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Early Bird Registration — Until November 26
Members:
Lawyers $290 | NonLawyers $210
NonMembers:
Lawyers $355 | NonLawyers $270
Students — $25, includes $10 membership
Judges — $290
Social Event Only Attendees (scroll down to bottom of page for details) — $100
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Standard Registration — After After November 26
Members:
Lawyers $315 | NonLawyers $235
NonMembers:
Lawyers $380 | NonLawyers $295
Students — $50, includes $10 membership
Judges — $315
Social Event Only Attendees — $125
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Who may attend?
This program is open to defense lawyers and those professionals and law students directly involved in the defense function.
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What’s included in the fee?
• Seminar admission (Fri–Sat)
• Written material in advance via download link
• CLE credit
• Continental breakfast on Friday
• Lunch on Friday
• Hot breakfast on Saturday
• Refreshments during breaks
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Financial assistance?
Members contact OCDLA by November 26 about scholarships, payment plans or creative payment arrangements.
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Cancellations
Seminar cancellations made before November 27 will receive a refund less a $25 cancellation fee. Seminar cancellations made after November 27 — once material download link has been emailed — will receive a refund less a $100 cancellation/written material fee. No-show policy: Written materials are emailed in advance to all participants. Audio materials in the form of MP3 recordings will be sent to OCDLA members only; nonmembers who do not attend are ineligible to receive audio recordings or a refund.
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No-show Policy
Written materials are sent in advance to all participants. Audio materials in the form of MP3 recordings well be sent to OCDLA members only; nonmembers who do not attend are ineligible to receive the recordings or a refund.
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CLE Credit
Credit will be applied for in Oregon for 6.5 general, 1 mental health and substance use and 2 ethics credits; in Washington for 7.5 general and 2 ethics credits. Oregon is an approved jurisdiction in California. For other state accreditation information, call OCDLA at 541-686-8716.
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Social Event Only Attendees
This option is for retired members or those not currently practicing law who do not want to attend the CLE but would like to attend the social events — coffee, snacks at breaks, lunch, breakfast. This does not include the Ken Morrow Award dinner or the reception that precedes it.
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Please complete the online evaluation here.
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Winter Conference
Finding Your Way Through Complex Cases
Program
FRIDAY, December 6
Moderated by Dennis Balske, Attorney, Portland
8a | Registration/Continental Breakfast (included)
9:00 | Brain Science and Juveniles
Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia, MD, ABPN, ABMS, Executive Director, OHSU Avel Gordly Center for Healing, Assistant Professor, OHSU School of Medicine
9:45 | Brain Science: Getting It Into Court and Making It Work for Your Client
Kathie “KO” Berger, Attorney, Portland
10:45 | Break/Door Prizes
11:00 | Predictive Policing Policy Technologies and Defense Use of Police Data
Hanni Fakhoury, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Oakland, CA
12:00p | Lunch (included)
1:00 | Everything You Wanted to Know About Sentencing but Were Afraid to Ask: How to Avoid Plain Error
Erik Blumenthal, Office of Public Defense Services, Deputy Defender, Salem
2:00 | Mink Litigation: How Defense Lawyers Can Collaborate with Civil Attorneys
Emily Cooper, Legal Director, Disability Rights Oregon, Portland
Jesse Merrithew, Attorney, Portland
2:45 | Break/Door Prizes
3:00 | Oregon Public Records Roundup
Todd Albert, Deputy Oregon Public Records Advocate, Salem
4:00 | Adjourn for the day
6:00 | Holiday Dinner and Ken Morrow Award
Presentation to Susan Elizabeth Reese plus a live auction
Saturday, December 7
Moderated by Jennifer Myrick, Attorney, Portland
7:30–8:30a | Hot Breakfast (included)
8:30 | Closing Argument
David Angeli, Attorney, Portland
9:30 | Lawyer Well-Being: Not an Oxymoron, but the Key to Success — The Oregon State Bar Quality of Life Committee & the Mental Health and Substance Use Education Credit
Michelle Ryan, Attorney, Portland (mental health and substance use credit)
10:30 | Break/Door Prizes & Refreshments
10:45 | Ethics
Professor Richard Zitrin, Lecturer in Law, UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA (ethics credit)
12:45p Adjourn
Program subject to change.
Lodging at the Benson
Call 503-228-2000 / 1-888-523-6766 and identify yourself as part of the 2019 Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Assocation (OCDLA).
Email reservations@bensonhotel.com.
DEADLINE EXTENDED — Reservations must be made by November 12.
After this date rooms may not be available at our special rate of $159 Deluxe Run of House; $195 Executive King; $265 Benson Junior Suite; $275 Executive Junior Suite.
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