Forensic Chromatography Courses

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Expose invalid or non-validated science and use valid science in the courtroom. Eschew the smoke and mirrors techniques of old and embrace the science for the benefit of all.

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The ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist Designation Program

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Forensic Chromatography Course

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Forensic Drug Analysis Course

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Forensic DUID Course

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Forensic Chromatography Course Plus Exam

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You must complete the 4 courses in order to recieve the ACS-CHAL forensic lawyer-scientist designation.

About the Program

The American Chemical Society (ACS) sponsors and approves the series of three courses that are offered for lawyers through Axion Analytical Labs in Chicago, IL. More than 161,000 members, the ACS is the world’s largest scientific society and one of the world’s leading sources of authoritative scientific information. The Chemistry and the Law Division (CHAL) has over 1400 members. A nonprofit organization, chartered by Congress, ACS is at the forefront of the evolving worldwide chemical enterprise and the premier professional home for chemists, chemical engineers and related professions around the globe.

Like “poet-warrior” or “philosopher-king,” there are lawyers of a new breed known as the ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist. After taking these courses you will be able to apply forensic science legitimately in the courtroom. You will expose invalid or non-validated science and use valid science in the courtroom.

Eschew the smoke and mirrors techniques of old and embrace the science for the benefit of all.

A comprehensive forensic chromatography learning path.

1st Course

Forensic Chromatography

This course will teach you the classroom theory that underlies chromatography in general, as well as the specific theories that allow for headspace analysis and how Flame Ionization Detector, and Mass Spectrometry works. You will get to see the instruments used, and run tests yourself.

2nd Course

Forensic Drug Analysis

This course will teach you how seized drugs are analyzed and how the scientific opinion is formed that leads to the laboratory conclusion. This is for all drugs of abuse including illicit drugs. You will get to see the instruments used, and run tests yourself. It focuses on the analytical techniques that are used in that field such as balances, colormetric testing, FTIR, TLC, microscopy, and GC-MS. It is very heavy into GC-MS. Because there is so much GC-MS work in it, it is a prerequisite for the DUID course.

3rd Course

Forensic DUID

This course focuses on the analysis of biological fluids (blood, urine, hair, oral fluid) for drugs of abuse. It focuses on DUID from the motorist’s point of view. It is one full day of instrumental analysis on the qualitative and quantitative analysis. Plus, there are 2 full days of pharmacology both the time course of the drug in the body (pharmacokinetics) and the drugs impact on psychomotor function (pharmacodynamics).

4th Course Plus Exam

Forensic Chromatography Review and Test Prep

This course reviews the theories and practices that underlie the application of forensic chromatography. You will get to opearate HPLC and GCs and run tests yourself. Time is alloted for the proficiency test needed to gain the ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist designation.

5th Course

Forensic HPLC – For Lawyer-Scientists Only

This course opens the gateway to the future of DUID defense. Eventually, most biological fluids will be analyzed by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) coupled with mass spectrometry (LC/MS for short). Remember that as the sophistication of the technique increases, so does the number of things that must be done properly in order to generate valid data. In this class, you will develop a firm understanding of the fundamentals of liquid chromatography and get lots of practical hands-on experience you’ve come to expect from Axion courses! You will get a chance to work with modern HPLC systems by analyzing real samples and will learn how to interpret the data. Thus you will be able to spot errors in data that others have generated, and thereby vigorously defend your clients.

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All our courses are taught at Axion Labs – the premier destination for chromatography education for science, engineering, and legal professionals.

Axion Labs in Chicago provides an exceptional learning environment that includes world-class instructors in law and science, comfortable facilities and social and networking opportunities.

Bonuses

Curated Library

Access to on-line course materials including slides, book chapters, industry guidelines, instrumentation manuals, trial transcripts, discovery templates, amicus briefs, principles and guidelines on questioning analysts, how to speak in plain language that jurors understand, and “Deandra’s Rules”.

Active Forum

Access to 348-member and growing “Forensic Chromatography Lawyer” Google group. 1213 conversations exist and are searchable. If you don’t find what you are looking for you can ask your specific forensic chromatography related questions.

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What Our Students Say

“Axion is the Mecca for learning in chromatography. Ever since attending Axion, I regularly win blood test DWI trials where the blood comes in to evidence. Nothing else in the nation even compares to Axion with the quality of instructors, the number of hands-on usable GCs, and being taught by the top lawyers in the nation how to use the science to win trials making sure justice results in every case.”

Mark Thiessen

Esquire / ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist