Schedule & Presenters

SCHEDULE & PRESENTERS INFORMATION

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THIS WAS THE 2011 SCHEDULE -- IT WILL BE REVISED AS PLANS ARE MADE - CHECK BACK IN EARLY 2012

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012

(Schedule subject to last minute revision, if needed to accommodate speakers)

8:30 a.m. — Registration

8:50 a.m. — Welcome - Jim Looney

9:00 a.m. — Recent Developments in the Law (What have the courts decided in the last year and is any of it in favor of the defendant?) - Bidish Sarma & Caroline Tillman

10:15 a.m. — Break (Needs no explanation)

10:30 a.m. — Dialogues on Professionalism – A discussion of what it means to be professional - Judge John D. Saunders

11:30 a.m. — The Muddy Waters of Ethics - David Price

12:30 p.m. — Lunch (included with registration)

1:15 p.m. — DOC - What You Want or Need to Know – Answering questions you asked or should have asked - William "Billy" Kline

2:15 p.m. — Hot Topics: What’s Ahead? – Panel Discussion - Annette Roach (moderator), James "Jim" Beal, Peggy Sullivan, Prentice White

3:15 p.m. — Break

3:30 p.m. — Deliberate Difference: Argument as a Sales Pitch - G. Paul Marx

4:30 p.m. — End of program

*Each presentation is set for 60 minutes (a CLE hour), except the Recent Developments, which is 75 minutes (1.25 CLE) hours.

PRESENTERS

James "Jim" Beal has been an attorney with LAP since 2002 and a long-time Public Defender in the trial courts, serving as Chief Public Defender in the 2nd JDC prior to LAP and as an assistant handling conflict cases since joining LAP.

William "Billy" Kline heads the Legal Office for the Department of Corrections at headquarters in Baton Rouge.

G. Paul Marx is an attorney with the Louisiana Appellate Project. He also was the Director of the Louisiana Public Defender Association and is now the District Public Defender in the 15th JDC.

David Price is the head of the Capital Conflict Office for the Baton Rouge area. Previously, he was the deputy director of the public defender office in the 19th JDC. He always sparks a lot of discussion with his fact situations.

Annette Roach has been a LAP attorney since August 2005. Before that she headed the Criminal Staff at the 3rd Circuit. She is one of the two LAP attorneys who handle most of the juvenile delinquency appeals.

Bidish J. Sarma is one of the newer attorneys with the Capital Appeals Project in New Orleans.

Judge John D. Saunders has been a judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles for amost 20 years, after being a Louisiana State Senator from 1975-92.

Peggy Sullivan has been with LAP since July 1996 (an original) and has been an assistant public defender in the 4th JDC, both before and continuing since joining LAP.

Caroline Tillman is a senior attorney with the Capital Appeals Project in New Orleans. Prior to joining CAP in 2010, she worked for the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana for eight years

Prentice White has been an attorney with LAP since 2002 and teaches at the Southern Law Center and was a former law clerk in the 4th Circuit.