Please be advised that registration for all Training Division Events is limited to persons who provide services pursuant to the Federal Criminal Justice Act (CJA). For more information please read our Training Events Registration Disclaimer.
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Trial Skills Workshop II: Advocacy Strategies & Skills To Maximize Use Of Experts
Please be advised that this event has been cancelled.
The Trial Skills Workshops are two and a half day programs that center upon specific components of criminal trial litigation. This first iteration focuses on expert testimony and is the same workshop that we hosted in January. We will not offer this particular workshop again in 2020. The skills targeted include: (1) Identifying & screening experts to support the theory of the case and qualifying the experts to testify; (2) Recognizing the signs of mental illness, hiring the best expert to consult and maybe testify, and considering how mental illness might impact litigation strategy; (3) Effective use of the Federal Rules of Evidence to make sure that your experts are qualified and the reports and documents that further your theory are admitted into the record; (4) Advanced theme-based cross examination of the government’s expert witnesses; and (5) Preparation of defense expert witnesses and advanced direct examination and understanding how to navigate the direct examination of a “hostile” witness. An experienced and skilled faculty will lead this program. Elements of effective litigation advocacy skills will be presented in the plenary sessions and demos. Participants will practice those skills and receive feedback in small group sessions.
Opportunity to work on your own case: Participants may bring their own case to TSWII for use in some or all of the workshop sessions, provided that the case contains one of the following issues: mental health, toolmark/prints/DNA issues related to guns, and cell site location information (CSLI).
Attendance at this program is limited and requires an application which will be made available when registration opens. Accepted applicants will be notified in advance.
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National Litigation Support Team (NLST) Webinar: Managing and Reviewing Electronic Discovery
The National Litigation Support Team is a resource for both CJA Panel Attorneys and Federal Defender Offices across the country. This webinar will address common problems CJA Panel Attorneys are facing with managing and reviewing electronic discovery and the strategies Panel Attorneys are using to solve them. In addition to discussing litigation support technology, this session will describe the resources available to Panel Attorneys to help alleviate the daunting feeling one can get when they are told that gigabytes of information will soon arrive. Whether the challenge involves volume, format or the need to collaborate with others, the information in this webinar will assist Panel Attorneys in determining strategies and solutions for their next case.
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National Litigation Support Team (NLST) Webinar: Managing and Reviewing Electronic Discovery (Live Repeat)
The National Litigation Support Team is a resource for both CJA Panel Attorneys and Federal Defender Offices across the country. This webinar will address common problems CJA Panel Attorneys are facing with managing and reviewing electronic discovery and the strategies Panel Attorneys are using to solve them. In addition to discussing litigation support technology, this session will describe the resources available to Panel Attorneys to help alleviate the daunting feeling one can get when they are told that gigabytes of information will soon arrive. Whether the challenge involves volume, format or the need to collaborate with others, the information in this webinar will assist Panel Attorneys in determining strategies and solutions for their next case.
12 - 14
Federal Defender Investigator and Paralegal Seminar
This two-and-a-half-day program will cover a wide range of criminal defense topics specifically targeted toward investigators and paralegals, who work at the federal level. A mix of plenary and concurrent breakout sessions will address areas such as sentencing mitigation, mental health, document management and analysis, online investigation, BOP issues and offense-specific tips for building a defense in a variety of federal cases. Additionally, the seminar will include presentations focused on other issues relevant for mitigation specialists, social workers, interpreters and bi-lingual staff.
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Trial Skills Workshop III - Crimes Decoded: Emerging Digital Technology Litigation Strategies
Trial Skills Workshop III focuses on Litigation Strategies for Emerging Digital Technology’s impact on Criminal Cases. This iteration in our Trial Skills Workshop series explores the intersection of digital technology and criminal investigations. We aim to increase understanding and inspire CJA lawyers and Federal Public Defenders to think innovatively about how to litigate issues surrounding the digital technology that increasingly permeates our cases. We want to build lawyers’ confidence to use traditional advocacy skills with a new understanding of the vulnerability of the technology that the government relies on. Although criminal investigations are changing by using artificial intelligence-based decision making, the same skills and questions we have always utilized in criminal defense work can be adapted to emerging digital technology today. This workshop will “decode” the technology and increase your advocacy skills. The program is a skills-based workshop. The expectation is that participants spend much of the workshop on their feet practicing their advocacy skills. The skills learned are not limited to the trial setting; they are geared toward other hearings like bail hearings, evidentiary hearings, Daubert and SR violation hearings. Participants are divided into small groups to practice the skills necessary to effectively exclude, explain, and/or persuade a Judge or Jury about the technology utilized. Lectures and demonstrations of these skills supplement and inform the small group workshops.
Attendance will be capped at 70 participants, and each participant must apply to be accepted to the program. Completed applications will be reviewed in the order they are received.
Registration will open in late Spring.