Joe Lester*, Associate Director of Advocacy Programs and Competitions at the American University Washington College of Law, will provide us an "Evidence Refresher".  Topics will include the recent Court decision on who owns phone data, character evidence, when Daubert is applicable to evidence, lay opinion vs expert opinion, and more.  Please join us for this refresher via ZOOM.

Registration fees - 

• Free for current members of the BBA Criminal Justice Section - must sign in to member profile to register
  
• $10.00 NonSection registrants (invoice will be created and payment must be remitted prior to seminar)

Approved by the Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission for 1.0 hour MCLE Credit. We will email the Zoom meeting details to each registrant approximately 24 hours before the CLE.

For additional information, please contact section rep Ashley Ogles (aogles@jeffcodefender.org) or Tim Simonetti (jtsimonetti@jeffcodefender.org).

 *Joe Lester is the Associate Director of Advocacy Training and Student Competitions at American University Washington College of Law. In this role, he oversees ADR, Moot Court, Mock Trial, and Transactional competitions and competition teams. Before coming to WCL, Lester was the Hiram H. Lazar Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University School of Law. Lester previously taught evidence, criminal procedure, gaming law, and trial practice at Faulkner University’s Jones School of Law. During his twenty-year tenure at Faulkner, he also served as the school’s Director of Advocacy Programs for more than a decade, overseeing Moot Court, Mediation, and Trial Advocacy. During this time, he coached more than 30 teams to regional championships and qualified 20 teams to national finals. He also created and ran national trial competition the Mockingbird Challenge.

An active member of the national law school advocacy community, Lester maintains a website to track national trial competition results, which are then used to formulate the Trial Competition Performance Rankings. Lester has been a trial consultant for a wide variety of cases in state and federal court. Author of Thomson Reuters’ Alabama Practice, Alabama Evidence series, he also serves on the Alabama Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee for the Alabama Rules of Evidence. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and received his law degree from the University of Kentucky.