Cannabis Law

Basics of How to Obtain a Patent (2 Credit Hours)

When Good Enough Isn't Good Enough - Perfectionism in the Legal Profession (1 Credit)

Many criminal defendants have suffered complex trauma that must be explicated through presentence reports by mitigation experts. This seminar will focus on major approaches to conceptualize the harm that many of our clients have suffered in childhood and a developmental perspective focusing on the effects of abuse and neglect. The seminar will also consider how these matters are assessed in a psychosocial evaluation and major psychopathology that results from complex trauma.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the ACE criteria in the context of complex trauma.
2. Understand a developmental perspective of abuse and neglect in the context of complex trauma.
3. Understand how psychosocial evaluations by mitigation experts consider complex trauma.
4. Understand the major areas of psychopathology that result from complex trauma.

• Overview areas of Intellectual Property law
• History of Copyright 
• Difference between published and unpublished work
• Case Law and Statutes 
• Ideas vs. Expression
• Elements of Copyright Ability 
• Concept of publication
• Exclusive Rights
• Fair Use
• Transfers, Procedure, Damages
• Visual Artist Rights Act

Criminal Mitigation: Pre-Plea and Pre-Sentencing Strategies

Course Description

• Summarize the definition and applicability of mitigation to a defendant's case
• Identify the multi-purpose uses of mitigation in the course of defense
• Examine how criminal mitigation can best assist one's client
• Describe which clients most benefit from criminal mitigation and why