2025 NAHO Board of Directors Meeting

Conference Registration

No-Host Drop-In Social Time

Conference Registration

Conference Orientation

1A Conducting Hearings: Evidence as a Key to Due Process (M)

1B Avoiding CASE-tastrophes: Case Management Tips and Tricks (E)

1C Decision Making: Analytical and Critical Thinking Skills for Adjudicators (E)

2A Responding to “That’s Unconstitutional” Claims in Administrative Hearings (E)

2B Artificial Intelligence: Cybersecurity and Data Protection (E)

2C School Hearing Officers as Change and Reform Agents: Turning Policy Into Purpose! (S)

3A Evidence for New or Non-Lawyer Adjudicators or Those Who Need an Evidence Refresher (M)

3B Adjudicator Resilience: Avoiding Compassion Fatigue, Depression, and Burnout (E)

3C Discovery Disasters (M)

Luncheon & Keynote Address - Honorable Steven L. Smith, Justice, Texas 10th Court of Appeals

4A Conducting Hearings: Handling Objections and Prehearing Motions (M)

4B The Direction and Influence of Appellate Courts on Administrative Adjudication Today (E)

4C Medicaid Appeals Across State Lines: A Comparative Panel Discussion (S)

5A Improving Your Adjudication Skills: Managing the Unexpected (M)

5B The Critical Role of Civility in Fostering Effective Hearings (E)

5C Prehearing Due Process in Complex Cases (M)

6A NAHO Annual Membership Meeting

6B Building Your Foundation: Hearing Basics and Best Practices for Adjudicators (M)

6C Leading With Integrity: Leadership Fundamentals (E)

7A Recognizing What Doesn’t Work: Hearing Management Tips We Learned the Hard Way (M)

7B Making Food Assistance Appeals a SNAP: Advanced SNAP Hearings (S)

Group Photo

Vendor Presentation by Guardrail Technologies

8A Ethics: Judicial Demeanor (M)

8B Chaos to Control: Tools to Master the Most Complex and Challenging Cases (M)

8C School Hearing Officer’s Playbook: Framework for Fair, Defensible Evidentiary Hearings (S)

9A Communication Techniques to Improve Procedural Fairness for Self-Represented Litigants (M)

9B Due Process Workshop (M)

9C Ethical Implications of the Use of AI for Adjudicators (E)

10A Legal Reasoning & Writing for New or Non-Lawyer Adjudicators or Those Who Want a Refresher (M)

10B Why All This Talk About Hearsay? (M)

10C Managing Contentious Counsel in Complex Cases (M)

11A Where the Buck Stops: Accountability in Public Service (E)

11B Skeptic to Advocate: Effective and Ethical Use of AI in Legal Research (E)

11C When School Districts Don’t Do Their Jobs: Warnings from Recent Federal Cases (S)

12A Walking the Line: Self-Represented Litigants in Administrative Hearings (M)

12B Discovery for New and Non-Lawyer Adjudicators or Those Who Want a Discovery Refresher (M)

12C Respecting the Rule of Law as an Administrative Adjudicator (E)

Honors Luncheon

13A Ethics Applied: Avoiding Common Ethics Dilemmas (M)

13B Being the Boss: The Challenges of Managing Hearing Officials

13C Artificial Intelligence: Operations and Operating Systems

14A All You Need to Know About NAHO Certification

14B Presiding Women: Problems and Issues Faced By Female Hearing Officials (E)

14C Motions Practice and Management (E)

14D Not attending Session 14

Announcements and Preview of 2026 Conference