March 29-31, 2006
Holiday Inn Hotel & Towers
Lubbock, Texas

Judges completing this program will increase their knowledge of:

• Judicial Ethics
• Probate Hearings
• Rules of Court
• Jury Selection and Objections
• Protective Orders
• Evidence Problems
• Juvenile Detention Hearings
• Disqualification and Recusal
• Truancy Jurisdiction
• Verbal Judo in the Courtroom
• Using Technology to Appoint Attorneys for Indigent Defendants
• Judicial Legislative Update

 

Schedule of Events

Wednesday, March 29

 

Morning

7:30 - 4:00                 Registration, Foyer

8:00                           Coffee and Continental Breakfast

8:15                           Call to Order and Introductions

8:30                           Judicial Ethics

9:30                           Break

10:00                         Verbal Judo                                 

11:45                         Lunch, on your own

Afternoon

1:00                           Repeat DWI Offender Punishment and Treatment

2:15                           Break 

2:45                           Jury Selection

4:00                           Protective Orders

5:15                           Recess

 

Thursday, March 30

Morning Session

8:15                           Interactive Probate Workshop                      

10:00                         Break

10:30                         Interactive Probate Workshop continued        

12:00                         Lunch

• This afternoon there will two sessions in each time slot, please attend the session that you feel will be the most useful to you.

1:10                      TRACK ONE

                                  Criminal Evidence and Objection

                             TRACK TWO             

                                  Juvenile Detention Hearings

2:45                            Break for both tracks

3:10                       TRACK ONE

                                   Judicial Disqualification and Recusal

                              TRACK TWO

                                  Truancy Jurisdiction

5:00                            Recess

 

Friday, March 31

8:00                           Coffee and Continental Breakfast

8:30                           Rules of Court             

9:45                           Judicial Legislative Update

11:30                         Adjourn