La Jolla Bar Association, January MCLE Luncheon

Please calendar Thursday, January 12th at Noon for our first lunchtime MCLE program of 2017, at the Manhattan of La Jolla restaurant (inside the Empress Hotel – 7766 Fay Avenue). We are pleased that our January speaker will be Professor Justin P. Brooks, Executive Director, Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy; Professor of Law at California Western School of Law for its LL.M. in Trial Advocacy program; and Director, California Innocence Project.

Professor Brooks’ presentation will be CAUSES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTION AND THE SUCCESSES OF THE CALIFORNIA INNOCENCE PROJECT. 

This will be an interesting, informative and insightful program that you will not want to miss, regardless of your practice area. Please ensure that you have this on calendar for this coming Thursday!

Further information about our speaker:
Justin Brooks is the Director and Co-Founder of the California Innocence Project. Prior to coming to California, he practiced as a criminal defense attorney in Washington D.C., Michigan, and Illinois and over the course of his career he has served as counsel on several high profile criminal cases. He has been recognized several times by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. In 2010 and 2012, California Lawyer Magazine recognized him with the “Lawyer of the Year” award. Justin began his teaching career as a Fellow at Georgetown Law Center in 1990. He continued to teach at Georgetown after his fellowship ended and served as Associate Director of Georgetown’s Corrections Clinic. In 1993, he began teaching at Thomas M. Cooley Law School where he taught criminal law, criminal procedure, death penalty law, and law and literature. He directed the moot court program, coached the law school’s first National Championship moot court team, and supervised a death penalty clinical program. Justin has worked extensively in Latin America training lawyers for the past 20 years.  Justin co-founded Red Inocente, an organization devoted to founding and supporting innocence organizations in Latin American, including: the Puerto Rico Innocence Project, Mexico Innocence Project, Chilean Innocence Project, Colombian Innocence Project, and Argentinian Innocence Project. Justin is a tenured professor at California Western School of Law. He is the author of the only legal casebook devoted to the topic of wrongful convictions.

Additional Information:

Click here for the California Innocence Project Handout

Click here for the California Innocence Project Presentation Slides