Panel Attorney Information

Panel Attorney Programs

Winning Strategies Seminar

Not currently scheduled. Updates will be posted here

Winning Strategies offers new and experienced panel attorneys the opportunity to attend presentations on criminal defense topics of interest in both large and small group settings. The presentations focus on the nuts and bolts of federal criminal practice including the sentencing guidelines, sentencing mitigation, and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Sessions focusing on the impact of cases such as Rita, Booker and Crawford, and Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment issues are also included. In addition, participants can expect presentations on trial skills such as cross examination, defending gang cases and attacking wiretap evidence. Also included are presentations on the use of technology in the courtroom and an explanation of CJA guidelines and procedures.

Please visit the Office of Defender Services at www.fd.org to register.

Financial Assistance for Trial Skills Training

The Training Branch is offering financial assistance to eligible CJA Panel Attorneys who would like to enroll in one of the following criminal defense trial advocacy programs:

• National Defender Training Project      (2008 Public Defender Trial Advocacy Program)

• National Criminal Defense College  (multiple programs offered)

• Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy (Federal Criminal Defense Academy 2008)

• Western Trial Advocacy Institute (communication and trial skills)