Day 1 Sessions

Day 1 Sessions

2024 Conference

Get set for an adrenaline-pumping kick-off at NALA’s Conference & Expo on Day One! Unveil the details of each session happening on July 11, featuring concise descriptions, session timeslots, engaging speakers, and info on livestream options for virtual participants. Dive into the speaker bios to catch a preview of the expertise awaiting you. Join us for a stellar Day One!

11:30 am-1:00 pm ET

11:30 am-1:00 pm ET

Livestream available

This course is an introduction to substantive and criminal law, including criminal statutes, search and seizure, arrest, confessions, citizens’ rights, court functions, admissible evidence, and investigative techniques. Emphasis is placed on the practical uses in assisting defense attorneys, including procedural issues for arrest warrants, probable cause hearings, grand juries, and trial issues.

Speaker

Mekka Crawford-Franklin, Esq.

11:30 am-1:00 pm ET

Livestream available

Tasers, pepper spray, and other conducted energy devices and chemical munitions are intermediate weapons commonly used by police and corrections officers to safely gain control of resistant subjects without resorting to potentially lethal levels of force.  Unnecessary or excessive use of these devices, however, may violate the subject’s constitutional rights or result in injury or even death. This session will explore the intended use of conducted energy devices and chemical munitions, the constitutional standards that govern their use, the application of those standards by federal appellate courts, and documents unique to these devices that are needed in excessive force litigation, prosecution, and defense.

Objectives:

  • Develop a working knowledge of arguments for and against the use of conducted energy devices and chemical munitions by police and corrections officers
  • Develop a working knowledge of the current treatment of conducted energy devices and chemical munition use by federal appellate courts
  • Develop a working knowledge of documents unique to these devices that should be explored during the discovery phase of excessive force cases.

Speaker

Joseph Koenig

3:15 pm-4:45 pm ET

3:15 pm-4:45 pm ET

Livestream available

This session takes place at the same time as the Affiliated Associations Annual Meeting & Awards.

The purpose of this lesson is to provide participants with the basic legal terms of torts and personal injury law, help students identify the various types of torts and the defenses a defendant may raise to each, and provide a practical, hands-on learning experience in related terminology and drafting the necessary documents to practice in this area of the law.

Objectives:

  • Contrast a tort action with a criminal action.
  • Summarize the elements of negligence.
  • Analyze intentional tort claims.

Speaker

Mekka Crawford-Franklin, Esq.