Making the Case For Life (2025)
Seminar starts on August 28th, 2025. Recordings will ship 3-4 weeks after the event.
Currently on Pre-Sale for 25% Off! Discount included in price - price will change on August 28th, 2025
Program Summary: This powerful, brand-new program features some of the nation’s most respected capital defenders, psychologists, mitigation specialists, and trial strategists—offering practical, high-impact techniques you can immediately apply to save your client’s life. You’ll learn how to build stronger, more persuasive mitigation stories using trauma-informed strategies, including how to incorporate adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), mental illness, autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual disability into your defense. Uncover how to humanize your client through compelling narratives, use of video, geographic context, and client-centered witness interviewing.
But this training doesn’t stop at storytelling—it also equips you to win at voir dire and jury selection. You’ll gain concrete strategies to uncover and challenge juror bias, especially regarding neurodivergence, mental illness, poverty, and violence exposure. Additional sessions explore post-conviction collaboration, end-stage litigation, and even the ethical use of AI in capital defense.
By the end of this program, you’ll be equipped to:
- Build more compelling mitigation cases rooted in science and empathy;
- Deliver more effective voir dire and identify dangerous juror bias;
- Strengthen your advocacy with cutting-edge strategies used by leading defenders;
- Improve client outcomes and elevate your effectiveness in the most serious cases.
Whether you’re new to capital litigation or a veteran looking to sharpen your skills, this seminar offers a comprehensive, results-driven toolkit to help you fight smarter and advocate with impact.
CLE Credit: Up to 14 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.
Presentations Included:
- Using ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) in Answering “How Did We Get Here?” | Dr. Adriana L. Flores
- Dangerous Minds: Combating the Fear of Mental Illness in the Defense | Eric J. Davis
- Current Ways of Thinking About Trauma and How to Inform Our Narrative, Our Work with Clients and Witnesses, and Our Presentation | Susan Marcus
- ASD: Why it Matters to Culpability and to Mitigation | Doug Passon
- Working with Post-Conviction Counsel | Lindsey Vann
- Witness Interviewing | Susan Marcus
- Using Video in Storytelling for Mitigation | Doug Passon
- End Stage Litigation/Executions | Lindsey Vann
- Leveraging AI in Capital Cases: Practical Strategies and Ethical Considerations for Better Advocacy | Felix Valenzuela
- The Why of Where: Considering the Role of Place in Mitigation | Dr. Julie Urbanik
- Video Games, Discord, and Online Communities | Max Rudy
- Capital Voir Dire | Vivian Hernandez
- Challenging the Jury Pool | Jeffrey Martin
- Testing for Intellectual Disability: The When, the How, and the What | Dr. Dale G. Watson, Ph.D.
Prices
- List Price $150.00
- Member Price $150.00