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Faculty for Advance Advocacy Track Faculty for Appellate Skills Writing Track Logistics |
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APPELLATE DEFENDER TRAINING
Le Pavillon Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana January 21 - 25, 2010
Conference OverviewNLADA’s Appellate Defender Training (ADT) is an intensive multi-day skills development program for appellate public defenders (including contract and assigned counsel defenders) practicing in both the state and federal system appellate courts. ADT uses a “learning by doing” teaching methodology: participants will bring their own case files to work on during the program, and they will be asked to apply the practice methods presented through ADT plenary presentations and materials to their case. With the assistance of expert faculty, participants will analyze fact and law issues, develop case theories and themes, and incorporate them into their brief or writ drafting. ADT is the only national appellate defender conference where participants work on their own cases, not just hypothetical problems.
Participants in the Appellate Skills Writing Track will thoroughly analyze the facts of their cases, develop comprehensive theories of defense with supporting themes, create persuasive story lines to forward their theories and themes, and begin to effectively write their briefs. The Appellate Skills Writing Track will consist of 6 sections: 3 specialized small groups – a Federal Appellate Defender Small Group, an Appellate Delinquency Small Group and an Advanced Writing Small Group – and 3 General Appellate Skills Small Groups. There is no minimum experience level for participants for the General Appellate Skills, Federal Appellate, and Juvenile Delinquency Appellate Small Groups. However, participants taking part in the Advanced Writing Small Group, which is intended for intermediate and more experienced appellate defenders, must have at least five years of experience handling state and/or federal appeals and have previously attended NLADA’s Appellate Defender Program or similar appellate training program.
The goal of the Advanced Advocacy Track is to provide support and training for state and federal public defenders who wish to produce substantially better written and more polished writs of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. Experienced appellate defenders will learn the “nuts and bolts” of issue analysis, substantive law issues and procedural rulings from the most recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, developing theory and themes, and drafting techniques for “winning” writs. Attorneys attending the Advanced Advocacy Track will use either an unsuccessful writ that was considered by their state Supreme Court or the Circuit Court of Appeals or a case that is being targeted for a possible writ to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Advanced Advocacy Track consists of 2 sections. Participants will work in a small group setting with experienced attorney facilitators to write and polish the case files they bring to the program and will argue to a “judicial panel” of their peers why their writ should be accepted by the Supreme Court. Participants of the Advanced Advocacy Track should have at least 8 years complex appellate advocacy experience.
CurriculumThe 2010 Appellate Defender Training consists of group plenary sessions in which faculty and participants work together on the program model or case file to demonstrate appellate skills and techniques and small group workshops in which the participants work on their individual cases with two experienced faculty members using the skills and techniques learned in the plenary session. The curriculum also includes a one hour interactive presentation on appellate ethics. This year’s program will feature two concurrent tracks: the kills Writing Track and the Advanced Advocacy Track.
Key Benefits
Preparation for the ConferencePrior to attending the program all participants must bring 12 copies of a one page, typed factual summary of the case upon which they will be working during the training. For the Appellate Skills Writing track, the case should be a direct appeal of a felony or misdemeanor conviction; however, it must not be a case in which the participant has already written the brief. For the Advanced Advocacy Track the case should be either an unsuccessful writ that was considered by their state Supreme Court or the Circuit Court of Appeals or a case that is being targeted for a possible writ to the U.S. Supreme Court. Participants should read the trial transcript and record of the case in advance of the training and bring summaries of any expert or other specialized testimony. Copies of factual summaries and other materials cannot be made at the training site. |
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