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A Two-Part Program for Criminal Trial and Appellate Practitioners

• Session 1: Search Warrants
• Session 2: Warrantless Searches (non-motor vehicle) 

Search and seizure law remains one of the most heavily litigated, fast-moving areas of MA criminal practice. From evolving standards for digital evidence to street-level threshold inquiries, successful advocacy requires a command of constitutional principles and procedural mechanics.

Social Law members have online access to PLI Course Handbooks through Social Law Library’s subscription to PLI PLUS, the Practising Law Institute’s award-winning database. PLI Course Handbooks serve as the written material accompanying PLI’s nationally acclaimed seminars and represent the definitive thinking of the nation’s finest legal minds. Spanning 33 diverse practice areas, these books bring Social Law Library members the most up-to-date knowledge from legal practitioners at the forefront of their field. 

Summary Process Law is both complex and evolving. This program is presented by Housing Court judges and will focus on procedural and substantive issues of residential summary process practice, including significant changes to Massachusetts housing law. 

• Hon. Irene H. Bagdoian
• Hon. Diana Horan, Chief Justice
• Hon. Michael E. Malamut
• Hon. Donna T. Salvidio
• Hon. Neil Sherring
• Hon. Jeffrey M. Winik