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Conference Information

Check back in November for
the 2009 conference overview!

Conference Overview 2008

NLADA's Life in the Balance conference brings together mitigation specialists, defense investigators, and capital defense attorneys from around the nation to improve their skills and techniques in all aspects of death penalty defense. Seminars are offered on the latest scientific, medical and psychiatric developments in capital cases; on the most recent developments in the law; and on a wide range of creative trial strategies and tactics. The conference also offers several "discuss your own case" seminars, in which participants will be able to brainstorm the problems and issues of their own real cases, with some of the leading death penalty specialists in the country. Beyond an excellent learning environment, the conference gives participants an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with other attorneys and mitigation specialists from around the nation.

Life in the Balance will improve your ability to:

  • Skillfully and thoroughly investigate your client's case;
  • Understand and use the latest scientific and medical knowledge to help your clients at the guilt and mitigation phases;
  • Understand and use the most recent legal developments to obtain favorable evidentiary and procedural rulings at all stages of a capital case; and
  • Tell your client's story in a way that will persuade juries and judges to return the verdict you are seeking.

Who Should Attend

Participants must be involved in the defense of persons accused in criminal cases. The materials and information provided at Life in the Balance are confidential and may not be disclosed except to other defense practitioners.

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