Professional Development

This three-day course is designed to sharpen leadership skills. The Leadership Challenge introduces a practical and accessible model to help leaders mobilize a desire in others to get extraordinary results. This program is based on over 40 years of research in over 34 countries. Focusing on the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this course is an unbelievable opportunity to learn to lead and motivate effectively.

The Money Matters course offers 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. This course will also equip prosecutors with the necessary tools to solve the most common scenarios presented in financial crime prosecutions. The participants will leave with a better understanding of what cases belong in criminal court and what cases should be resolved outside the criminal justice system. This course will be offered twice this year, with slight modifications in the agenda based on emerging trends and new developments in the law.

The Conference and the UNC School of Government have developed this 5-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 fundamentals of introducing and using 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.

Using historical images and other records from the Holocaust, this course engages law enforcement professionals in a dialogue about their critical role in today’s communities and the importance of core values and personal responsibility in ensuring the integrity and vibrancy of democracy. Starting with personal reflections and then working through the examination of the legal and political framework of Nazi Germany, this program concludes with consideration of how “What You Do Matters” every day.

This annual homicide course features a changing curriculum each year, offering new subjects related to homicide so that attendees gain fresh insights. This three-day multidisciplinary course will provide the knowledge and skills necessary for prosecutors to make charging decisions and prosecute homicide cases. Additionally, this course will provide practical exercises in the investigation and prosecution of a homicide and teamwork tips for investigators and victim advocates.