DWI on Trial 2025: The Big Apple XXIV

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.                

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.                

Effectively Utilizing Body Worn Camera in Hearings and Trials

Speaker:

Edward L. Fiandach, Esq.

Fiandach & Fiandach

Rochester, NY

1.0 Credit in Skills

9:50 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.               

Case Law Update

As a practitioner of impaired driving cases, it is critical to be as up to date as possible regarding the relevant case law. This can be difficult as this area of law is one of the most highly litigated areas in New York criminal practice. This program strives to sift through the many decisions that have come out over the course of the last two years to provide those decisions that are most likely to assist you in your practice.

Speaker:

Joseph Gerstenzang, Esq.

Gerstenzang, Sills, Cohn & Gerstenzang

Albany, NY

1.0 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice

10:40 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.              

Break

10:50 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.              

O Canada: Winning Strategies for Post-Conviction Travel

Learn how to effectively represent clients with criminal convictions who need to travel to Canada. This session covers key admissibility rules, application pathways, and advocacy strategies to help your clients overcome border barriers and secure entry for business or pleasure.

Speaker:

Marisa Feil, Esq.

Senior Attorney

FWCanada

Montreal, Quebec

1.0 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice

11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.             

Preparing, Organizing and Delivering a Closing Argument to Get a Two Word Verdict

This presentation will offer an approach to preparing, organizing and delivering a summation. The focus here is on the word “approach”. This presentation focuses more on “the how” than “the what”. There will be some content based discussion, but the presentation offers a view of summation within the context of trial preparation.

Speaker:

Steven Epstein, Esq.

Founding Partner

Barket, Epstein, Kearon, Aldea & LoTurco, LLP

New York, NY

1.0 Credit in Skills

12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.               

Lunch

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.                

Cross-Examining the Police Officer on the SFST's

Speakers:

Jonathan Cohn, Esq.

Gerstenzang, Sills, Cohn & Gerstenzang

Albany, NY

John Sandle

Owner and Chief Investigator

Sand Investigations

1.0 Credits in Skills

2:00 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.                 

Amendments to CPL 245 and Challenging Certificates of Discovery Compliance

Speaker:

Lisa Saltzman, Esq.

Senior Director

Brooklyn Defender Services

Brooklyn, NY

1.0 Credits in Areas of Professional Practice

3:10 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.                 

Break

3:20 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.                

Winning the Virtual Refusal Hearing

Speaker:

Jonathan Cohn, Esq.

Gerstenzang, Sills, Cohn & Gerstenzang

Albany, NY

1.0 Credit in Skills

4:10 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.                

Dealing with the Ethical Dilemmas

Speaker:

Jevon Garrett, Esq.

Former Counsel

Attorney Grievance Committee (Third Department)

Albany, NY

1.0 Credit in Ethics