Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Supplemental Bibliography for Attendees to "Dilemas Eticos de los Abogados Criminalistas"

For PRACDL members who attended the tertulia on Dilemas Eticos de los Abogados Criminalistas, PRACDL President Linda Backiel has prepared a Supplemental Bibliography which was not included among the materials handed out at the time.

PRACDL Seminar - Ética y la Responsabilidad del Abogado: Implicaciones Prácticas

PRACDL will be sponsoring a seminar on August 28, 2008 on Ética y la Responsabilidad del Abogado: Implicaciones Prácticas. If you wish to attend, you must complete the registration form and mail it in to the address indcated theron with your payment to "Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers," no later than August 1, 2008.

The lecturer will be Prof. Orlando G. Portela-ValentÍn, Catedrático Auxiliar Escuela de Derecho Eugenio María de Hostos

The seminar will be held on August 28, 2008, from 1:00 to 5:30 p.m., at the Salón de Sorteo de la Lotería Tradicional, Ave. Chardón #139, Hato Rey, PR.

The Cost is $60.00 for PRACDL members / $120 for non-members.

This seminar has been approved for 4 CLE credit hours by the Programa de Educación Juridica Contínua.

Don't forget to send in your registration form on time!

New Site: Law of Criminal Defense

I invite you all to check out John Wesley Hall, Jr.'s Law of Criminal Defense.  This website is a research aid to Professional Responsibility in Criminal Defense Practice which will be published by Thomson-West approximately June 20, 2005. It is the third edition of Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense Lawyer (2d ed. 1996).

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Approves New Canons of Judicial Conduct

The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico has recently approved a new version of the Cánones de Ética Judicial de 2005. 

Legal Ethics Blog

We have added to our sidebar a link to the Legal Ethics Forum which we found out about via: Appellate Law & Practice: Legal Ethics Blog.