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Winter Conference 2026

December 4–5, 2026

The Benson Hotel, Portland

Winter Conference 2026

December 4–5, 2026

The Benson Hotel, Portland
OCDLA WINTER CONFERENCE

This program is under development. 
 

 

Agenda

2026 Winter Conference 

December 4–5, The Benson, Portland


Potential CLE credits: General–Pending; Ethics 1

Program Speakers, Topics and Times subject to change.


Friday, December 5

Moderator: TBA

8:00a

Registration 

9:00

Severance

Judge Souede, Multnomah County Circuit Court, Portland

9:45

Break / Door Prizes

10:00

Public Speaking 101

Kristi Foster, 

11:00

How to Get the Information You Need. Public Records Request/Confrontation Clause/Cartwright

Susan Wilk, Federal Public Defender, Portland

Kassidy Hetland, Metro Public Defender, Portland

12:00p

Lunch (Included)

1:00

Case Presentation

David Ball,

2:00

Case Presentation

John Robb, Attorney, Portland

Henry Oostrom-Shah, Metro Public Defender, Portland

3:00

Break/Door Prizes

3:15

Ethics/Judicial Fitness/Bar Complains (ethics credit)

David Elkanich, Attorney, Portland

Theo Erde-Wollheim, Metro PD, Washington Co., Hillsboro

4:15

Adjourn for the Day


6:00

Holiday Dinner and Ken Morrow Award


Saturday, December 5

Moderator: TBA


7:30a

Hot Breakfast (included)

8:30

Science Behind Snitching and Why Juries Believe Them

Jeffrey Neuschatz, Indiana

Stacy Wetmore, Indiana

9:30

Break/Door Prizes

9:45

Crossing the Snitch

Patrick Sweeney, Attorney, Portland

10:30

Proportionality

TBA

11:30

Adjourn

Investigation track

Venue

 

Materials

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