National Police Accountability Project, CLE

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Please join the National Police Accountability Project, a project of the National Lawyers Guild, dedicated to ending police misconduct, for our fall continuing legal education seminar.

The National Police Accountability Project

Police Misconduct & Prisoner's Rights Continuing Legal Education Seminar

October 19, 2006, 8:45-5:00

Radisson Hotel & Suites

111 Cesar Chavez Street

Austin, Texas

Speakers and Topics:

    Beyond Innocence: Remedies for Wrongful Convictions: constitutional claims for wrongful conviction. Speaker: Michael Avery, Boston, MA National Lawyers Guild President and Professor of Law at Suffolk Law School

       Inmate Damages Claims for Denial of Medical Care: will include liability for jail suicide, and suing for deliberate indifference in medical care. Speakers include:  Sonia Mercado and Sam Paz, Culver City, CA, from the Law Office of Samuel Paz.  Commentator: Tim Hoffman, Amarillo, TX, partner at Hoffman, Sheffield, Sauseda & Hoffman

        Class Action Litigation on Behalf of Prisoners and Detainees : Case examples include claims for skin infections, over detention, misidentification  driven wrongful detention, and unconstitutional strip searches: Barry Litt, Los Angeles, CA of Litt, Estuar, Harrison, Miller & Kitson, LLP

         Techniques to Win Maximum Damages in Police Misconduct cases: strategies for maximizing chances of success in civil rights cases, shaping the case presented to the jury, witness preparation, cross-examination tactics and playing "defense" as well as offense. Jon Loevy, Chicago, IL of Loevy & Loevy

         Less Lethal Force: the evaluation of claims and defendants, ascertaining reasonableness of force, handling qualified immunity and product liability claims. Speakers include: Rachel Lederman, San Francisco, CA, National Lawyers Guild attorney, and Mark Silverstein, CO, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberty Union

         Preventing, Monitoring and Litigating Government Sponsored Constitutional Violations: Strategies to counter government plans which would violate the constitutional rights of demonstrators. Carol Sobel Los Angeles, CA of The Law Offices of Carol A. Sobel, with  invited guests: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Washington, D.C. ,The Partnership for Civil Justice, and Jonathan Moore, New York , NY of Moore and Goodman LLP

 

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 National Police Accountability Project

14 Beacon Street, Suite 701

Boston, MA 02108 

If you chose to register on the day of the seminar, registration begins at 8:15 AM