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2023 Spring BYOC - Kansas City

UMKC Law School, Kansas City, MO

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Program Summary:

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), Advancing Real Change (ARC), Inc., and the Arizona Capital Representation Project (ACRP), are accepting applications for their spring Bring Your Own Case training program to be held March 29-31, 2023, in Kansas City, MO. This training is offered to capital defense teams working on trial cases at the state level. Teams with capital resentencing cases are also eligible and encouraged to attend.
Teams engage in plenary sessions on foundational topics followed by brainstorming sessions with another team and rotating facilitators. Facilitators are expert capital litigators, mitigation specialists, investigators, and consulting mental health experts who engage with the teams in thinking through their cases. At the end of the training teams will leave with specific tasks to do in furtherance of their cases and will have built skills that can be applied to capital defense work.

CLE Information

Certificates of Attendance will be available for self-certification CLE.

Hotel

Seminar Location:
UMKC Law School
500 E 52nd St
Kansas City, MO 64110


Hotel Accomodations: 
Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza
4445 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
Online Reservations: Book your group rate for NACDL
Group Discount Rate: $123 + tax, to be reimbursed by NACDL upon timely submission of reimbursement request (Room block expires March 6, 2023).

IF YOU HAVE A STATE OR FEDERAL ID PLEASE CALL THE HOTEL DIRECTLY (816-531-3000, OPTION 1) AND BOOK UNDER THE GOVERNMENT RATE OF $123/NIGHT AS WE ARE RUNNING LOW ON ROOMS IN THIS BLOCK.

Rooms/discounted group rates are not guaranteed if the block has been sold-out prior to the cut-off date. 

Reimbursement is available only for reservations at the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza at the group rate; reservations made at other hotels or outside of the room block are not eligible for reimbursement. 

Attendees not staying under the room block must have written pre-approval; contact Katherine Jensen (kjensen@nacdl.org) for more information.

Code of Conduct

NACDL endeavors to foster a working, learning, and social environment free of harassment, discrimination, intimidation, and insult. To that end, NACDL has adopted a Code of Conduct for Affiliated Persons that applies to all attendees and participants of any kind at all NACDL sponsored events.

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