What You Will Find
Over 20 Programs Presented to the Defense Bar
CLE Recordings is a benefit of SACDLA membership. Each program plays in full, as it was presented to the association, and runs from half an hour to an hour and three quarters. The collection holds over 20 hours of instruction, arranged by practice area, in one player on one page.
For Lawyers in Practice
Return to a program before a setting on the same issue, from a bond hearing to a Crawford objection to a petition for mandamus, and hear how colleagues in this bar build the argument.
For New Lawyers and Law Students
Law student members and lawyers in their first year of practice join at the student rate and watch the same collection: bail, competency, community supervision, parole and trial practice, taught by working practitioners and experts.
Practice Areas in the Collection
- Bail, bond hearings and Senate Bill 6
- Jury selection and bench trials
- The Confrontation Clause and Crawford hearings
- Speedy trial, mandamus and appeal
- Competency, mental health and addiction
- Community supervision and parole
- Mitigation and defense investigation
- Federal practice and immigration consequences
- Family law and CPS crossover cases
- Pre-file cases, negotiation and continuances
How to Watch
- Sign in at Member Login with the email address on the membership record.
- Open CLE Recordings from the Member Library menu and choose a program; it plays in the player at the top of the page.
- When a program ends, the next one in the collection begins.
- Presenters and members who hold a recording of a past SACDLA program, or would like a topic added, write to [email protected].
In the Collection
Programs Presented to SACDLA Members
Members sign in to watch any program in full, in order or by practice area.
About SACDLA
The Criminal Defense Bar of Bexar County
The San Antonio Criminal Defense Lawyers Association is organized to promote, assist and educate its membership in the protection of individual rights guaranteed by the Texas and Federal Constitutions, and in the competent and ethical representation of persons accused of a crime. Its continuing legal education programs serve that purpose, and these recordings carry each program to colleagues across the membership.
Bexar County Courthouse (Photo by Lily Thomas, CC BY-SA 4.0).
