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NACDL’s 2025 Midwinter Seminar “Advanced Skills for Improving Your Advocacy and Expanding Your Practice” will provide you with the tools to invest in your career and law practice by bringing together seasoned trial attorneys to share a rich array of advanced strategies and tactics across multiple practice areas. Topics will cover advanced skills to help you with evidence, investigation, client relations, and will include presentations that will shed light on several areas of practice you may not be well-informed in, such as fraud, racketeering, parallel construction, E-Discovery, and more. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to share in the camaraderie of your fellow defense practitioners from across the country while expanding your legal portfolio. Whether you want to improve, refine, or enhance your skillset with new and up-and-coming areas of practice to generate more business, the advanced skills you will learn will be an invaluable investment in your practice going forward.
NOTE: Due to state CLE accreditation rules and requirements varying from state to state, we are unable to provide CLE credit for the Livestream.
Agenda
Be advised as a remote viewer, the program agenda and faculty are subject to change. ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN
| Thursday, February 27, 2025 | |
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| 8:15 am | Navigating the Evolution: Admitting Evidence in a Digital World – Melanie Foote (Frankfort, KY) |
| 9:15 am | Pre-Trial Practice: Discovering & Litigating Police and Prosecutor Misconduct in Criminal Trials – Deborah Levi (Pikesville, MD) |
| 10:15 am | Exhibits, Networking & Refreshment Break |
| 10:35 am | Defending Mortgage / Bank Fraud Cases & Challenging Loss Amount – Kevin A. Tate (Charlotte, NC and Las Vegas, NV) |
| 11:35 am | Cognitive Bias and High Stakes Legal Decision Making – Sonya Pfeiffer and David Rudolf (Charlotte, NC and Toronto, ON) |
| 12:35 pm | Lunch break on your own |
| 2:00 pm | Drilling Down: Hitting Pay Dirt Defenses in a DWI Case – Bill Powers (Charlotte, NC) |
| 2:50 pm | Through the Wire: Getting Ahead with Complex Drug Cases – Justin Rosas (Medford, OR) |
| 4:00 pm | Parallel Construction: A Defense Attorney's Guide to Discovering and Challenging Original Source Evidence in Criminal Investigations – Jessica N. Carmichael (Alexandria, VA) |
| 4:50 pm | The DIY of DNA – Bradley J. Bannon (Chapel Hill, NC) |
| 5:40 pm | Adjourn for the day |
| Friday, February 28, 2025 | |
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| 8:10 - 10:10 am | Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! The Nature, Detection, and Psychology of Deception – Dyke Huish (Mission Viejo, CA) |
| 10:30 am | Attacking & Defeating the Abusive Use of RICO – Drew Findling (Atlanta, GA) |
| 11:20 am | Ethically Using the Media to Your Strategic Advantage – Molly Parmer (Atlanta, GA) |
| 12:10 pm | Lunch break on your own |
| 1:40 pm | Developing Your Defense in a Sexual Assault Case – Kathleen Stilling (Brookfield, WI) |
| 2:30 pm | From Al Capone to Wesley Snipes: Defending a Criminal Tax Case – Justin Gelfand (Clayton, MO) |
| 3:20 pm | Exhibits, Networking & Refreshment Break |
| 3:40 pm | Advanced Strategies and Issues Involved in Representing a Youthful Offender – My’chael Jefferson-Reese (Chester, VA) and W. Geoffrey Tucker (Chesterfield, VA) |
| 4:30 pm | Leveraging Technology in Criminal Defense: Complex Discovery and Beyond – John Ellis (San Diego, CA) |
| 5:30 pm | Seminar Adjourns |
Faculty
Bradley J. Bannon (Chapel Hill, NC)
Jessica N. Carmichael (Alexandria, VA) *NACDL MEMBER
John Ellis (San Diego, CA) *NACDL MEMBER
Drew Findling (Atlanta, GA) *NACDL MEMBER
Melanie Foote (Frankfort, KY) *NACDL MEMBER
Justin K. Gelfand (Clayton, MO) *NACDL MEMBER
Dyke Huish (Mission Viejo, CA) *NACDL MEMBER
My’chael Jefferson-Reese (Chester, VA) *NACDL MEMBER
Deborah Levi (Pikesville, MD) *NACDL MEMBER
Molly Parmer (Atlanta, GA) *NACDL MEMBER
Sonya Pfeiffer (Charlotte, NC and Toronto, ON) *NACDL MEMBER
Bill Powers (Charlotte, NC)
Justin Rosas (Medford, OR) *NACDL MEMBER
David Rudolf (Charlotte, NC and Toronto, ON) *NACDL MEMBER
Kathleen Stilling (Brookfield, WI) *NACDL MEMBER
Kevin A. Tate (Charlotte, NC and Las Vegas, NV) *NACDL MEMBER
W. Geoffrey Tucker (Chesterfield, VA)
Pricing
Members of NACDL enjoy exclusive registration rates for our seminars.
| Registration Fees | |
|---|---|
| NACDL MEMBERS | $189 |
| Non-Members | $219 |
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