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October 7, 2016
Annual Superstar Seminar
Statehouse, Columbus, OH
OACDL President-elect Jon Saia has put together a Superstar line-up with this Tragedy and Comedy: The Making of a Better Lawyer seminar.
Click here for online registration: Register Now
Cost for members $200.00; non-members $250.00
Click here to download the brochure: SS 16 brochure
Superstar Seminar:
6 hours of CLE
Tragedy and Comedy: The Making of a Better Lawyer
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Registration and Welcome
Jon Saia, President, OACDL
Morning Session - The tragedy of wrongful conviction and the death penalty
8:45 – 9:30 a.m.
Wrongful Conviction: consequences and impact; The struggle to make the system work for an innocent death row inmate
Joe D’Ambrosio and Father Neil Kookoothe Exonoree and Catholic Priest that assisted in the exoneration
9:30 – 10:15 a.m.
Getting the Death Penalty Abolished
Nebraska Senator Colby Coash
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. break
10:30 – 11:15 a.m.
The How and the Why Wrongful Convictions Occur
Chris Adams, SC
11:15 – 12:00 p.m.
Speaking out against the death penalty
Justice Paul Pfeifer, Supreme Court of Ohio
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch (provided) Join us in recognizing the OACDL Lawyer of the Year!
The afternoon session – Comedy: Trial Skills
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
Voir Dire
Jon Paul Rion, Dayton
1:45 – 2:30 p.m.
Cross Examination
Joseph Landusky, Columbus
2:30 – 2:45 p.m. break
2:45 – 3:30
What it takes to WIN
Jeff Meadows, Cincinnati
3:30 – 4:45 p.m.
Closing Argument
Shawn Kent, Manning, SC and Patrick McLaughlin, Tonawanda, NY
Please join us immediately after the seminar in the Statehouse Rotunda for a cocktail reception to meet the speakers, your new OACDL officers, and the Lawyer of the Year!
OACDL has a block of rooms at the Sheraton at Capitol Square ($119.00), 75 E. State St, Columbus Reservation number is 800.325.3535.
