Professional Development

The Money Matters course offers prosecutors, law enforcement, and administrative professionals greater tools and knowledge to understand, analyze, and organize evidence in financial crime cases. This course will concentrate on the practical skills of working with complicated and voluminous evidence to effectively investigate and prosecute modern crimes. Participants will leave with a better understanding of what cases should be resolved outside the criminal justice system.

The Conference and the UNC School of Government have developed this five-day course to address the unique needs of newly hired prosecutors. The program covers critical topics such as district court docket management, criminal pleadings, common offenses including DWI and domestic violence, plea bargaining, sentencing, ethics, and the proper introduction and use of different types of evidence. Attendees will also receive credit for completing the State Bar’s Professionalism for New Attorneys (PNA) program, the twelve-hour professionalism requirement for all newly licensed attorneys.

Firearms are part and parcel of the criminal justice system, and prosecutors need a working knowledge of how they operate. This two-day course will equip prosecutors with an understanding of the parts of a firearm, different types of firearms, and various other topics. The course is open to law enforcement to further their understanding of firearms laws, gunshot wounds, and other emerging topics. The course will also include range time to put newfound insights to practical use.

This program examines policing within the legal and political framework of Nazi Germany- a journey that eventually turned those who should protect life and liberty into those who intimidated, humiliated, deported, and eventually murdered millions of innocent people. using historical images and stories from the Holocaust, this course engages law enforcement and prosecutors in a dialogue about the role of the law enforcement in today’s communities and the importance of core values in ensuring the integrity and vibrancy of democracy.

Cases involving Abusive Head Trauma in infants and young children are highly ligtigated and often controversial. They frequently involve competing experts and complex medical evidence as well as legal hurdles and developing caselaw. This course will provide prosecutors with resources and tools to handle these cases from start to finish to ensure justice for the most vulnerable victims.