2026 MACDL Annual Conference (June 12, 2026)

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT

2026 MACDL Annual Conference

Friday, June 12, 2026

Hilton Garden Inn

5 Park Street, Freeport

Please join MACDL in Freeport on June 12th for our annual conference--this year, once again, it's a one-day only event!

The program offers 7.00 excellent total CLE credits, including one live Ethics credit and one live H&D credit.

Registration covers the 7.00 CLE credits, breakfast, lunch, snacks . . . and a post-conference evening event at Maine Beer Company, that includes beer (shocking!) and pizza and more (including non-alcoholic options).

Registration Fees:

MACDL Members: $300.00

Non-MACDL Members: $400.00

MACDL Member Law Student: $25.00

Non-MACDL Member Law Student: $50.00 (note: Special registration code required for non-MACDL member law students. 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 paid and 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

7:45 a.m. Sign-Ins & Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks (MACDL President Matt Morgan)

8:45 a.m.-9:45 a.m. The Reality of a Not Criminally Responsible Commitment: Guidance for Advising Your Clients (Dr. Sarah Miller, Robert Lamoreau, and Andrew Wright)

9:45 a.m. Break

10 a.m. Developments in Digital Forensics (Lauren Palmer, Manzo Digital Forensics)

11 a.m. Crimmigration NOW: Fundamentals, Updates and Pointers for Representing Noncitizens (Shannon McKinnon and Kelsey Lee)

12:00 p.m. Lunch

12:45 p.m. Victory Flags & Annual Awards

1 p.m. Automatic for the Police: Tech-Washing Racism, Classism, and Bias in Our Oppressive Criminal Legal System with Predictive Policing & AI Police Reports (Justin Rosas) (H&D Credit)

2 p.m. Songs of Freedom: Making Your Client's Story Really Sing at Sentencing (Tim Zerillo)

3 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m. Defending Karen: Defense Strategies in Commonwealth v. Read (David Yannetti)

4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Ethical Quandaries & Real Head-Scratchers (Amber Tucker and Tina Nadeau) (Ethics Credit)

5 p.m. Maine Beer Company

Questions? Comments?

Contact Tina Nadeau (Executive Director) at: mainemacdl@gmail.com

***Note: MACDL will be putting on a 4 to 6-part Zoom CLE series this fall, as we have over the past several years, which will include a live H&D and/or Ethics credit, and--we hope!--another live event around the holidays. Stay tuned for those announcements.

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