2025 Forensic Science & Technology Seminar

Sahara Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV

BIG NAMES. BIG SCIENCE. NEW TECHNOLOGY. A BIG-TIME CLE EXPERIENCE!

Don’t miss this great opportunity for a no-nonsense, national networking CLE featuring the leading faculty in their respective fields.

Friday Sessions:

Forensic Science Track

• How to Best Utilize (and Treat) Your Experts
• Your Case is Raining Gems: How to Impeach Deviations from the Standards of Evidence
• The Principles of Reliable Fire Investigation: Application of the Scientific Method to Forensic Investigations
• Too Close for Comfort: AFIS Searches, Close Non-Matches, and Quality Assurance in Latent Print Comparisons
• STRmix
• Serology Testing and DNA Transfer: What the Lab Reports Really Mean
• The Science of Cannabis and THC
• Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: Genuine or Junk?

AI & Technology Track

• The Future of Advocacy: Innovative AI Solutions for Criminal Defense Inside and Beyond the Courtroom
• AI: Artificial Intelligence Roadmap for Practicing Attorneys
• Challenging Automated Suspicion: Litigating 4th Amendment & Technology Issues
• Cellular Location Data: How Did the Great Lie Get Accepted by the Courts?
• Biometrics: Facial Recognition
• Beating a Stacked Deck: Attacking Electronic Evidence in Digital Searches
• Justice by Algorithm: AI, Bias, and Ethical Challenges
• Electronic Data Recorders: The Value and How They are Misused

Saturday Sessions:

• Challenging the "Science" of Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Forensic Pathology: Determining Manner and Cause of Death
• Forensic DNA Interpretation, Human Factors & Cognitive Bias: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach
• Cognitive Bias in Forensic Science
• Science-Based Standards for Non-Eyewitness Identification in a Surveillance World
• Visibility Analysis & Technological Advances
• Analyzing Authenticity: Decoding Video Evidence
• Challenging Carceral Forensic Software

Faculty:

• Patrick T. Barone (Birmingham, MI)
• Daniel Billington (Beaver Dam, WI)
• Dr. Martha J. Burt, MD (Clackamas, OR)
• Dr. Marc Canellas (Baltimore, MD)
• Douglas J. Carpenter, MScFPE, CFEI, P.E., FSFPE (Columbia, MD)
• Brian Cummings (Albany, NY)
• Lisa Desire, MFS (High Bridge, NJ)
• Dr. Heidi Eldridge, Ph.D. (Silver Spring, MD)
• Andrew Garrett (Orlando, FL)
• Prof. Sonia M. Gipson Rankin (Albuquerque, NM)
• Dr. Jennifer Johnson, DNP, MSN, APRN, WHNP-BC, AFN-BC, SANE-A, SANE-P, DF-AFN (Mission, KS)
• Tamar Lerer (Newark, NJ)
• Daniel Mehler (San Antonio, TX)
• Kathy Pezdek (Claremont, CA)
• Adele Quigley-McBride (Burnaby, BC, Canada)
• Danica Rue (Newark, NJ)
• Amy Santoro, MFS, CBPA, CSCSA, CFPh, ABC-FKE (Kansas City, MO)
• Laura Schile (Sun City, AZ)
• Maneka Sinha (Baltimore, MD)
• Melissa K. Taylor (Gaithersburg, MD)
• Sidney Thaxter, NACDL's 4th Amendment Center (Washington, DC)
• Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez (Brooklyn, NY)
• Tim Zerillo (Portland, ME)