Nominations for the 2025 NLADA Annual Conference Awards are now open!
Training is a key component of NLADA's mission to seek justice for all by providing high-quality, cost-efficient legal representation to low-income persons accused of crimes. An experienced and dynamic faculty, carefully selected for each program because of their professional expertise, conducts all of NLADA's trainings. Conferences offer innovations in technology and management techniques and strategies plus specific opportunities to sharpen trial, appellate, and training skills.
Past Events
Holistic Defense & Leadership Conferences
Nuts and Bolts: Leadership Reimagined
Appellate Defender Training
Life in the Balance Conference
New Defender Leadership Institute Conference
Defender Conferences and Training
October 29th, 2025
The NLADA Annual Conference is the premier skills-building and knowledge-sharing event for the civil legal aid, public defense, and public interest law communities.