Level Up Your DUI Practice With This Expert Knowledge

Handling DUI Cases: The Georgia Public Defender Council Edition

Interviewing the Experts

DUI defense tools that you can start using on day one! 

 

Our experts will address DRE tools, field sobriety testing, pretrial hearings, speedy trial demands, license issues and much more...

 

September 23, 2020 starting @9:30AM ET

 

 

 Warning…

YOU WILL Learn Something.

 

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*LIVE Program available to ALL criminal defense attorneys for FREE. Georgia CLE credits will be available to attorneys who wish to apply and pay for them through the State Bar of Georgia.

Meet the Experts

Angelique McClendon, General Counsel of Georgia Department of Driver Services 

Angelique is General Counsel at the Georgia Department of Driver Services.

Ben Sessions, DUI Attorney

Ben is the owner of The Sessions Law Firm, LLC, and has personally tried over 50 cases to trial as a private attorney and is 1 of only 4 attorneys in Georgia to be Board Certified in DUI Defense by the National College for DUI Defense (NCDD). Ben is a Faculty member of the NCDD and he has served as the Co-Chair for the Georgia Public Defender Council's annual DUI Trial Strategies seminar since 2014. 

Jessica Rocker, Regional Business Manager for Smart Start, LLC

As the Regional Business Manager for Smart Start, LLC, Jessica oversees the states of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina. Rocker acts as a conduit to foster communication between various agencies and groups regarding the use of alcohol monitoring technology.

Laura Wester, DUI Attorney

Laura  is owner of Wester Law, and specializes in the defense of felony and misdemeanor criminal offenses in metro-Atlanta and north Georgia and has focused on DUI defense for 12 years. She also serves as a team member of the Gwinnett County DUI Court.

Juanita Thurman Kimble, DUI Attorney

Juanita  is a senior attorney in the DUI Division of the City of Atlanta Public Defender’s Office. For 8 years, she has focused on criminal defense with an emphasis in DUI defense and currently defends more than 300 DUI cases a year. In addition to being a DWI Detection and Field Sobriety Testing Instructor, she is also trained in Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) and has training on the Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) program. 

Ashley Schiavone, DUI Attorney

Ashley is the owner of Schiavone Law Group, P.C., and the author of Defending DUI: Case Outline. She is a frequent lecturer at DUI defense conferences around the country and has consistently been named a “Rising Star” by “Georgia Super Lawyers” since 2017. She also serves as a team member of the Gwinnett County DUI Court.

Josh Ott, DUI Expert

Josh is owner of Caselock, Inc. He has served as a Police Officer in Roswell, Georgia for over 10 years. Assigned to the DUI Task Force, he was the Field Training Officer for new recruits in the DUI phase of training. Throughout his career, he conducted approximately 4000 DUI investigations. 

September 23, 2020

AGENDA

  • 9:30

    75min

    Demystifying DRE Detection Tools

    Josh Ott (Webinar Replay)

  • 10:45

    15min

     Break 

  • 11:00

    60min

    How to watch a DUI Video

    Juanita Thurman Kimble (LIVE)

  • 12:00

    30min

    Follow Up Discussion + Break

  • 12:30

    30min

    Walking Clients Through DUI Issues 

    Laura Wester (LIVE)

  • 1:00

    30min

    DUI License Outcomes

    Angelique McClendon (LIVE)

  • 1:30

    30min

    Follow Up Discussion + Break

  • 2:00

    60min

    DUI Case Law Update

    Ashley Schiavone (LIVE)

  • 3:00

    15min

    Break

  • 3:15

    60min

    Winning Pretrial Hearings + COVID Speedy Trial Demands

    Ben Sessions (LIVE)

  • 4:15

    60min

    An Interactive Experience... Workshopping Motion Issues

    Ben Sessions (LIVE)

About Your Moderator, Erin Gerstenzang...

Erin Gerstenzang has been a DUI trial lawyer for 15 years and is the co-creator of the DUI Practice Accelerator.

 

For more than a decade, she has been repaying the mentorship she received by teaching other lawyers how to improve their practices.

 

She is known as a dynamic, engaging legal educator who studies industry best practices and molds them into systems that anyone can use.

 

A top-rated speaker at legal conferences nationwide, she skillfully breaks down the valuable lessons she’s gained from her practice and the deep bench of DUI defense mentors she’s learned from throughout her career, exclusively for you inside this free training.

 

In 2015, she was recognized by the National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers Top Ten Rated Speaker and received the Dean’s List Award from the National College for DUI Defense in 2013. She has co-chaired the GPDC's annual DUI program for 7 years and she has spoken in nearly 20 states and for multiple organizations including the:

 

  • National Association for Criminal Defense
  • National College for DUI Defense
  • Office of the Wyoming State Public Defender
  • Montana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • Maryland Criminal Defense Association
  • Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • Washington Foundation For Criminal Justice
  • State Bar Association of North Dakota
  • California Lawyers Association
  • Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • Federal Defenders of Montana
  • Mississippi DUI Defenders Association
  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Avvo Lawyernomics
  • Clio Conference

PARTNERS

We are so grateful to our partners at Smart Start, LLC, for generously donating funds to help cover CLE credits for GPDC Public Defenders.