Forensic U - Discovering the Digital: Cellphones, Metadata, and More

Representing Parents in Child in Need of Protection and Services Cases and Termination of Parental Rights Cases

Litigating Race, Adolescence, and Police Trauma

Forensic U - Falls and Forensic Medicine: Defending Abusive Head Trauma

Leadership Transitions- What You Need to Know to Succeed

Working with Interpreters

New Gender Inclusive Case Opening Form

The below courses were recorded at the 2023 SPD Conference for Private Bar Certification purposes:

• Mastering Civil Procedure in Termination of Parental Rights Cases

• The Best Kind of Correct- Leveraging Procedure to Ensure Due Process in Mental Health Cases

• Chapter 51-55 Basics

• TPR Appeals- Advanced Issue-Spotting

• The Basics of Probation, Parole, and Extended Supervision Revocation Cases

2023 SPD Annual Conference

• Cross Examination of the Snitch

• AI, Deepfakes, and Advanced Forensic Techniques for Video, Audio, and Cell Phone Evidence- Get Clarity With Digital Evidence

• Building Strong Lawyer-Client Relationships

• Language Impairments- What you Need to Know to Ethically Represent your Clients

• Raising Race in your Cases

• Trial Counsel’s Ethical Duties as it Relates to an Appeal

• Jury Selection in Affirmative Defense Cases

• Wisconsin Supreme Court Update

• U.S. Supreme Court Update

• Sensational Sentencing

• Beyond Guilt and Over-Punishment

• Workloads and Triage- Ethical Challenges for Public Defenders

How to Try an OWI

Handling TPR Appellate Appointments

Evidence Briefs: Confrontation and Peer Review Evidence

Shiffra is Dead. Long Live Shiffra!

Forensic U: DNA II - Probabilistic Genotyping and Complex Mixtures

• Review and Refresher: Basics of DNA Mixtures

• Probabilistic Genotyping: Complex Mixtures and Likelihood Ratios

• The Software Behind Probabilistic Genotyping

• Understanding Probabilistic Genotyping Results: Software Demo and the Case File

• Challenging the Relevance of DNA Evidence 

• Evaluating Validation: Contributors, Degradation, Relatives, and Mixture Ratios 

• The Source as the Stone: Discovery Attacks to Admissibility (NJ v. Pickett) 

• Wisconsin Case Studies: Balancing the Scales: When DNA Evidence Looks to Outweigh the Defense 

• National Challenges: An Overview

JRATE Emerging Leaders Academy

• Partnering to Disrupt the Child Welfare to Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Prison Pipeline

• Managing a Juvenile Caseload: Keeping it Real, While Chasing the Ideal

• Caring Has a Cost: How to Sustain Ourselves and Each Other in this Work

• Upper Cases: The Caselaw All Youth Justice Defenders Should Know

• Come to the Dark Side: Interacting with Prosecutors, Judges, Parents, and Social Workers

• Waiver of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction: From Soup to (THAT'S) Nuts

• Taboo: Winning Child Sex Assault Cases by Speaking the Unspoken

• Language Impairment: The Most Common Disorder You've Never Heard Of

• WHOLE-istic Representation: Client-Advocacy Beyond the Courtroom

• Hidden Gems in Chapter 938: There's Some Good Sh!t in There

• Diving Deep: An Exploration into Youth Defense Resources

New Employee E-Form Training

Using Visual Aids Effectively

Evidence Briefs: Character Evidence

Ethics for SPD LTEs and Interns

Westlaw Training - Basic

Westlaw Training Intermediate

Westlaw Training - Advanced

Shaken Baby Syndrome & Abusive Head Trauma 

Litigating a Chapter 51 Appeal

Evidence Briefs- Denny Motions

Bail Amendment and Legislation: Overview and Q & A

Introduction to Skopenow

Game Changers: How Paralegals can Help us get Organized and Better Defend our Clients

Raising Reasonable Doubt - with David Ball

Fighting Summary Judgment in TPRs

Forensic U - Spring 2023 Toxicology and Causes of Death

• How Our Crime Lab Works

• Defending Overdose Homicides

• Crime Scene Processing and Analysis

• Overdose Toxicology

• Thinking Like A Medical Examiner

• Working with Your Expert

• Ask A Pathologist and Toxicologist

Handling an Appellate Appointment - 2022

• Introduction

• Deadlines

• I Was Just Appointed on a Case

• I Just Got the Last Transcript

• Issue Spotting and Resources for Your Research

• I’ve Reached My Conclusions, and We Have Grounds for Appeal

• Procedures in Termination of Parental Rights Cases

• The Post-Conviction Motion Essentials

• Handling Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims

• Preparing for a Post-Conviction-Post-Dispositional Hearing

• Court of Appeals, Here I Come

• Brief-Writing

• I Won at the Court of Appeals! (Remittitur), I Lost at the Court of Appeals (Petition for Review)

• I’ve Concluded There Are No Meritorious Issues for Appeal

• The No-Merit Report

• Conclusion

• Common Plea Issues

• Common Trial Issues

• Common Sentencing Issues

2022 SPD Conference

• Defending Science in Our Courtrooms

• Story, Theater and Courtroom Choreography

• Emmy Award-Winning “When Claude Got Shot” Documentary Film

• Closing Arguments That Don’t Suck Too Much

• Fight the Power: Standing Up for Your Client, Yourself, and Your Wellbeing (Ethics)

• The Office of Lawyer Regulation: What Lawyers Need to Know (Ethics)

• Race and the Fourth Amendment 

• Diversity, 'Difficult' Clients, and Their Discontent

• Conflicts of Interest in Criminal Practice: An Overview (Ethics)

• Controlling the Narrative Through Cross Examination

• Video Court: Where it’s Been, Where it’s At, and Where it’s Going

JRATE_Housing and Public Benefits

JRATE_Collateral Consequences of Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings

2022 Fall Forensic University: Guns, Grooves, and Gavels: Challenging Ballistics Comparison Evidence

• An Introduction to Firearms

• Intro to Ballistic Comparison Evidence and Matching Exercise

• Excluding & Limiting Ballistics Matching Evidence

• Excluding & Limiting Ballistics under Daubert

• Breaking Down a Ballistics Case & your Discovery Goals and Aims

Creative Tools Negotiation in TPRs, CHIPS and Juvenile Cases: “Splitting the Baby”

2022 Appellate Skills Academy (Lectures) 

• Life cycle of an appellate case

• Client-Centered Representation and Opening a New Case

• Sticky Ethical Issues in the Pre-Litigation Stage

• The Borderline Claims Game 

• Writing Fundamentals

• Post-Conviction Motions

• Negotiations

• Courtroom Confidence

• Postconviction Hearings

• Evidence Basics & Post-Conviction Discovery

• Evidentiary Hearings

• Appellants’ Briefs- Issues & Facts 

• Appellants’ Briefs: Argument

• Reply Briefs

• SCOW Practice- PFRs & Oral Argument

Understanding Blood Analysis Records in OWI Cases

Forensic University: The Basics of Handling DNA Evidence

• How a Crime Lab Generates a Forensic DNA Profile

• Challenging the Admissibility of DNA Evidence

• Observer Effects & Confirmation Bias in DNA Profiling

• Discovery in DNA Cases

• Statistics for Defense Attorneys

• Statistical Weights of Single Source and Mixed DNA Profiles

• DNA Theories of Defense: Touch and Transfer

• An introduction to Probabilistic Genotyping

Confidentiality, Conflicts, and Screens–oh my! Legal Ethics for SPD Core Staff 

2021 SPD Conference

• No Longer Family Court: Utilizing Criminal Trial Skills in CHIPS and TPR Cases

• Litigating Race and Trauma in the Juvenile and Criminal Legal System

• Client-Centered Advocacy

• Cross ‘em Up and Cross ‘em Out! (Making the ‘hero’ Human) - How to Effectively Cross Examine Officers to Highlight Confirmation Bias

• Persuasive Sentencing Advocacy and Preparing your Client for Allocution

• Discussing Plea Offers with Clients (ETHICS)

• Reforming the Criminal Legal System through the Jury Box

• Wisconsin’s Youth Need YOU! An Overview of the JRATE Project

• Killing them in Limine

• New Immigration Enforcement Priorities, the Status of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and other Immigration Updates

• Under the Influence of Bias: Jury Deselection in OWI Cases

• SANE Exams: The Role of Forensic Nurse Examiners and Strategies for Cross Examining them at Trial

• The Joy of Cross Examination: How to Cross Like Bob Ross

• Sustaining Well-Being in Public Defense

• Trans Competency for Public Defenders

• Action and Reaction: Anatomy of the Carceral State

• Advocating for Emerging Adults: Addressing the Gap in the Criminal System

• How Civil Law Informs Criminal Defense Practice

• Federal Potholes for State Practitioners

• Representing Clients in Guardianships

• Hashing, Tracking, and Naughty Downloads: Understanding the Tech from the Ground Up

• Hot Topics for Trial and Appellate Lawyers: Court during COVID, Marsy’s Law, and Forcible Mental Health Treatment (ETHICS)

• Defending Child Pornography Cases

• Post-conviction Voting Rights

• IAC, Machner, Oh my! Don't Worry You're Not Alone (ETHICS)

• Finding the Arc: Redemptive Mitigation Investigation

• Increasing Litigation Through Strong Attorney/Client Relationships (ETHICS)

• Report Writing, Community Profiling, and Complete Storytelling

• Blunt Force Trauma: What Every Attorney and Investigator Needs to Know

Representing Non-Citizen Juvenile Clients

• Intro and Basics

• Consequences

• Avoid Waivers and Mitigation

• Special Statuses

CHIPS Pilot Training

2021 J-RATE Training (Juvenile Certification equivalent)

• Interrupting our Implicit Bias

• Talking with Kids

  • Kids are Different

  • Establishing Trust-Rapport

  • Issues and Pitfalls

• Detention Hearings

  • Core Principle

  • Legal Challenges

  • Prepare for Detention Hearing

• Juvenile Competency

  • The Law

  • Raising Competency

  • The Evaluation

  • The Competency Hearing

  • Incompetent...Now What?

  • JIPS Disposition

  • In the Interest of A.L.

• Dispositions

  • Dispositional Advocacy

  • Dispositional Options

  • Developing a Theory

  • Preparing your Client for Disposition

  • Collateral Consequences

• Post-Dispositional Hearings

  • Sanctions

  • Changes in Placement

• Available Resources

Forensic University: Child Sexual Assault Cases

• Expert Testimony and Forensic Science

• Discovery, Investigation and Shiffra-Green

• Admitting and Excluding Expert Testimony - Daubert in CSA Cases

• Child Suggestibility 

• The Forensic Interviewer

• SANE Exams

Basics of Defending Child Support Contempt Actions

Human Trafficking

E-Filing in Appellate Cases

Pregnancy and Drug Use: Dispelling the Myths

Fundamentals of the Fifth Amendment

• When is Miranda Triggered?

• Challenges to Miranda and Involuntary Statements

• Language Access and the 5th Amendment

• Challenging Youth Statements

• 5th Amendment Update and Record Preservation Issues

Defending OWI Cases

Challenging the Indiscriminate Shackling of Youth

Defending UCHIPS Cases

Conflict Screening and Intake Procedures (in light of Nhia Lee) 

The Perks of your Prelim

The Nuts & Bolts of Sentence Structure and Sentence Credit

Juvenile Competency

Litigating Competency And Involuntary Medication in the Changing Landscape of 971.14

Handling Child Porn Cases

Appellate Advocacy Tips from the Bench with Hon.Paul F. Reilly and Hon. Jeffrey O. Davis, Court of Appeals, District II

Working Together to Litigate Motions

Using Demonstrative Evidence at Trial

The Reasonable Black Person Standard

Working with an Investigator on Motions and Challenging Selective Enforcement with Motions

Identifying and Litigating 4th and 5th Amendment Motions

2020/2021 Virtual Trial Skills (Lectures)

• Storytelling

• Theory of Defense

• OWI Defense Theories

• Opening Statements

• Cross Examination

• Impeachment

• Closing Argument

• Direct Examination

• Voir Dire

Motion Practice - Surviving Summary Judgment

2021 Crimmigration Fundamentals

• Introduction

• Duties under Padilla

• Screening

• Statuses

• Information Gathering

• What are Convictions and Sentences?

• Deportability and Inadmissibility

• Negotiations

• Sentencing

• Cancellation of Removal

• More Resources and Questionnaire

• Crimmigration Fundamentals Discussion with Immigration Practice Coordinators

2020 SPD Conference 

• Dangerousness at Recommitment: The Government’s Burden to Prove your Client is Actually Dangerous

• The Fundamentals of Client-Centered Ethics (ETHICS)

• Winning Waivers: Breaking Rules and Assumptions to Stop Kids from being Tried as Adults

• Your Criminal Case has a Civil Rights Claim—What’s Next?

• Wisconsin Supreme Court Update

• Interlocutory Appeals in CHIPS and TPR Cases

• Knives Out (Lawed): Challenging Carrying Concealed Knife Charges

• Competency & NGI: What Happens with your Client after a Court Order

• Establishing Work Boundaries to Maintain Balance

• Fighting the Good, LONG Fight in Revocations: A Case Study

• Head Injury in Children: Falls and Differential Diagnosis

• Cultural Mindfulness Storytelling: Capturing the Lived Experiences of Our Clients

• Ensuring our Clients' Right to Sentence Credit

• It takes a Village: Using Community Resources for Effective Sentencing

• Overdose Homicides 101

• Challenging Racial Bias when a Child is Transferred to Adult Court

• Marsy’s Law—What do we do now?

• Myth-Busting: Representing Non-Citizen Clients

• The Entrapment Defense: Strategies for Turning the Tables on the Prosecution

• Managing Time and Priorities

• Advocating for In-Person Court during COVID (ETHICS)

• An Overview of Juveniles in Need of Protection or Services (JIPS)

• Policing the Police Using the Law

• We Can't Take Care of Our Clients if We Don't Take Care of Ourselves: Mindfulness for Lawyers (ETHICS)

• Tips for Writing Persuasive Appellate Briefs

• Financial Planning

• Using Race Data to “Win” Equal Protection Challenges

• United States Supreme Court Update

• Hot Topics for Appellate Attorneys

• Foundations of STRMix

• Student Loan Forgiveness: How I did it (and you can too)

• Pandemic Trials: Strategic Thinking During Unprecedented World Events

• No-Merit Reports: Perspectives from the Court of Appeals and Defense Bar

• Getting Your Hands Dirty: Learning to Examine Fingerprint/Ballistic Evidence & Gauge the Complexity of Samples

• Marsy's Law and the Multiverse: Navigating the Not So New World of Victim Rights and Victim Rights Attorneys

• Effects of COVID on LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care

• How to Make the Record for Appeal (ETHICS)

• Challenging Squad Video and Body-Worn Cameras

• WI DOC Programming for Justice-Involved Adults

• Making Remote Work Work

• Digital Justice in Evidence: Detecting Edits & Deletions in Digital Recordings

• Mobile Forensics: Extracting, Processing Analyzing and Reporting

Jury Trials in the Time of COVID

How Race Impacts the Government's Decision to Pursue Chapter 51 Proceedings

Racial Justice for Youth: A Toolkit for Defenders to Advance Racial Justice

Implicit Racial Bias: A Two Part Series

• Implicit Bias 101

• How Implicit BIas Affects our Relationships with Clients and Each Other

Google on Steroids

Trauma Research to Help Parents in CHIPS Cases

Using Visuals in Your Appellate Briefs

Reverse Waivers

Representing the Parent in Child in Need of Protection or Services (CHIPS) Proceedings 2020

• CHIPS Pilot Overview, Goals and Update

• Child Safety Planning

• Temporary Physical Custody Hearings

• Helping your Client Navigate the System

• Pre-Disposition Matters: Negotiating Grounds and Achieving Better Outcomes

• Case Planning: How to Collaborate to Achieve SMART Conditions and Family Interaction Plans

• Contesting Disposition

• Post-Disposition Representation: Permanency Plans and Post-Disposition Motions

• What to do if your Client is also Charged Criminally & Forensic Issues in Physical Abuse Cases

Representing Parents in Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) Cases 2020

• TPR Protocol and the Many Hats of a TPR Attorney

• Client Relationship-Building to Build a Defense

• Disposition: Why Start at the End?

• Defenses to Default Judgments

• Motion Practice: Attacking the Petition and Petitioner’s Case

• Developing a Defense through Investigation and File Review

• Motion Practice: Survive Summary Judgment

• How to be an Effective Advocate for Parents Facing TPR

Cell Tower Forensics

Defending DNA Cases

Eyewitness ID

Forensic Issues in OWI Cases

Fundamentals of Digital Forensics for Litigators

Handling a Misdemeanor Case from A to Z (2015)

• Initial Appearances

• Client Interviews: Using our Heads and our Hearts

• Client Confidentiality and other Ethical Issues

• Discovery: Getting what you need to mount the defense

• Clients with Mental Health Issues: Competency and NGI

• Discussing Plea Offers with Clients

• Pretrial Evidentiary Motions

• Suppressing Statements

• Negotiating with the Prosecutor

• Sentencing Advocacy - Getting the Best Result for your Client

• Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions

• Appellate Duties of Trial Counsel

• Appointments, Investigators, Experts, Billing: Navigating the Public Defender Appointment System

Interviewing the Juvenile Client

• Introduction

• Temporary Physical Custody Hearing Mock Interview 

• Plea Hearing Mock Interview

Litigating Daubert and other Pre Trial Motions on Forensic Science

• Video Part 1

• Video Part 2

Litigating Science Dependent Cases

• Video Part 1

• Video Part 2

• Video Part 3