Reminder to Register for NPAP CLE

The National Police Accountability Project

Police Misconduct & Prisoner's Rights Continuing Legal Education Seminar

October 19, 2006, 8:15-5:00

*AFL-CIO Hall

1106 Lavaca Street

Austin, Texas

 

Speakers and Topics:

 

Ÿ         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.  Commentator: Jeff Blackburn, Lubbock, TX, Chief Counsel, West Innocence Project

Ÿ         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

Ÿ         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

Ÿ         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

Ÿ         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 Liberties Union of Colorado

Ÿ         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 Beldock, Levine & Hoffman, LLP

 

 

Registration form:

Name:___________________________Firm: ___________________________

Address__________________________City______________ State ___ Zip_____

E-mail address: _________________________Phone number: ___________________

Registration Cost: Day of registration begins at 8:15 AM

___NPAP or NLG member attorney: $135 ___ Non-NPAP or NLG Attorney: $180

___NPAP or NLG member legal worker/ law student: $75 ___Non– NPAP or NLG legal worker/law student: $100

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Please mail registration form with enclosed payment to the below address or print out and fax (617) 227-6018:

 National Police Accountability Project

14 Beacon Street, Suite 701

Boston, MA 02108 

*Please note: if you are staying at the Radisson Hotel & Suites for the NLG convention you may pick up a free Dillo bus in front of the hotel that will take you directly to the AFL CIO Hall.  The Dillo runs every 10 minutes.

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