Unlocking the Sentencing Guidelines, Session 14: An Overview of the 2025 Guideline Amendments

This webinar will provide an overview of the 2025 Sentencing Guideline Amendments, which will go into effect on November 1, 2025, absent congressional action to the contrary. We will review the guideline amendments and brainstorm strategies for sentencing advocacy in light of the amendments. By the end of the session, participants should understand the sentencing guideline amendment process; be familiar with the 2025 guideline amendments; and be able to identify related strategies for success at sentencing. 

Presenters

Leslie E. Scott is the Director of the National Sentencing Resource Counsel Project, where she represents Federal Defenders' interests before the United States Sentencing Commission, trains Defenders and CJA panel attorneys nationwide on federal sentencing issues, and provides sentencing litigation support. Leslie earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her law degree from American University, Washington College of Law. After law school, Leslie clerked on the D.C. Court of Appeals and the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. From there, she served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Western District of New York. She also taught evidence and criminal law-related courses at Detroit Mercy School of Law and has authored several law review articles, an amicus brief, and a textbook chapter on sentencing and drug law and policy. She is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Tina Woehr, Texas-born and Tucson-based, is an attorney with the National Sentencing Resource Counsel Project. Before she joined SRC, Tina was an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the District of Arizona and the Southern District of Texas. Prior to that she was an associate with the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Tina received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

CLE

To ensure we could deliver the content as quickly as possible, we did not apply for CLE for this webinar. However, attendees will receive a Certificate of Attendance, which can be used to self-apply for CLE credits, depending on the requirements of your state's bar, within 15-30 days of the broadcast.