CALENDAR OF PRESENTATIONS

A listing of presentations from Gambling Court, in reverse chronological order.

2010

• New Mexico Council on Problem Gambling – Conference – February 18-19, 2010
• 7th Annual Northwest Gaming Law Summit – Seattle, WA – January 7-8, 2010

2009

• Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania – Gambling and Law Conference – November 16, 2009

2008

• Keynote Speaker for the National Association of Gambling Studies. Annual Conference 2008. Adelaide, South Australia. December 4, 2008
• National Association of Gambling Studies. Annual Conference 2008. Adelaide, South Australia. December 4, 2008. Workshop
• Specialist Sentencing Courts of the Magistrates Court in South Australia. Criminal Justice System Workshop. December 2, 2008. Adelaide, South Australia
• Specialist Sentencing Courts of the Magistrates Court in South Australia. Magistrates Luncheon Workshop. December 2, 2008. Adelaide, South Australia
• South Australian Council of Social Services. Presentation. Adelaide, South Australia. December 1, 2008

  The above Australian presentations were sponsored by the Australian Crime Prevention Council Gambling and Crime Subcommittee, Office for Problem Gambling, National Association of Gambling Studies, Gaming Care (Australian Hotels Association (SA)) and Offenders Aid Rehabilitation Service.

• Keynote Speaker for the 2nd Annual Western Regional Conference on Problem Gambling Awareness "Focus on the Future" Seattle Washington, April 28-30, 2008
• Keynote Speaker for the 5th Annual Midwest Conference on Problem Gambling and Substance Abuse "Roads to Recovery – A Collaborative Approach" St. Louis, Missouri, August 13-15, 2008
  
  

2007

• Keynote Speaker for the 8th Annual National Center for Responsible Gaming Conference on Gambling And Addiction "Innovations in Public Policy; Gambling Court and the Iowa Gambling Treatment Program" Las Vegas, NV, November 11-13, 2007
• Keynote Speaker for the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling Annual Conference, Westbrook, CT, November 9, 2007
• Keynote Speaker for the New York Council on Problem Gambling, 9th Annual Conference on Problem Gambling, "Solutions 2007", Hauppauge, NY November 7-8, 2007
• Gateway-Longview Foundation, Creating Positive Outcomes - "Therapeutic Courts - A work in progress to facilitate positive outcomes for youth in the Justice System", Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, October 15, 2007
• Keynote presentation to the Erie County Alternatives to Incarceration Board, October 12, 2007
• Plenary Speaker and Panel Member "Sixth Annual New York Gaming Summit on Gambling Treatment Court and The Spitzer Effect:  The New Politics of Gaming in New York", Seneca Niagara Casino, June 21, 2007
• Speaker for the Erie Institute of Law Survival Strategies for Life After Law School  2007 - presentation on "Town Practice", April 26, 2007
• Keynote Speaker and Workshop moderator for the Ninth Annual Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling Statewide Conference "The Gambling Treatment Court Experience - A Work In Progress" Green Lake, Wisconsin, March 22-23, 2007
• Appellate Judging Official - Herbert Wechsler National Criminal Law Moot Court Competition, Buffalo, New York March 2007
• Guest Speaker, Twentieth Century Club of Buffalo, "Gambling - A Work in Progress", March 2007
• Presentation at 7th Annual New York State Drug Court Treatment Professionals Conference "What Drug and Alcohol Practitioners Should Know About Compulsive Gambling" Buffalo, New York, March 2007

2006

• Keynote Presentation to the Western New York Chapter of Labor Assistance Professionals, Nov. 16, 2006
• Presenter, Lorman Education Services "Advanced Strategies in Handling DWI & DUI Cases" Buffalo, NY July 14, 2006
• Keynote Address for the National Judges Association Annual Meeting, Holiday Inn Select, Niagara Falls, New York, May 22, 2006
• Keynote speaker for the 13th International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking sponsored by the University of Nevada and The Institute for the Study of Gambling & Commercial Gaming, Lake Tahoe, NV May 22-26, 2006
• Keynote speaker for the District-wide Rotary Conference of Western New York "Social Issue Awareness", May 15, 2006
• Speaker for the 8th Annual New York State Drug Treatment Court Professionals Association Meeting "Practical Challenges and Implications of Suburban Drug Courts", May 22, 2006
• Speaker for the Erie Institute of Law Survival Strategies for Life After Law School 2006 - presentation on "Town Practice", April 3, 2006
• Presenter for Lorman Education Services "Strategies in Handling DWI & DUI Cases" Buffalo, NY March 2006

2005

• "Therapeutic Courts and Innovative Judicial Process", presentation to the Western New York Chapter Labor Assistance Professionals, November 16, 2005
• "Therapeutic Courts - The Advent of Youth Gambling in Schools", presentation to the Western New York Women in Administration, November 15, 2005
• Keynote panel participant - "2005 Cancer Symposium: Family History of Cancer, Indications for Genetic Counseling and Testing, and your Role" sponsored by the Medical Society of Delaware and Christiana Care Health System, Du Pont Conference Center, Wilmington, Delaware October 19, 2005
• Participant and presenter - New York Council on Problem Gambling's Seventh annual symposium "Solutions 2005"
• Keynote Speaker - Western New York Eagle Court of Honor, June 13, 2005
• Keynote Speaker - Amherst Central High School, National Honor Society Induction Ceremony, Amherst, New York, May 2005
• Keynote Speaker - Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling, Inc., Think Tank "Problem Gambling and Crime:  Impacts and Solutions", Orlando, Florida, May 2005
• Presenter - Survival Strategies for Life After Law School - "Town Practice", Bar Association of Erie County, Buffalo, New York, April 2005
• Presenter - Responsible Retail Forum, Sponsored by Florida State University and Brandeis University, entitled "Encouraging Judicial Involvement in the Underage Sales Enforcement", Santa Fe, NM March 2005
• Presenter - "Implications and Ramifications of the Implementation of the First Gambling Treatment Court in the United States", Chautauqua Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Council, Jamestown Community College, March 2005
• Presenter - "Strategies in Handling DWI & DUI Cases", Lorman Education Services, Buffalo, NY March 2005

2004

• Panel discussion leader "Problem Gambling: A Community Concern" - UB School of Social Work, Buffalo, New York, November 2004
• Keynote speaker, Topic of Ethics in Arbitration presented to the University at Buffalo Law Alumni Association's "Gold Group" (graduates in the last decade), Buffalo, New York 2004
• Speaker - General Overview and Explanation of Therapeutic Justice Courts in the Town of Amherst - Phi Beta Kappa, Western New York Association Chapter, October 6, 2004
• Keynote speaker Multi-State Compulsive Gambling Strategy Meeting, sponsored by the State of Nebraska Compulsive Gambling Council, March 2004
• Keynote speaker Annual Conference of Compulsive Gambling for the State of Ohio, March 2004
• Presenter - "Strategies in Handling DWI & DUI Cases", Lorman Education Services, Buffalo, NY March 2004
• Presenter - Annual Meeting of National Association of Drug Treatment Court Professionals Dispute Resolutions within context of Therapeutic Justice Court, Reno, Nevada 2004

2003

• Keynote Address: Annual Meeting National Council of Compulsive Gambling, "Reflections on the Implementation of and Outcomes from the First Gambling Treatment Court in the United States - The Amherst Experience", Louisville, Kentucky, June 2003
• Presenter - "Survival Strategies for Life After Law School Program", Bar Association of Erie County, Buffalo, New York April 2003
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• "Implementation of Gambling Treatment Courts: Following the Therapeutic Justice Model" - Compulsive Gambling Councils in California, Indiana, Illinois, New York, and Florida, (2002)
• "The Anatomy and Benefits of Drug Treatment Courts" presentation to a working coalition of anti-drug activists in the British Island of Tortola, January 2001, participation in a formative committee to establish a drug treatment court in the British Virgin Islands, 2002)
• "Sanctions in Drug Court" -- The National Drug Court Institute at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1999
• Keynote Address: Gambling Addiction responses in the Courts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 2003
• Panel discussion leader and presenter at the New York State Drug Treatment Court Professionals Association (annual meetings in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 2000, 2001, 2002) on Drug Treatment Court operations
• Strategies In Handling DWI and DUI Cases in New York, Buffalo New York, March 2003
• Presentation of Practice and Procedure in Justice Court 3-day seminar sponsored by the Erie County Bar Association "Survival Strategies after Law School" Buffalo, New York, May 2003
• Presentations at Western New York Retirement Facilities Re: Therapeutic Justice Courts in Amherst, New York, November 2003
• D'Youville College Presentation on Therapeutic Justice to graduate epidemiology course, Buffalo New York, November 2003

2002 & earlier

• Illinois Council on Problem Gambling - "Establishing Gambling Courts", Chicago, Illinois December 2002
• Key Note Speaker - "Problem Gambling and the Legal System", New York Council on Problem Gambling, Inc., Albany, New York, October 2002
• Presenter - California Council on Problem Gambling - "Gambling Court Seminar", Costa Mesa, California September 2002
• Presenter - 3rd Annual Indiana Conference on Problem Gambling, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 2002
• "The Analysis of Sanctions and Rewards within a Drug Court Context," co-presenter with Judge Mark Violante, Chief Judge of Niagara Falls City Court, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, Washington, D.C., June 2002
• Presenter - Sixth Annual Niagara University Criminal Justice Program - "The Foundations for an Implementation of Gambling Treatment Court in the Judicial System: An Amherst Experience" - April 2002
• "Meet the Professor" Grand Rounds, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, "Ethical and Legal Issues in Clinical Research and Testing in the Genetics Arena," May 2000
• Grand Rounds, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, "Genetic Testing and Discrimination: An Unresolved Legal and Social Dilemma," March 1999
• "Diversionary Courts in the Criminal Justice System" - The Erie County Bar Association, Criminal Justice Seminar, 2001
• Presentations on Drug Courts to area Rotary clubs, Kiwanis clubs, and Western New York high schools, 1997-present

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