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• 2023 MACDL Annual Conference

  • Start
    June 08, 2023
  • End
    June 09, 2023
  • Location
    Harraseeket Inn, Freeport Maine

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  MACDL Annual Conference

  June 8th and June 9th, 2023

  Harraseeket Inn, Freeport, ME

  For the first time since 2019, MACDL's annual conference is back at the Harraseeket--live and in living color!

  Thursday, June 8th

  
  

  8:00 a.m.       Registration & Breakfast

   

  8:30 a.m.       President’s Welcome

                          Amber L. Tucker, The Law Office of Amber L. Tucker

   

  8:45 a.m.       State Constitutional Arguments

                          Jamesa Drake, Drake Law

   

  10:00 a.m.     Break & Snacks

   

  10:15 a.m.     Representing & Advocating for Trans Clients 

                          Gia Drew, EqualityMaine

                   

  11:15 a.m.     2022-2023 Legislative Updates

                          Walter F. McKee, McKee Law

   

  12:00 p.m.     Lunch

   

  1:00 p.m.       All Aboard the Crazy Train: Defending the Mentally Ill Offender in Serious Criminal Cases

        Nellie King, NACDL President, Law Offices of Nellie King (West Palm Beach, FL)

   

  2:00 p.m.     Attorney-Directed Voir Dire: Applying Lessons Learned from Civil Cases

                           Ben Gideon, Gideon Asen

   

  3:00 p.m.       Break & Snacks                   

   

  3:15 p.m.        Ethics is Reely Fun

                          Stephen J. Schwartz, Schwartz & Schwartz

   

  4:15 p.m.        MACDL Defender Reception    

   

  6:00 p.m.       MACDL 30^th Anniversary Celebration Dinner (Separate Registration Required!)

   

  CLE CREDITS (Day 1):  4 General Hours; 1 Ethics; 1 H&D (6 hours total)

  
  

  Friday, June 9

   

  8:00 a.m.       Registration & Breakfast

   

  8:30 a.m.       Fighting (and Winning!) Probation Revocation Motions                  

                          Cory McKenna, McKenna PLLC

                   

  9:30 a.m.       2022-2023 Law Court Updates

                          David Bobrow, Bedard & Bobrow

   

  10:30 a.m.     Break & Snacks

   

  10:45 a.m.     Understanding Police K9 Cases & Dog Sniff Evidence

                          Andy Falco Jimenez, Falco K9 Academy, and Kristine Hanly, Garmey Law 

                     

  12:15 p.m.     Lunch            

                                       

  1:00 p.m.       Anatomy of a Jury Trial

    James Howaniec, Howaniec Law Offices, and Jesse Archer, The Law Office of Jesse James Ian Archer

   

  2:30 p.m.       Break & Snacks

   

  2:45 p.m.       A State Court Practitioner’s Guide to Federal Court

                           David Beneman, Federal Defender’s Office

   

  3:45 p.m.       Closing Remarks

   

  4:00 p.m.       Adjourn

                  

  CLE CREDITS (Day 2): 6 General Hours.

   

  Total for both days: 12 CLE Credit Hours, including 10 general hours and 1 hour each of Ethics and H&D credit.

  The cost to attend both days is $400 for non-MACDL members; $350 for MACDL members.

  
  

  To attend for one day only, the cost is $225 for members and $275 for non-MACDL members.

  
  

  The cost of attendance includes continental breakfast, morning and afternoon snacks, and lunch. There will also be a cocktail hour for all attendees following presentations on Thursday, June 8th with two free (beer/wine) drink tickets for each person and unlimited free snacks and non-alcoholic beverages for all.

  
  

  Registrations are absolutely non-refundable after June 1st. 
  

  
  

  Please contact me at mainemacdl@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

  
  

  Can't wait to see you!

  Tina H. Nadeau

  MACDL Executive Director

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• MACDL 30th Anniversary Celebration

  • When
    June 08, 2023
  •  
    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Harraseeket Inn, Freeport, ME
  • Spaces left
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  MACDL 30th Anniversary Celebration

  Thursday, June 8th

  6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

  Harraseeket Inn, Freeport, ME

  “To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.”
  ― Clarence Darrow
  

  On behalf of MACDL's Events Committee (Steve Schwartz, Lenny Sharon, Walt McKee, and Amber Tucker):

  You are cordially invited to join MACDL as we celebrate--a smidge belatedly--our 30th anniversary at the beautiful Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, Thursday, June 8th, at 6:00 p.m.

  Former MACDL Board Presidents are invited to attend our celebration for free (registration is still required).

  In addition, any attendee can register to attend at various sponsorship levels:

  $500 for Renegades,

  $250 for Rogues, and

  $100 for Rebels.

  The cost for all other attendees is $50 per person.

  Dinner will be buffet style with a cash bar.

  Cocktail hour will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. outside the Harraseeket with two free (beer/wine) drink tickets for each attendee, as well as snacks and unlimited non-alcoholic beverage options for all.

  Space is limited, so please sign up as soon as possible!

  Also, if you have photographs or memories you would like to share at the celebration, please send them to me at mainemacdl@gmail.com.

  Additionally, if you would like to say a few words at the event, please let me know as soon as you can.

  I look forward to seeing many of you soon!

  Tina

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