Mid-Winter Conference 2025
NALI’s Mid-Winter is January 23rd – January 24th in Ft Lauderdale, Florida.
Riverside Hotel
620 East Las Olas Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
The room block expires on December 30 , 2024
Room Reservations Website – https://reservations.travelclick.com/15542?groupID=4491478
Single/Double room rate – $219
Attendees should refer to NALI Mid-Winter Conference to receive group room rate.
Rates are available to NALI members from Saturday, January 18, 2025 thru Monday, January 27, 2025.
Schedule
Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025
8:00am – 12:00pm CLI Testing
9:00am – 12:00pm Executive Council Meeting
1:00pm – 4:00pm CLI Testing
pm: Group Dinners on their own
Thursday, January 23, 2025
8:00am – 9:00am Check-In, Breakfast and Vendor Visits
8:30am – 9:00am Welcome Reception First Time Attendees
9:00am – 9:20am Welcome
9:20am – 10:10am Presentation: Rachel Roberts, CLI & Janiece Lee, CLI
Title: Report Writing/Statement Taking I – for those who don’t record
10:10am – 11:00am Presentation: Dan Collins, CLI
Title: Creative Solutions for Difficult Locates
11:00am – 11:20am Group Photo & Vendor Visits
11:20am – 12:30pm Lunch & Keynote: Gabriel F. Zambrano, Trial Attorney
Lytal, Reiter, Smith, Ivey & Fronrath
Title: Investigation & Documents. Research Public Records Request & FOIA
Where to go to find the hidden gem and how to go about it and the rewards the docs bring to your client/s
12:30pm – 2:30pm Presentation: Troy Fleming, CLI
Title: Research & Practice Tools– Panel Discussion with Providers
2:30pm – 2:50pm Break and Vendor Visit
2:50pm – 3:40 pm Presentation: David Jude, CLI
Title: Criminal Defense Investigations: Unlocked by CLI
3:40pm – 4:30pm Presentation: Josh Wooten, CLI
Title: Investigation and Discovery: Enhancing the Discovery Process in Civil Litigation
4:30pm – 5:20pm Round Table Discussion – Research & Practice Tools
Troy Fleming, CLI
4:30pm – 5:00pm Visit with Vendors
6:30pm NALI Hospitality Reception
Friday, January 24, 2025
8:00am – 9:00am Breakfast and Vendor Visits
9:00am – 9:15am Welcome & Legislative Update
9:15am – 10:05am Presentation: Roman Bazikalov, CLI
Title: Title Report Writing/Statement Taking II – for those who record
10:05am – 10:20am CLI Pinning and Presentations & Visit with Vendors
10:30am – 12:10pm Presentation: Janiece Lee, CLI
Title: Rapport Building: The Gift that Keeps on Giving in Your Investigations
12:10pm – 1:20pm Lunch– PI Trivia Competition (with CLI exam style/topic questions)
1:20pm – 2:10pm Presentation: Rich Robertson, CLI
Title: How to further your profession w/ white papers/articles for professional journals
2:10pm – 2:30pm Visit with vendors – Break
2:30pm – 3:20pm Presentation: Rachel Delgado, Esq.
Title: Ethics of a CLI: The Highest Professional Standards
3:20pm – 4:10pm Presentation: Mark Murnan, CLI & Wendy Murnan
Title: Best Business Practices – How to make money, not just get by
4:10pm – 5:00pm Round Table Discussion – Preparing for the CLI
Janiece Lee, CLI; Jenn Brown, CLI; Josh Wooten, CLI
4:10pm – 5:00pm Visit with Vendors
16 CEU’s
Certificates Provided
PLATINUM SPONSORS
The NALI 2025 MidWinter will focus on the CLI, highlighting the standards and best practices within our profession. The conference, which will provide tools and materials for all professional investigators, will highlight some of NALI’s incredible members focusing on a wide array of topics. While this conference will benefit everyone who attends, those who are considering taking the step to become a CLI will be provided opportunities to hear from CLIs and to learn more about the process and exam.
Speakers from across North America will present on topics relevant to both in-house and independent investigators whether they work on criminal defense or civil litigation. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about statement taking, difficult locates, business practices, writing for professional journals, and more. Hear from database vendors who will highlight what their products can do to assist you in your investigations. Each day of incredible presentations will conclude with a roundtable discussion open to all participants.
Offering 16 hours of continuing education credit, this conference is designed to equip and stretch legal investigators at every level. NALI will provide materials and presentations on a flash drive/notebook to all conferencegoers so they can take the tools home with them.
In addition to all of the incredible tools and presentations, we will have a “LIT” Lunch with a Legal Investigator Trivia competition!