• Session One: Tuesday, January 4, 2022, noon - 2:00 p.m.
• Session Two: Tuesday, January 11, 2022, noon - 2:00 p.m.
• Session Three: Tuesday, January 18, 2022, noon - 2:00 p.m.

Presented by Professor Kimberly Papillon.

• All three sessions together are accredited as a single course for 6 hours of MCLE, including 1 hour of ethics credit.
• A one-time payment of $95 per HBA member, $125 per non-member, grants access to all three sessions.
• There is a separate Zoom link for each of the three sessions.

Participants should prepare to appear on camera throughout the course. Please join by computer and not by phone.  You must be present at all three dates to receive the letter of attendance.

Space is limited! For information, please contact Ashley Steininger at ashleyg@hba.org. 

Lesson Description

Did you know that scientists have scanned people’s brains as they make decisions and that these scans tell us what motivates us, scares us and fools us? How can we use these studies to help attorneys ad litem and guardians ad litem make more accurate and effective decisions even under extreme pressure? 

In this highly interactive course participants will explore emerging research in neuroscience. Brain imaging studies will be used to explain how attorneys ad litem and guardians ad litem advocate effectively and evaluate accurately. Participants will explore how reactions in our brains affect our assessments of threat, injury, intelligence, credibility, and competence in a charged environment. The course will pinpoint the areas where discretion and expertise are utilized and where strategy can be affected by implicit processes and subtleties. The content will present concrete solutions and tools to reduce or prevent the unwanted effects of neurophysiologic reactions and unconscious associations in decision-making. The course will identify ways to increase fairness guided by science.