Justice for the Poor: Helping our Clients Navigate the Justice System (5 CLE Credits Available)

The Criminal Justice Honors Program at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School

presents

Justice for the Poor: Helping our Clients Navigate the Justice System

(A CLE Program Designed for Public Defenders and Defense Attorneys)

The Criminal Justice Honors Program prepares students to become practitioners in the criminal justice arena. The Law School partners with public defender and prosecutor offices to prepare the advocates needed to help build and maintain a criminal justice system committed to the principles of fairness and equal treatment. This event is designed to introduce both public defenders and defense attorneys to the Honors Program as well as provide insight into some current criminal justice issues.

The sessions are informed by the Honors Program curriculum and presented by some of the faculty who teach in it. Participants in the event are eligible to receive 5 CLE credits upon completion (3 Trial, 1 Ethics, and 1 Professionalism).

9:00-9:10                       Welcome (Dean Malcolm L. Morris)

9:10-9:30                       Building Better Public Defenders: Overview of Criminal Justice (Professor Jonathan Rapping)

9:30-10:30                     Putting Recent Criminal Procedure Cases to Practice (Professor Suparna Malempati)

10:30-10:45                   Break

10:45 – 11:45                Finding Purpose in Our Work: Using Storytelling and Persuasion Techniques to Give Voice to Our Clients (Professor Jonathan Rapping)

11:45-12:30                   Lunch

12:30-1:30                     Getting the Information You Need: Brady, Statutory Discovery, and Other Tools (Professor Judith Barger)

1:45-2:00                        Break

2:00-3:00                       Ethics and Client-Centered Representation (Professor Jonathan Rapping)

3:00-3:15                       Break

3:15-4:15                       Evidence For the Public Defender: A Practical Look at the Law of Evidence (Professor B. Michael Mears)

4:15-4:30                       Public Defenders and Criminal Justice Reform: Wrapping Up

The program is free for attendees who elect not to receive CLE credit and $35 for those who wish to receive 5 CLE credits for their attendance at the entire event. Your RSVP will be accepted below.

Please note that we can no longer accept requests and/or payments for the optional catered lunch. We encourage you to make substitute lunch arrangements.

Payment for CLE credits will be accepted until November 18, 2016. Those who do not pay in full by that date will not be eligible to receive CLE credits in exchange for their attendance.