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Continuing Education: Conferences and Seminars

Current and previous CLE trainings are available to view here. Please reach out to Elizabeth Hatfield at elizabeth.g.hatfield@wv.gov if you are interested in upcoming seminars at PDS, or if there is a past seminar listed that you would like to see PDS to do again in the future.

Indigent Defense Annual Conferences

Looking for information or materials from prior conferences? Head over to our Conference Archive

Seminars

Upcoming

Defense of Youth Training Program March-December 2025
Gibson Funds: What Works and What Doesn't - May 23rd, 2025

Past Seminars

Gibson Funds Training - February 2025
Defense of Youth Training Program August-December 2024
Things I Wish I Had Known Before My First Abuse and Neglect Case - November 2024
Ombudsman Training with Elizabeth Hardy - October 2024
2024 Annual Conference - June 2024
Defending Youth with Education Advocacy - May 2024
CPS File Sealing and Post-Dispositional Modification - March 2024
The Foster Care Ombudsman: Distinctive in Name and Service with Pamela M. Woodman-Kaehler - February 2024
Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation with Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton - November 2023
Defense of Youth Training Program May 2023 - January 2024
Traumatic Brain Injury Webinar July 2023
2023 Annual Conference - June 2023
Defending the Criminalization of Normal Teenage Behavior - November 2022
Diversion and Truancy - September 2022
Unintended Trauma from Defending Children - August 2022
Juvenile Law Boot Camp April-May 2022
"Pot Plane Trial" panel, the latest in the West Virginia Public Defender Services Legends CLE Series - March 2022
Conducting Effective Depositions in Habeas Cases - February 2022
Habeas Corpus Tips, Strategies, and Case Law - January 2022
Mitigation Training for Social Workers - December 2021
Youth Competency 101 - November 2021
Recovery Month CLE Featuring Dr. Matthew Christiansen, WV ODCP - September 2021
Competency Complications Conversation: An Examination of the New Child Competency Statute - October 2021
Larry Pozner: Cross Examination, Science and Techniques - August 2021
Mitigation Training for Social Workers - July 2021
Juvenile Detention Hearings - June 2021
Impeachment at Trial - May 2021
Attorney-Social Worker Collaboration for Holistic Defense - March 2021
Mitigation Training for Social Workers - February 2021
Substance Use 101 - December 2020
Law, Vicarious Trauma, and Moral Injury - December 2020
Juvenile Defender Summit - October 2020
Mitigation Training for Social Workers - June 2020

Legal Resources

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