Fw: Apply Now for the Fourth Annual Federal CJA Trial Skills Academy, April 22-27, 2012, San Diego, CA

[Carol McGuire <Carol_McGuire@fd.org>]

FYI.


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Carol J. McGuire, Administrative Officer
Federal Defender Office
Legal Aid & Defender Association, Inc.
613 Abbott Street, 5th Floor
Detroit, Michigan 48226
Direct Telephone:  (313) 967-5833
Fax: (313) 962-0685
E-Mail:  carol_mcguire@fd.org
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From:	Bob Burke/DCA/AO/USCOURTS@USCOURTS
To:	AOml_DS Defender, AOml_DS CJA Panel, AOml_FDO Panel Administrators
Cc:	AOml_DS Admin, Lori Green/DCA/AO/USCOURTS@USCOURTS, Karen W Holsendorff/DCA/AO/USCOURTS@USCOURTS, Jenna Shepard/DCA/AO/USCOURTS@USCOURTS
Date:	11/30/2011 09:19 AM
Subject:	Apply Now for the Fourth Annual Federal CJA Trial Skills Academy, April 22-27, 2012, San Diego, CA

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Last year, several attendees who brought
their own cases to the Office of Defender Services Training Branch's Annual
Federal CJA Trial Skills Academy (TSA) later reported getting not guilty
verdicts in those cases, and another had her case dismissed on competency
grounds. The TSA has been extremely well-received. TSA is scheduled for
April 22-27, 2012, and a draft agenda is attached. As with all of our programs,
there is no registration fee. TSA is open to both CJA panel attorneys and
federal public defender staff, but defender staff will make up no more
than 15-20% of the participants.  Please make the information about
this program available to your staff and CJA panel members.

The application period is now open for TSA,
put on in collaboration with the California Western School of Law, where
the academy takes place.  Persons can apply, through the Training
Branch web site, www.fd.org,
until February 22, 2012.  After that date, participants are chosen
for participation and will be notified by March 4, 2012 whether they have
been selected.  Participants are selected based upon trial experience
during the last few years, so upon initial registration, all registrants
are waitlisted and required to supply supplemental information on a form
attached to the application confirmation email.  No application
for TSA will be considered if a Supplemental Information Form is not submitted.
 

The event is a hands-on, skills practice
workshop in which participants work on one of their own cases. They learn
a process for the development of a persuasive, fact-based theory of the
case and the advocacy skills necessary to advance that theory during trial.
Among other subjects, presentations, demonstrations and small group work
will address brainstorming, storytelling,
development of theories and themes, and all
of the necessary trial advocacy skills.

Limited financial assistance for travel costs
is available to CJA panel attorneys. A
financial assistance application form is
also attached below and available at
www.fd.org.
The deadline to apply for financial assistance is February 3, 2012.

For substantive information about this event,
please contact Lori Green at
Lori_Green@ao.uscourts.gov. For logistical
information, please contact Jenna Shepard at Jenna_Shepard@ao.uscourts.gov.

Thanks and we look forward to another successful
Trial Skills Academy.

Bob



Bob Burke, Chief
Training Branch
Office of Defender Services 
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
One Columbus Circle, NE, Suite G-430
Washington, DC 20544
(202) 502-2914
(202) 502-2911 (fax)
Bob_Burke@ao.uscourts.gov

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