Making the Case for Life (2022)
CLE Credit: Up to 12 hours of self-study CLE credits. Please confirm with your state's CLE commission to ensure this program is available for self-study CLE certification.
Program Summary: Make the case .... for your client's life with NACDL's Annual Making the Case for Life Seminar. This program is designed to help capital defenders, investigators, and mitigation specialists. This in-demand program contains cutting-edge presentations regarding pretrial investigations, capital jury selection, new perspectives on discovering the story of the client and mitigation evidence. You will learn from seasoned capital trial lawyers, nationally-known law professors, and jury consultants, who will offer their personal perspectives, advice, and proven strategies for making the best case for life. If you are handling or may handle a case in which your client is facing the death penalty, then this is a must-see program for you!
Presentations Included:
1. How the Criminal Legal System & the Courts Fail to Administer the Death Penalty Fairly & Effectively | Sister Helen Prejean
2. Avenues to Explore When You Think You Don't Have Any Possible Mitigation | Salima Pirmohamed
3. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love McCoy v. Louisiana: How it Impacts our Practice and the Ethical Considerations for Capital Defenders | Richard Bourke
4. Skipper Investigations and Presentation: Adapting to Jail and Prison Neighborhoods | Mark Donatelli
5. Race Trauma & Mental Health as Part of Our Clients' Stories | Maurie Levin
6. The Most Important Skill of a Capital Defense Attorney is Not What You Think | Marc Bookman
7. Race-Based Traumatic Stress: Potential Implications for Mitigation | Dr. Robert Carter
8. Storyboarding, Storytelling, and Persuasion | Christopher Adams and Marc Bookman
9. Mitigation in Capital Cases: Revealing the Rest of the Story | Emily Hughes
10. Understanding the Capital Juror from the Inside Out | Scott Sundby
11. The Morgan Method of Jury Selection - A Primer | Richard Jaffe
12. Using a Narrator: One Voice is All Your Client Needs | William O. "Bill" James, Jr.
13. Penalty Phase Closing Arguments | Stephen Bright
Order by Mail or Fax by downloading a PDF order form. Call (202) 465-7661 to order by phone!
Prices
- List Price $225.00
- Member Price $200.00