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Webinar: Issues Surrounding Law Enforcement’s Liability | Part I
In the wake of the police accountability problems that are confronting America, it is even more vital that we are educated on issues surrounding law enforcement’s liability. Please join us for a program featuring three experts in this space: Andy Luger, a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota who oversaw the federal investigation into the police shooting of Philando Castile, David Douglass, managing partner of the D.C. Sheppard Mullins’ office and deputy federal monitor over the New Orleans Police Department, and Dr. Alex Del Carmen, Associate Dean for the Tarleton State University School of Criminology and has trained approximately 15,000 police officers and all the Texas police chiefs on racial profiling. Andy, David and Dr. Del Carmen will share insights on how law enforcement is trained, special considerations that arise during their prosecution, and solutions for the problems we face.
A second installment of this program will be held on July 21, 2020 from 2-3 p.m. ET featuring a panel of defense attorneys with expertise in representing officers. These panelists will be Drew Findling, Immediate Past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers who also represents celebrities such as Gucci Mane and Cardi B, Sharonda Williams, a former City Attorney for the City of New Orleans, and Celeste Koeleveld, formerly a Criminal Division Chief at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and an Executive Assistant Corporation Counsel at the New York City Law Department.
The programs will be moderated Katherine Yanes and Kiera Murphy, who are both members of the Federal Bar Association Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Tara Norgard, Chair of the Committee, also provided vital support in developing the programs.
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About the Presenters
Dr. Alex Del Carmen, Associate Dean, Tarleton State University School of Criminology
For the past 22 years, Dr. Del Carmen has trained the chiefs of police in Texas on racial profiling. Specifically, he has been responsible for developing the state template on racial profiling requirements specific to Senate Bill 1074 (otherwise known as the Texas Racial Profiling Law) and the Sandra Bland Act. During the course of training the chiefs of police, he has also been responsible for performing data audits while drafting reports which are submitted to the state and city councils. Dr. Del Carmen has enjoyed providing this service to Texas law enforcement and feels that his academic experience has been enriched by it because there is no question that the issue of racial profiling continues to be at the forefront of our communities as America becomes a more diverse and complex society. In addition, he has worked as a federal monitor in two of the nation’s most significant law enforcement federal consent decrees. Dr. Del Carmen has been responsible for police academies, training, racial profiling and biased based policing data analysis as well as the application of police performance measures. His work continues with federal, state and local jurisdictions in improving, measuring and analyzing data points.
David L. Douglass, Partner, Sheppard Mullin
For more than three decades, David has drawn on his criminal and civil trial experience to advise and represent healthcare and life sciences companies, government contractors and other highly regulated business in government investigations, litigation and, of course, trial. David is often lead trial counsel in federal courts, including Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and New York. He defends companies and individuals in criminal and civil, False Claims Act (whistleblower), investigations and litigation. David is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. David also leads complex, high-profile government investigations. In 2013, David was appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana as deputy federal monitor over the New Orleans Police Department to guide and monitor the department’s compliance with a Consent Decree obligating the department to transform its policing practices. In 1994, he served as executive director of the White House Security Review, which resulted in the closing of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. In 1993, he served as assistant director of the Treasury Department’s investigation of the raid on the David Koresh compound in Waco, Texas. David also served as a DOJ Trial Attorney in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division. Prior to that, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Andy Luger, Partner, Jones Day; former U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota
Andy Luger, a former U.S. Attorney in Minnesota who oversaw the largest terrorism prosecution in the country, has formidable experience in the government and private practice sectors. He developed a nationally recognized program to counter violent extremism and created successful initiatives to combat sex trafficking and gang activity in Minnesota. He also has tried dozens of criminal and civil cases to juries in state and federal courts in Minnesota and New York. At Jones Day, Andy represents local and global companies on investigations and civil litigation in Minnesota, across the United States, and throughout Europe and the Middle East. He is one of the leaders of the Firm’s national hate crimes and extremism initiative. While serving as United States Attorney, Andy oversaw the investigation and prosecution of Danny Heinrich for the murder of 11 year-old Jacob Wetterling, 27 years after his disappearance. He also oversaw large-scale white collar crime cases, including the prosecution of two lawyers for devising a national copyright lawsuit scam that defrauded courts around the country, as well as multimillion dollar corporate embezzlements and trade secret cases. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and the District of Minnesota, he prosecuted a $150 million national low income housing fraud, a $30 million rare coin scam, and a $750 million money laundering case against the National Mortgage Bank of Greece. Andy currently serves on the board of directors for The Fund for Legal Aid, which provides resources for free legal assistance to Minnesota’s neediest residents.
Moderated By:
Kiera K. Murphy, Associate, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Kiera Murphy is a newly minted attorney practicing in business and white collar litigation at Faegre, Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP. On the same date that she was sworn in as an attorney, Kiera won an evidentiary hearing on behalf of an order for protection petitioner. Kiera has also managed a document review and production in response to a federal grand jury subpoena that requested a decade of records. Prior to joining the firm, Kiera externed with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, where she successfully briefed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against a federal agency.
Katherine Earle Yanes, Partner, Kynes Markman & Felman, P.A.
Katherine Earle Yanes is a partner in the Tampa, Florida law firm Kynes Markman & Felman, P.A. She concentrates her practice in the areas of criminal defense, appeals, and postconviction relief and has successfully represented defendants at the trial, appellate, and postconviction phases of criminal litigation in federal and state courts, as well as in government investigations.
Registration
Registration is now closed for this webinar. Join us on July 21 for the second installment.
Cancellation Policy
No refunds will be made for cancellations received after the close of business on July 2, 2020. No-shows will be billed. Substitutions may be made at any time upon notification. Please contact Ariel White at awhite@fedbar.org with cancellation and/or substitution requests.
CLE
Attendees may apply for approval and self-report CLE credit to their state following the webinar. The FBA is not processing CLE requests for this program.
Please check with your respective state(s) if they allow self-reporting and what materials are required for application. In addition to the the above agenda information, materials provided by presenters will be circulated via email one day in advance of the webinar date. Each state has its own rules and regulations indicating what qualifies for CLE credit.
If you have any questions regarding this program, please contact Caitlin Rider, Conference Manager.