ICAC Basics
2026-03-18 | –, Hanover, VA
CASC’s Internet Crimes Against Children Fundamentals program is designed for prosecutors, law enforcement, and civilian law enforcement analysts employed by law enforcement agencies. This program is designed to teach the fundamentals of investigating and prosecuting an online child exploitation case, including cases involving cyber tips, child solicitation, stings, and peer-to-peer file sharing. The program will examine case investigation, digital forensics, charging decisions, and trying an online exploitation case (including issues of evidence admission, expert testimony, common defenses, and sentencing issues). Instructors for this program are experienced prosecutors and law enforcement from across Virginia.
The training is being held in Hanover, VA. Attendance is free of charge. Lunch will be provided, but CASC will not be reimbursing mileage, meals, or any other costs. Virginia prosecutors, law enforcement, and civilian law enforcement analysts employed by law enforcement agencies are eligible to attend.
For more information, contact Elliott Casey at ejcasey@wm.edu
Click here to register.

Spring Institute 2026
2026-04-12 - 2026-04-15 | –, Norfolk, VA
The Spring Institute program agenda is a multi-track continuing legal education program offering up to 18 hours of live MCLE credits, emphasizing ethics, recent legislative enactments, recent judicial decisions, current developments in criminal law. Attendance is open to all Virginia prosecutors.
For more information, contact Jill Harris at jcharris@wm.edu
Registration will open the afternoon of January 12, 2026.

Trial Advocacy Program 2026
2026-06-07 - 2026-06-12 | –, Williamsburg, VA
The Trial Advocacy Program is an intensive five-day program offered for Commonwealth’s Attorneys and their Assistants at all levels of experience, offering approximately 25 CLE hours. Attendees spend approximately 8 hours at lectures and demonstrations given by prosecutors and physicians covering medical, legal and tactical aspects of the prosecution of child abusers, focusing on abusive head trauma cases. The remaining time is spent in small workshop groups discussing and practicing case analysis, trial strategy, opening statements, direct examination, cross-examination and closing argument in the context of a hypothetical abusive head trauma case. Attendees will be assigned to workshop groups. Wednesday afternoon is free time. Attendance at all sessions of the program is mandatory.
Attendance is limited to 40 students. ACCEPTANCE IS BY APPLICATION ONLY. Upon completion of the online registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to the application.
Lodging is provided. Meals are provided or reimbursed at the state per diem rate. Travel to and from the training is not covered.
For more information, contact Jill Harris at jcharris@wm.edu
Registration opens in 2026.

Annual Summer Conference 2026
2026-07-30 - 2026-08-02 | –, Virginia Beach, VA
The VACA 87th Annual Summer Conference will be held July 30 – August 2, 2026, at the Marriott Virginia Beach Oceanfront.

This single-track continuing legal education program offering approximately 12.0 MCLE credits is open to all Virginia prosecutors.
For more information, contact Jill Harris at jcharris@wm.edu.
Registration opens in May 2026.

Investigation and Prosecution of Gang Cases ("Gang Busters XII")
2026-09-13 - 2026-09-18 | –, Williamsburg, VA
Gang Busters is an intensive, workshop-style, interactive training course on the prosecution of gang cases, similar to TOP GUN one of CASC’s longest running programs. This program covers the latest developments in the law, the criminal practices used, an exercise in qualifying as a gang expert and the latest developments in gang investigation and prosecution.
This five-day training will be held in Williamsburg and is open to Virginia prosecutors and law enforcement. Attendance is limited to 20 teams, each of which consists of a prosecutor and a law enforcement investigator from a given jurisdiction. Attendance at all sessions of the program is mandatory.
ACCEPTANCE IS BY APPLICATION ONLY. Upon completion of the online registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to the application.
Lodging is provided for attendees whose offices are more than twenty-five miles from the training venue. All meals are provided or reimbursed at the state per diem rate. However, travel/mileage to and from the training is not covered.
For more information, contact Jill Harris at jcharris@wm.edu.
Registration opens in March.

Executive Program 2026
2026-12-02 - 2026-12-04 | –, Charlottesville, VA
The Executive Program is a training seminar devoted to management issues, with attendance restricted to the 120 elected Commonwealth’s Attorneys and Chief Deputies. The program addresses leadership skills, office management, case management, employment practices and personnel issues, police relations, press and public relations and other topics important to prosecutors in leadership positions.
For more information, contact Elliott J. Casey at ejcasey@wm.edu or 757-585-4370.
Registration will open in September 2026.
