CJA Training Materials

Trainings

2024
August 2024 : Nuts and Bolts - An Overview of Federal Defense Practice

2023
January 2023 - First Friday: Stinson/Kisor Challenges to Guidelines Commentary : Lisa Ma and Todd Borden
March 2023 - First Friday: BOP - Pulling Back the Curtain : Jeff Carson
April 2023 - First Friday: Sentecing Videos : Gail Shiffman
May 2023 - First Friday: Basics of Blockchain & Defendeing Crypto Cases : Michele Neitz
July 14, 2023 - First Friday: Sentencing Guidelines Updates : Jenya Parkman and Todd Borden

2022
March 4, 2022 - Trauma Informed Advocacy : Rachelle Danielle Veasley
May 13, 2022 - Psychology of Child Ponography Possessors : Alex Rodrigues
August 5, 2022 - Challenging Eyewitness Identification : Anton Robinson
December 5, 2022 - Mental Health and Mitigation Interviewing : Gwendolyn Allen

2021
January 8, 2021 - Identifying Clients Living with Mental Illness : Dr. Sarah Vinson
February 5, 2021 - Challenging 4th Amendment Issues with a Focus on Race and Statistics : Andre Vitale
March 5, 2021 - Representing the LGBTQ Client : Aaron El Sabrout (Black and Pink, Inc.), Gabrielle Antolovich (Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center)
May 7, 2021 - Drug Cases Resulting in Death : Jennifer Friedman and Callie Steele
May 13, 2021- Mitigation and Institutional Failure : Shelley Sandusky
June 2021 - Sentencing Mitigation Videos : Foongy Lee and Vicki Piontkowski
July 2021 - Race and Culture in Criminal Case : Twyla Carter (Co-Presented with the NDCAL Racial Justice Working Group)
July 23, 2021 - Federal Public Defender/County Public Defender Huddle
August 5, 2021 - CJA Tier 2 - Nuts & Bolts : Candis Mitchell, Geoff Hansen, Jodi Linker
August 6, 2021 - Incorporating Statistics into Criminal Defense : Lisa Tarasyuk
August 19, 2021 - CJA Tier 2 - Sentencing : Jodi Linker and Daniel Blank
September 10, 2021 - First Friday: Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession: Prevention, Detection, and Treatment : David Mann
October 1, 2021 - First Friday: Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit Update : Ed Swanson and Prof. Wesiberg
November 5, 2021 - First Friday: Mental Health Treatment in the District for our Clients : Jeff Borenstein, Kara Janssen, Jennifer James

2020
March 24, 2020 - Biometrics, The Fourth, And The Fifth: Constitutional Implications Of Face Scan And Fingerprint Recognition Technologies : Hanni Fakhoury
March 26, 2020 - Covid-19 Litigation: First Report From The Western Front : Carmen Smarandoiu, Miles Pope, And Brianna Mircheff
March 31, 2020 - Rage Against The Machine: Introduction To Probabilistic Genotyping System : Ellen Leonida
April 2, 2020 - I'll Second That: Taking A Shot At Gun Defense : John Paul Reichmuth
April 7, 2020 - Fresh Fourth Fights: Lessons From Fourth Amendment Victories : Varell Fuller, Robin Packel, And Steven Koeninger
April 9, 2020 - Competent On Competence: A Lawyer's Approach To Evaluating A Client's Ability To Assist : John Philipsborn
April 14, 2020 - Compassionate Release 101: A How-To Guide - Lisa Ma, Graham Archer, And David Rizk
April 16, 2020 - The Novel Ninth - New Jurists, New Issues: An Appellate Round Table : Kara Hartzler, Keith Hilzendeger, Dan Kaplan, Todd Borden
April 21, 2020 - From Sea To Shining (C): Tips And Traps For Federal Subpoenas : Dejan Gantar, Angela Chuang, Ellen Leonida, Todd Borden
April 23, 2020 - Federal Sentencing: The Big Picture : The Hon. Sentencing Commissioner And District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer, and Sentencing Resource Counsel Laura Mate
April 28, 2020 - Privacy And Porn: New Fourth Amendment Challenges, For Child Pornography Cases : Lara Vinnard and Graham Archer, Paralegal Caitlin Costello
April 30, 2020 - Hail To The Chief: Reflections On A Career In Indigent Defense : Chief AFPD Geoffrey Hansen, CJA Liason Mary Mcnamara, and Federal Defender Steven Kalar
May 5, 2020 - Sighting The Yeti: Federal Preliminary Hearings : Executive Director Andrea George, Federal Defenders Of Eastern Washington and Idaho, and Jenya Parkman
May 7, 2020 - Nuts & Bolts: An Introduction To Federal Criminal Defense : Candis Mitchell and Tamara Crepet
May 12, 2020 - Who's Running This Show? Client Sovereignty, Counsel's Role : Steven Kalar and Severa Keith
May 14, 2020 - Nuts & Bolts: Advanced Topics In Pretrial Release : Daniel Blank and Sophia Whiting
May 19, 2020 - The Year In Review: Ninth Circuit And Supreme Court Jurisprudence : Prof. Robert Weisberg, Stanford University and Ed Swanson, Swanson & Mcnamara
May 21, 2020 - Rocks And Hard Places: Candor And Confidentiality, Courts And Clients : Elisse Larouche and Federal Public Defender Steven Kalar
May 26, 2020 - A Risk Assessment Toolbox: Understanding (And Challenging) The Risk Assessment Craze : John Philipsborn
May 28, 2020 - Nuts & Bolts: Federal Sentencing 101 : Jodi Linker And Angela Chuang
June 4, 2020 - Nuts & Bolts: FRE At Last : David Patton, Executive Director, Federal Defenders Of New York
June 11, 2020 - Bias And The Law: The World After George Floyd : Lisa Freeland, Federal Defender W.D. Pennsylvania and Chair Of Defender Services Advisory Group, CJA Counsel Ismail Ramsey
June 18, 2020 - Federalizing Floyd: Race In The Defense Of Federal Criminal Cases : Martín Sabelli, CJA Counsel And First Vice President NACDL, Juval Scott, Federal Defender W.D. Virginia, Walter Gonçalves, AFPD D. Arizona, and Moderated By Jerome Matthews
June 25, 2020 - George Floyd And Officer Misconduct: Cop Complaints In The Post-Floyd World : Marshal Arnwine, Jr., Police Practices / Criminal Justice Associate, ACLU Nor. Cal.; Rania Adwan, Independent Consultant; Lisa Tarasyuk, Paralegal, Federal Public Defender Nor. Cal.; and Moderated By Prof. Ron Tyler, Stanford Law School
July 2020 - Cultural Sensitivity In Developing Our Clients' Stories For Mitigation : Foongy Lee, Investigator, C.D. Cal., And Vivianne Guevara, Director of Client and Mitigation Services at Federal Defenders New York
August 2020 - Categorical/Fact Based/Conduct Based Analysis : Carmen Smarandoiu and Todd Borden
September 2020 - 4th Amendment Litigation after Carpenter v. US : Hanni Fakhoury
October 2020 - Medical Issues and Our Clients : Dr. Brie Williams and Dr. Leah Rorvig
November 2020 - Mindfulness; Dealing with Trauma; How to Cope and also Help our Clients : Debra Austin
December 2020 - Litigating the Racial Dimensions of the Federal Bail Crisis : Allison Siegler (Co-Presented with the NDCAL Racial Justice Working Group)

2019
February 2019 - First Step Act : Carmen Smarandoiu and Todd Borden
June 2019 - Forensic Technology : Joseph Pochron

2018
January 2018 - Discovering Ethical Obligations : Steve Kalar and Graham Archer
February 2018 - False Confessions : Richard Leo
April 2018 - Pleas, Standing, and Constitutional Law : William Baude
May 2018 - Jury Selection and Bias : William Roundtree
September 2018 - Hot Topics in Immigration : Helen Lawrence
October 2018 - Online chat & age play: Use a keyboard, go to jail? : Marty Klein
November 2018 - Death Penalty Conference

2017
November 2017 - Defending Against Digital Dragnet : Stephanie Lacambra
December 2017 - Updates in Forensic Science : Andrea Roth

2016
Death Penalty Conference
April 2016 - CJA ADP & Mentorship