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This series is taken from the 2025 "You Be the Judge" all-day training session for judges sponsored by the Flaschner Judicial Institute. The instructors are judges, experienced practitioners, and law professors from the Supreme Judicial Court's Advisory Committee on the Law of Evidence.

This series is taken from the 2025 "You Be the Judge" all-day training session for judges sponsored by the Flaschner Judicial Institute. The instructors are judges, experienced practitioners, and law professors from the Supreme Judicial Court's Advisory Committee on the Law of Evidence.

This program will feature a panel consisting of advocates and judges who will address a range of issues that arise in correctional institutions. The topics include issues that frequently arise involving litigation of incarcerated individuals.

Join us for a webinar to learn more about using your Social Law Library membership to do online legal research. Access Massachusetts court and agency decisions through Social Law's own databases, or search primary law for all 50 States and Federal on VLex Fastcase.

Day 2 will address how to understand and apply the layered standards of review on appeal in criminal cases.

Most divorce cases will end with a separation agreement or an agreement for judgment. This session will cover the drafting of effective separation agreements and also agreements for judgments in modification and contempt actions.

At a time when immigration enforcement is on everyone's minds, two experienced immigration lawyers go beyond the headlines and break down everything that Massachusetts attorneys who do not practice in this tumultuous and constantly-changing field of immigration law need to know right now.

Legislative history is a critically important advocacy tool in Federal Court when statutory language is ambiguous and requires clarification. Federal judges invite and apply the use of legislative history to avoid incongruous results, illuminate drafting errors, determine specialized meanings, or choose reasonable interpretations of politically controversial statutes.

Using an investigative fact pattern that could be interpreted as a homicide or an accident, this seminar will focus on fingerprint and DNA issues.

What to know about trials. The importance of the pre-trial order. How to prepare for trial. How to present evidence for divorce, modifications and contempt proceedings.

In January 2024, the research center, Boston Indicators reported that Massachusetts had the lowest incarceration rate in the United States at 172 per 100,000 people. In fact, the incarceration rate has declined faster in Massachusetts than anywhere else in America over the last decade.

Join a panel of family law judges for a discussion on their view from the bench. Learn how to be a better and more effective advocate in the courtroom from the judges.

Join us for a webinar to learn more about using your Social Law Library membership to do online legal research. Access Massachusetts court and agency decisions through Social Law's own databases, or search primary law for all 50 States and Federal on VLex Fastcase.