Take it to the Bank! Advanced Skills for Improving Your Advocacy (2025)
Program Summary: Take your defense practice to the next level with this exclusive brand-new CLE program, featuring insights from seasoned trial attorneys and legal experts across multiple high-stakes practice areas. This comprehensive program dives deep into advanced litigation tactics, cutting-edge legal developments, and strategies to grow your practice. This program delivers actionable skills and insights that can make a real difference in your case outcomes. With today’s rapidly changing legal landscape, staying ahead means mastering emerging challenges like digital evidence, forensic science, and constitutional violations in modern policing. These expert-led sessions will provide practical strategies that you can immediately apply to strengthen your advocacy and better protect your clients.
What You’ll Learn:
- Navigating the Evolution of Digital Evidence – Learn how courts are applying old laws to new technology, including social media tracking, AI-driven evidence analysis, and digital privacy challenges.
- Uncovering Police & Prosecutorial Misconduct – Master the techniques to discover, litigate, and leverage misconduct in criminal trials, using key precedents from Brady, Giglio, and Kyles v. Whitley.
- Defending Complex Fraud Cases – Explore strategies for challenging loss amounts, forensic financial investigations, and evolving sentencing guidelines in mortgage and bank fraud cases.
- Cognitive Bias & Legal Decision-Making – Understand how bias influences trials, juror perception, and prosecutorial misconduct, with real-life case studies, including insights from The Staircase trial.
- Defending High-Stakes Drug Cases – Gain insider knowledge on wiretap cases, conspiracy charges, and leveraging weaknesses in government investigations.
- Parallel Construction & Hidden Government Surveillance – Learn how law enforcement conceals unlawful surveillance practices and how to expose them to protect your client’s rights.
- DUI & Forensic Science in the Courtroom – Challenge the reliability of field sobriety tests, breathalyzers, and blood alcohol testing with science-backed defense strategies.
- The DIY of DNA – Unpack the science of forensic DNA evidence, its limitations, and how to challenge wrongful convictions based on flawed testing.
This is more than just a CLE program—it’s an investment in your career, giving you the knowledge and skills to win more cases, attract more clients, and stay ahead of the evolving legal landscape.
Get instant access today and start mastering the advanced skills that will transform your defense practice.
CLE Credit: Up to 14.50 hours of self-study CLE credits; where authorized. Please confirm with your state's CLE commission to ensure this program is available for self-study CLE certification.
Program Agenda:
- Navigating the Evolution: Admitting Evidence in a Digital World – Melanie Foote
- Defending Mortgage / Bank Fraud Cases & Challenging Loss Amount – Kevin A. Tate
- Cognitive Bias and High-Stakes Legal Decision Making – Sonya Pfeiffer & David Rudolf
- Drilling Down: Hitting Pay Dirt Defenses in a DWI Case – Bill Powers
- Through the Wire: Getting Ahead with Complex Drug Cases – Justin Rosas
- Parallel Construction: A Defense Attorney’s Guide to Discovering and Challenging Original Source Evidence – Jessica N. Carmichael
- The DIY of DNA – Bradley J. Bannon
- Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! The Nature, Detection, and Psychology of Deception – Dyke Huish
- Attacking & Defeating the Abusive Use of RICO – Drew Findling
- Ethically Using the Media to Your Strategic Advantage – Molly Parmer
- Developing Your Defense in a Sexual Assault Case – Kathleen Stilling
- From Al Capone to Wesley Snipes: Defending a Criminal Tax Case – Justin Gelfand
- Advanced Strategies and Issues Involved in Representing a Youthful Offender – My’chael Jefferson-Reese & W. Geoffrey Tucker
- Leveraging Technology in Criminal Defense: Complex Discovery and Beyond – John Ellis
Prices
- List Price $225.00
- Member Price $199.00