2025 MACDL Annual Conference
Friday, June 6, 2025
Hilton Garden Inn
(5 Park Street, Freeport)
(Head's up: We're NOT at the Harraseeket! this year!!)
Please join MACDL in Freeport on June 6th for our annual conference--this year once again, it's a one-day only event!
The program offers 6 excellent total CLE credits (pending final approval by the BBO/MCPDS), including one live Ethics credit.
Registration covers the 6 CLE credits, breakfast, lunch, snacks . . . and a post-CLE evening event at Maine Beer Company, that includes beer (shocking!) and pizza and more (including non-alcoholic options).
It's going to be a fun and educational day, for sure!
MACDL Members: $250.00
Non-MACDL Members: $350.00
MACDL Member Law Student: $25.00
Non-MACDL Member Law Student: $50.00 (note: registration code required. Please contact mainemacdl@gmail.com for details)
(If you want to get the MACDL member discount, become a MACDL member today and register after your membership is processed. Not only do you get discounts on our CLEs, we offer other membership benefits including a motions/brief bank, an active listserv, and legislative advocacy.)
Note: Full payment must be received in advance of the day's events. No refunds will be processed.
You can pay through the portal (via PayPal) or by mailing a check or money order made out to MACDL and mailed to:
MACDL
P.O. Box 17642
Portland, ME 04112
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS*
(*subject to change)
7:45 a.m. Registration & Breakfast
8:15 a.m. Opening Remarks (President Jeremy Pratt)
8:30 a.m. Abnormal Condition of the Mind: If the Diagnosis Fits, Must You Acquit? (Dr. Andrew Wisch and Dr. Melissa Jankowski)
9:45 a.m. The Credibility Wars: Using Brady and Giglio to Undermine the Government’s Case (Heather Gonzales and Caleigh Milton)
10:45 a.m. Break w Snacks
11:00 a.m. Emerging Issues in Representing Non-Citizens in Criminal Proceedings (Shannon McKinnon)
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. MACDL Business Meeting/Awards
1:15 p.m. Mastering the Mind: Harnessing Psychology and Persuasion Techniques in Seemingly Unwinnable Trials (Molly Parmer)
2:15 p.m. Break w Snacks
2:30 p.m. Repping the Rat: Proffers, 5th Amendment Counsel, and More (Bob LeBrasseur and Dan Wentworth)
3:30 p.m. Interactive Ethics Conundrums (Justin Andrus and Tina Nadeau) (1-hour live Ethics CLE credit)
5:00 p.m. Post-CLE gathering at Maine Beer Company (525 U.S. Route 1, Freeport, ME)
Questions? Comments?
Contact Tina Nadeau (Executive Director) at mainemacdl@gmail.com
*Note: MACDL will be putting on a six-part Zoom CLE series this fall, as we have over the past several years, which will include a live H&D credit, and--we hope!--another live event around the holidays. Stay tuned for those announcements.
