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Videos:

Substance Use Disorders 101 & Implications for Criminal Defense Practice (Lisa Newman-Polk)

 

What is the Harm Reduction Approach and What Does it Mean for Defense Lawyers (Kate Boulton)

 

Telling the Story of Addiction at Trial (Bridget Krause) - **Available on TalentLMS only**

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Presenters & Panelists

Kate Boulton, JD, MPH, is a legal and public health professional and currently Senior Legal Technical Advisor to the Vital Strategies Overdose Prevention Program. Working in this role since 2018, she focuses on addressing legal and policy barriers to harm reduction and promoting evidence-based overdose prevention strategies. Prior to joining Vital Strategies, Kate worked as a Staff Attorney at the Center for HIV Law and Policy, and she served with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2007-2012. Kate earned her JD from Harvard Law School and her Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan.

Bridget Krause, Esq. is the Deputy Trial Division Director at the Wisconsin State Public Defender office. Bridget began her practice there in 2000; she briefly left the Public Defender’s Office for two years to work in private criminal defense, then rejoined the Milwaukee Public Defender’s Office as an Attorney Manager. Bridget has extensive experience in trying homicides and other complex cases; she worked with younger attorneys to increase the litigation in the Milwaukee Trial Office and brainstorm motion and trial issues. She also set up training in the Milwaukee Trials Office for new attorneys and experienced attorneys.

Bridget is on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College and has taught at seminars and trial skills programs for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and numerous state and county defender programs. She was an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School starting in 2009 where she taught the criminal defense clinic for several years.

Lisa Newman-Polk, Esq. LCSW, is a lawyer and social worker in private practice. She is a former public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) in Massachusetts, where she worked in the district, superior, and drug courts. In the middle of her legal career, she pursued a Masters in Social Work and worked as an outpatient therapist providing addiction treatment to men and women on probation and parole, and then as a mental health clinician at the men’s maximum security prison in MA. Today her law practice focuses on representing juvenile lifers at parole hearings and special litigation in criminal cases involving drug addiction.

Lisa received national attention for the case, Commonwealth v. Eldred, 280 Mass. 90 (2018) in which she argued that it is unconstitutional to order a probationer with substance use disorder to be drug-free and then incarcerate the person for relapse. In the wake of the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision rejecting Lisa’s argument, she initiated currently pending legislation in MA that would prevent the courts from incarcerating a probationer for relapse if the person is engaged in treatment. Lisa co-wrote an amicus brief on behalf of CPCS in support of the defendant in Commonwealth v. Carrillo (oral argument Feb. 2018), who was convicted of drug distribution and involuntary manslaughter after buying heroin for his friend.

Based on her experiences as a clinician and public defender, Lisa is an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform as it relates to the “war on drugs” and prison conditions, and for reentry services that focus on holistic wellness, including healing from trauma and addiction. Lisa served on he Board of Directors for MA Prisoners’ Legal Services for 7 years and is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers. She has a B.A. from Columbia University, a J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law, and an M.S.W. from Boston College.

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