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• 2025 MACDL Annual Conference--One Day Only!

  • When
    June 06, 2025
  •  
    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport, ME

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  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 6.25 excellent total CLE credits (approved by both the Board of Bar Overseers and the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services for credit, not payment), including one live Ethics credit.

   

  Registration covers the 6.25 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.

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