March 25-28, 2010, Denver, Colorado


3/26/2010 to 3/27/2010

April 25-30, 2010 San Diego, CA

The inaugural skills-based Academy was a tremendous success. This program focuses on: (1) the use of a trial advocacy process to facilitate development of a persuasive, fact-based theory and supporting themes, and (2) the advocacy skills necessary to persuasively advance that theory and those themes. The program is conducted by very experienced and skilled faculty as a series of plenary sessions and workshops. The elements of effective litigation advocacy skills are presented in the plenaries and participants then engage in hands-on practice of those skills and receive feedback in small group workshops. Participation is limited to 50 attendees.
4/25/2010 to 4/30/2010

2010 CSA and ACSA Annual Training Conference

4/26/2010 to 4/30/2010

Tenth Circuit Federal Capital Habeas Corpus Seminar

May 13-15, 2010**Tulsa, Oklahoma

This program will focus on representation in federal capital habeas corpus cases. Presentations will cover an overview of federal capital habeas corpus litigation, the ABA Death Penalty and Mitigation Guidelines, Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), funding and resources, investigation, factual and legal development and presentation of claims, the use of mitigation and mental health experts, and substantive and procedural federal capital habeas corpus jurisprudence, including the impact of Oklahoma’s state post-conviction statute on federal capital habeas cases. The program will also have sessions addressing the impact of recent and currently pending Supreme Court decisions on federal capital post-conviction practice.
5/13/2010 to 5/15/2010

WINNING STRATEGIES SEMINAR

June 17-19, 2010 Chicago, IL

Drawing its faculty from the ranks of federal judges, defenders and practitioners, Winning Strategies presents legal techniques for use in securing pretrial, trial, sentencing and appellate relief in a wide variety of federal cases. The seminar will employ both plenary and break-out instructional sessions to present “nuts and bolts” defenses to firearms, drugs, child pornography and immigration prosecutions – as well as to present defenses to more novel prosecutions such as mortgage fraud, identity-theft, etc. Importantly, Winning Strategies provides important guidance and insights concerning the new Post-Booker sentencing landscape now facing federal defense attorneys. Participants will receive analysis of the Supreme Court’s recent criminal law decisions and insights into that Court’s pending criminal cases. They will also hear forecasts from the Sentencing Resource Counsel’s representatives on proposed guideline amendments and will learn strategies to better advocate for – and achieve – just sentences.
6/17/2010 to 6/19/2010