• Providing a forum for defender trainers and professionals with related responsibilities to keep up to date on legal developments, teaching tools and techniques and obtain other training-related assistance; and

• Facilitating life-long learning among defender practitioners.

Biennially, the Section sponsors Train the Trainers, a skills-based training conference in which participants develop expertise while working on their particular training issues in small groups. A Trainers Section listserv facilitates the exchange of information and ideas among a large national network of training professionals.

Section Co-chairs:
Phyllis Subin
Jeff Sherr

Staff Liaison: Karl Doss