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NAPD Darrow Baldus College 2025
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Tuesday, June 3
 

10:45am CDT

The Story That Was Never Told
Tuesday June 3, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm CDT
Telling a good story isn’t easy. But to ensure a proper understanding and appreciation, of our clients’ lives, there are core competencies: understanding mitigation, report writing, interviewing, understanding the importance of collateral information, testimony, and working as an agent and team member of defense counsel. Reports are core tools need to help the rest of the world understand the lives of our clients in a way that was never told before. The session will cover:
  • Ways to develop a powerful story 
  • How to connect the dots for the reader 
  • Review material needed for powerful reports 
  • The importance of explaining the process, while humanizing your client through words
Speakers
avatar for Lori James

Lori James

Executive Director, National Association for Public Defense
Lori James is the Executive Director of the National Association of Public Defense. Lori assumed this leadership position after three years of working as Assistant Training Director for NAPD and more than 25 years of working on defense teams representing indigent defendants. Lori... Read More →
Tuesday June 3, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm CDT
Room 225

4:15pm CDT

Death is Different: Mitigation
Tuesday June 3, 2025 4:15pm - 5:15pm CDT
Speakers
avatar for Betsy Wilson

Betsy Wilson

Founder, Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston
Betsy Wilson is a founder of the Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston, where she leads a multidisciplinary team of sentencing advocates and record specialists.  SAGE conducts mitigation investigations in federal and state and capital, juvenile-life-sentence, and non-capital cases... Read More →
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Emily Hughes

Senior Assiciate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law, University of Iowa
Professor Hughes joined the faculty at the University of Iowa College of Law in 2011. Before coming to the College, she was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, where she co-directed the Criminal Justice Clinic, supervising law students representing indigent... Read More →
Tuesday June 3, 2025 4:15pm - 5:15pm CDT
Room 225
 
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