Below is a list of the scheduled Defender Services Office Training Division (DSOTD) events. Any events that do not have a finalized date can be found on the Browse Unscheduled Training Events page.
Registration for DSOTD events is limited to persons who provide services pursuant to the Federal Criminal Justice Act (CJA). For more information regarding this requirement, see the training events registration disclaimer. For event specific questions, contact the DSOTD staff member listed as the event contact. Applicable continuing legal education, (CLE), accreditation information for each event can be found in the "Full Event Description" section of the event listing. For additional CLE information please visit the CLE Information Center.
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Oct. 8, 2025 (1:00PM–2:00PM)
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Among its many provisions, the First Step Act (FSA) provides opportunities for certain individuals to earn time credits (separate from good time credits) and be released from prison or transferred to prerelease custody based on those credits. Understanding your client's eligibility to earn… Full Event Description
Registration Closed
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Oct. 15, 2025 (1:00PM–2:00PM)
Virtual
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Online
Appellate Webinar Series, Session 7: Standard(s) Time – Strategies for Winning Under Every Standard of Review This will not be your standard “standard of review” presentation. Moving beyond a mere review of the standards, this… Full Event Description
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Oct. 22, 2025 (1:00PM–2:15PM)
Virtual
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Online
WEBINAR: Federal Defender Investigators, Paralegals and Mitigation Specialists, A Virtual Series Session 4: Navigating Client BOP Program Options & Tips For Gathering Client BOP Records Programming is an important subject for our incarcerated clients…Where may I have… Full Event Description
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Nov. 5, 2025 (1:00PM–2:00PM)
Virtual
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Online
Unlocking the Sentencing Guidelines, A Virtual Series: Session 18 -- Now What? Time to Get Proximate by Sharing Our Clients’ Stories In Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson repeated his grandmother’s admonition, “You can’t understand most of the important things from a… Full Event Description
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Nov. 12, 2025 (1:00PM–2:00PM)
Virtual
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Online
The Investigator Playbook Series, Session 1: The Investigator Playbook Series: Laying the Groundwork for Effective Defense Investigation This presentation covers the essential first steps a defense investigator should take when assigned a new case. From… Full Event Description
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Dec. 3, 2025 (1:00PM–2:00PM)
Virtual
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Online
Appellate Webinar Series, Session 8: The Great Divides – Identifying Federal Criminal Defense Issues Currently Splitting the Circuits Ever identify a circuit split only to find out the split had been resolved? Or wished you had preserved a split long after your case had… Full Event Description
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Virtual