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2024 DWI Means Defend With Ingenuity Seminar: Successful Strategies from the Masters of DUI Defense

NCDD Seminars and Sessions

September 18, 2024 - September 21, 2024

NACDL & NCDD's 2024 Annual Seminar "DWI Means Defend With Ingenuity" Seminar "Successful Strategies from Masters of DUI Defense" will be held September 18-21, 2024 at Planet Hollywood Hotel in Las Vegas, NV.

If you are serious about being an effective DUI defense advocate, or if you're considering adding DUI defenses to your firms portfolio, you need to know the latest scientific and legal strategies to optimize your success at trial. Join your nationwide colleagues in Las Vegas to learn from the best-of-the-best, and take advantage of the unique opportunity to network, mingle, and establish a reciprocal referral base with over 600 of your colleagues from around the country. There is no better opportunity to confer and learn from your peers!

This one-of-a-kind CLE program is held in the mornings only, and consists of one day of general plenary session presentations, one day of split tracks for you to choose from, and one day with your choice of multiple workshops for small group, intense, and focused learning in the areas you need the most help. Whether you are a seasoned criminal defense practitioner, or just getting started and needing to learn the ropes, THIS IS THE NATIONAL GATHERING YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS!

Hotel Information: Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

3:00p.m.–6:00p.m.Early Registration, Exhibit Hall Open

SEMINAR DAY ONE – Thursday, September 19, 2024

TimeEvent DescriptionGuest Speaker
7:30a.m.-8:30a.m.Registration, Exhibits, and Continental Breakfast
8:30a.m.–8:50a.m.Welcome, Introductions, AnnouncementsDUI Program Chair Steve Oberman, NCDD Dean Mimi Coffey & NACDL President Christopher A. Wellborn
8:50a.m. – 9:50a.m.2023 SFST Manual: Common Practice ErrorsAnthony Palacios
9:50a.m. – 10:50a.m.Putting the Confrontation Clause on Trial: Getting the Cross-Examination You NeedJoseph P. St. Louis
10:50a.m. – 11:10a.m.Refreshment, Exhibitor & Networking Break
11:10a.m. – 12:10p.m.Handcuffing the Blood Technician With Good Science and Jurors ValuesFrancisco Duarte
12:10p.m. – 1:10p.m.Your Guide to All Things AppealMichelle Behan
1:10p.m.DUI Seminar Adjourns for the Day
6:30pm.Opening ReceptionPlanet Hollywood Hotel

SEMINAR DAY TWO – Friday, September 20, 2024

TimeEvent DescriptionGuest Speaker
7:30a.m. – 8:00a.m.Registration, Exhibits & Continental Breakfast
8:00a.m. – 9:00a.m.Networking Tables: Network with other DUI lawyers on issues of interest over coffee and breakfast
9:00a.m. – 9:05a.m.Plenary Session Begins: Remarks and RemindersSteve Oberman
9:05a.m. – 10:05a.m.Select a Track
Option AClosing to Win-The Keys to Delivering a Powerful SummationJonathan Cohn
Option BNeanderthal Law-Dragging Your Practice into the FutureBruce Edge
10:05a.m. – 11:05a.m.Select a Track
Option ANHTSA’s ARIDE v. DRE: The Truths, the Myths, and Everything In BetweenAnthony Palacios
Option BBreath TestingBell Island
11:05a.m. – 11:25a.m.Refreshment, Exhibitor & Networking Break
11:25a.m. – 12:25p.m.Select a Track
Option AShot Across the Bow-Using the Administrative License Suspension Hearing to Change the Course of Your CaseJohn Webb
Option BJudges Gone Wild!! Judicial Ethics, Refusals & DisqualificationsJohn Hunsucker
12:25p.m. – 1:25p.m.Select a Track
Option AOver the Limit & Off the Hook: Beating Test Results at TrialAdam Nero
Option BThe “Hollywood Squares” Style Ethical ExperienceMimi Coffey
1:25p.m.DUI Seminar Adjourns for the Day

SEMINAR DAY THREE – Saturday, September 21, 2024

TimeEvent DescriptionGuest Speaker
7:30a.m. – 8:10a.m.Registration, Exhibits & Continental Breakfast
8:10a.m. – 9:30a.m.Workshops (Select from Options Below)
1Trying Your First DUI Case (Less than 5 Years’ Experience)John Webb
2Winning With the Law: DUI Case Law UpdateDon Ramsell
3Crossing the FST Officer: Learn to Control, Confront, and ContradictSteve Oberman & Tony Palacios
4The NHTSA SFSTs: Learning the BasicsMichelle Behan
5Crossing the Blood TechVirginia Landry
6Summations WorkshopJonathan Cohn
7Crossing the Breath Test OperatorBell Island
9:30a.m. – 9:50a.m.Refreshment, Exhibitor and Networking Break
9:50a.m. – 11:10a.m.Workshops (Select from Options Below)
1Trying Your First DUI Case (Less than 5 years’ experience)John Webb
2Winning With the Law: DUI Case Law UpdateDon Ramsell
3Crossing the FST Officer: Learn to Control, Confront, and ContradictSteve Oberman & Tony Palacios
4The NHTSA SFSTs: Learning the BasicsMichelle Behan
5Crossing the Blood TechVirginia Landry
6Summations WorkshopJohnathan Cohn
7Crossing the Breath Test OperatorBell Island
11:10a.m.DUI Seminar Adjourns Until October 22-25, 2025, at our NEW LOCATION: Sahara Las Vegas!
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