National Legal Aid and Defender Association NLADA's Life in the Balance conference brings together mitigation specialists, defense investigators, and capital defense attorneys from around the nation to improve their skills and techniques in all aspects of death penalty defense. Seminars are offered on the latest scientific, medical and psychiatric developments in capital cases; on the most recent developments in the law; and on a wide range of creative trial strategies and tactics. The conference also offers several "discuss your own case" seminars, in which participants will be able to brainstorm the problems and issues of their own real cases, with some of the leading death penalty specialists in the country. Beyond an excellent learning environment, the conference gives participants an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with other attorneys and mitigation specialists from around the nation. http://www.nlada.org/Training/Training/Train_Defender/Train_Defender_Balance