Criminal Defense Legal Training

 

The criminal defense lawyers of Gilles Law believe strongly in the importance of ongoing and rigorous criminal defense training. As such, both criminal defense attorneys have completed extensive criminal defense training. Both lawyers are graduates of the UNC School of Government Defender Trial School (2018). Additionally, Gael is a graduate of the Trial Skills Academy – Defender Services Training Division (2019). In addition, see below for a for a list of some of the training that the criminal defense attorneys have undergone.

Criminal Defense Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Seminars/Training Sessions that the criminal defense attorneys have attended:

1. Brady and Body Cams
2. The DWI Jury Trial in North Carolina: How to Effectively Try a DWI Case to a Jury and WIN
3. Client Conflicts in Defense Work
4. Use of Force and Self Defense
5. Hemp and CBD 101 for Lawyers
6. Eyewitness Identification Errors: How Do They Happen
7. Plea Negotiating with an Eye Toward a Future Expunction
8. How to Make a Successful Record
9. Prisons, Commitments and Sentencing Credits
10. Post Release Supervision – From Beginning to End
11. Making Batson Count: Combating the Use of Race in Jury Selection
12. State Bar Ethics Enforcement: Overview and Current Issues
13. Avoiding Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions: 2017 Update
14. DWI Assessments
15. Making Mountains Out of Molehills – The Importance of Pretrial Motions
16. Expunging a Criminal Record
17. Trying a Criminal Case: Recordation and Sequestration
18. Trying a Criminal Case: Cross-Examination
19. Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions
20. Trying a Case: Jury Selection 101 and Making Your Case Before Opening Statements
21. Trying a Criminal Case: Direct Examination, Objections
22. Trying a Criminal Case: Motions to Suppress in District Court
23. Trying a Criminal Case: DWI Pretrial Motions in District Court
24. Seven Steps to a Winning Opening Statement
25. District Court Ethics: Duty to Client, Court and Others
26. Felony Sentencing for the Criminal District Court Practitioner
27. Trying a Criminal Case: Cross Examination – Putting it Together
28. A Traffic Law Primer
29. Practice Pointers for Defending Probation Violations
30. 8th Floor Matters
31. Post Release Supervision – From Beginning to End
32. All You Need is Love, Theme and Theory: How to Apply the Trial School Method
33. Interpretation of Forensic DNA Mixtures: Pest, Present, and Future
34. Professionalism for new attorneys
35. Human Trafficking – Victim Identification and Best Practices
36. CMPD Electronic monitoring: What You Need to Know
37. Connecting Clients with Community Resources
38. Effects of Extended Exposure to Drama and Trauma in the Court Room
39. Mental Health Experts and Psychological Evaluations
40. Local Rules for Mecklenburg County
41. Momentum: DWI & DUI Advocacy for North Carolina and South Carolina
42. Basic SRV Practice
43. Criminal Justice Act Federal Training Panel
44. Federal Sentencing Guidelines Seminar 
45. 2019 Winning Strategies Seminar II 
46. Fundamentals of Federal Criminal Defense II
47. Defense Motions and Notices for District Court Cases
48. Ignition Interlock Training