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
Seminars
Upcoming
Past Seminars
- Parental Resource Navigators - The GPS for Family Success October 24th, 2025
- Drug Testing Methods - September 12th, 2025
- Dried Blood Testing - Abuse & Neglect CLE - August 8th, 2025
- 2025 Annual Conference - June 2025
- Gibson Funds: What Works and What Doesn't - May 2025
- 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
- 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
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Habeas Corpus Tips, Strategies, and Case Law - January 2022
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Mitigation Training for Social Workers - December 2021
Youth Competency 101 - November 2021
Recovery Month CLE Featuring Dr. Matthew Christiansen, WV ODCP - September 2021
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Competency Complications Conversation: An Examination of the New Child Competency Statute - October 2021
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Larry Pozner: Cross Examination, Science and Techniques - August 2021
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Mitigation Training for Social Workers - July 2021
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Juvenile Detention Hearings - June 2021
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Impeachment at Trial - May 2021
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Attorney-Social Worker Collaboration for Holistic Defense - March 2021
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Mitigation Training for Social Workers - February 2021
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Substance Use 101 - December 2020
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Law, Vicarious Trauma, and Moral Injury - December 2020
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Juvenile Defender Summit - October 2020
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Mitigation Training for Social Workers - June 2020
Legal Resources
- Complete list available here