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CDAM 2009 Fall Conference

  • November 05, 2009
  • 08:30 AM
  • November 07, 2009
  • 01:00 PM
  • Park Place Hotel, Traverse City, Michigan

Registration

  • AS a benefit of being a CDAM member, you are eligible for a discounted rate to the conference if paid prior to the November 5, 2009. Thank you for your continued support. IF YOUR MEMBERSHIP STATUS HAS LAPSED, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO RENEW OR PAY THE NONMEMBER FEE.
  • Thank you for registering for the CDAM conference. Amount: $125 IF YOU ARE A CURRENT CDAM MEMBER, PLEASE LOG IN TO REGISTER WITH THE CDAM MEMBER FEE RATE (UP TO NOV 5, 2009).
CDAM 2009 Fall Conference

Download Full Conference Brochure and Registration Form
THURSDAY – November 5, 2009

9:30 - 5:30    A is for Attorney

James R. Samuels, Big Rapids
Lisa Kirsch Satawa, Southfield

10:00 - 1:00    Web-Based Research Skill Development and Technology Training

2:30 - 6:30     Small Group Trial Practice Workshop

3:00 - 6:00    Web-Based Research Skill Development & Technology Training
        Repeat session

4:00 – 6:00    Federal Practice Session

4:00 - 6:00    The Nuts and Bolts of Delinquency Proceedings

4:00 - 6:00    Appellate Practice


FRIDAY – November 6, 2009

7:30 a.m.    Registration

9:00 - 11:00    Communication Arts for the Professional

11:00 - 11:15    Break

11:15 - 12:00    Communication Arts for the Professional       


12:00 - 1:00    Group Luncheon OR Lunchtime Hot Tips and Topics                                 


1:00 – 1:15    Public Defense and Criminal Defense Community Updates   


1:15 – 3:15    Fibs, Facts, and Fantasies:  Evaluating the Testimony of  the Child and Of the Expert Witness


3:15 – 3:30     Break

3:30 – 4:30    Finding and Working With Expert Witnesses; Indigent Defense

4:30 – 5:00    Life Without Parole For Juveniles. 

5:00 – 5:30    Hot Tips From The Trenches

5:30         Reception and Cornucopia Drawing


SATURDAY – November 7, 2009


9:00 - 9:45    Recent Developments in Michigan Criminal Law

9:45 - 10:45    COMPAS and Risk Assessment Instruments

10:45 - 11:00    Break

11:00 – 12:00    COMPAS and Risk Assessment Instruments
                         (continued)

12:00 – 12:45    Michigan Sentencing Guidelines
                   


ON THE PAGE v IN PERSON

Friday, November 6

1 pm - 3 pm   and   3:15 - 5:15 pm

Whether you are addressing the judge or jurors directly, or reaching them through dialogue with a witness, your power of persuasion in the courtroom depends upon your ability to communicate effectively – off the page, in person.  Joshua Karton, President of Communication Arts for the Professional, specializes in how to apply the personal communication skills of theatre/film/television to the art of trial advocacy.  What are the specific skills (neither gimmicks nor tricks) of director, actor, playwright and screenwriter, that vault oral argument off the yellow pad and into the hearts and minds of jurors?

Attendees of the CDAM Fall Conference 2009 are invited to (1) a participatory non-lecture presentation, and (2) two follow-up tutorial workshops focusing on:

(a)    achieving personal, one-to-one connection with jurors;
(b)    Humanizing the client;
(c)    Discovering story structure/story-telling strategies;
(d)    Presenting a person, not a lawyer; and
(e)    Transforming stage fight into stage presence.

Enrollment for each follow-up workshop/skills laboratory is limited to 25 ppl.






 
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