Welcome to the Practice Program Website
The Northern District Court Practice Program offers continuing legal education programs throughout the year on a variety of topics and practice areas:
- Access to Justice
- Case Management
- Intellectual Property Law
- Criminal Law
Filled with practical and substantive information, and with the perspective of sitting federal court judges, these programs are generally inexpensive or free and offer MCLE credit.
Recent programs include:
Fall Civil Law Symposiums: Avoiding Disaster: Getting Your Expert Opinion Admitted (2024); A Brave New World: the Shift of Power from Agencies to the Federal Courts (2024); The Supreme Court’s October 2023 and 2024 Terms (2024)
Criminal Law Symposiums: Sentencing: What Really Matters to Judges? (2025); The Use of Expert Witnesses at Trial (2025); Sentencing – What Really Matters to Judges? (2024); Negotiating a Criminal Case: Everything They Didn’t Teach You at Law School (2024)
Intellectual Property Law Symposiums: Civil and Criminal Trade Secret Litigation Strategies (2021); Recent Developments in Patent Law (2022)
Summer Brown Bags: one hour civil and criminal law programs focused on attorneys new to the practice of law. Topics include Case Management: Best Practices Whether Remote or In-Person, and Careers in Criminal Law.
Panelists include subject matter experts and federal court judges.