Each year, thousands of civil legal aid and indigent defense professionals attend NLADA's nationally acclaimed educational training programs conferences. Our training agenda promotes excellence in the delivery of all aspects of legal services for attorneys representing the low-income community in America.

• Affordable
• High Quality
• Fulfill CLE Requirements
• Keep Abreast of Substantive & Policy Trends
• Network & Exchange Ideas with Colleagues

For Civil Legal Aid Advocates, NLADA offers:

• The Substantive Law Conference, the nation's most comprehensive training in poverty law and trends for advocates in an array of specialty areas;
• The Litigation and Advocacy Directors Conference for advocacy leaders and managers;
• Civil Impact Leadership, for those interested in developing leadership skills;
• The Equal Justice Conference, presented in partnership with the American Bar Association, for advocates who work in many sectors of the equal justice community legal aid programs, pro bono projects and practitioners, court-annexed pro se clinics, law school clinicians, hotline providers and others.

For Public Defense Professionals, NLADA offers:

• Life in the Balance, providing skills, strategies and science for defenders and mitigation specialists in capital cases;
• The National Defender Leadership Institute for leaders and managers of defender offices and assigned counsel programs;
• The Appellate Defender Training for indigent defense practitioners.
• The DIP National Immigration Consequences Training, a must for all persons involved in immigration law.

For both Public Defenders & Legal Aid attorneys, NLADA offers:

• Train the Trainers program for all persons interested in adult learning techniques.