{"id":95084,"date":"2025-10-08T03:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=95084"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:40:31","slug":"local-criminal-defense-attorney-to-share-insights-from-three-decade-career-in-tuesday-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_08_2025\/local-criminal-defense-attorney-to-share-insights-from-three-decade-career-in-tuesday-lecture","title":{"rendered":"Local Criminal Defense Attorney to Share Insights from Three-Decade Career in Tuesday Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local attorney will share what he\u2019s learned in three decades of representing defendants in the criminal courts of northwest Ohio at The University of Toledo College of Law on Tuesday, Oct. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Kaplan will present \u201cPleading Human: 32 Years in the Criminal Courts and Always on the \u2018Wrong Side\u2019 of an Indictment\u201d at noon in the McQuade Law Auditorium.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95085\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95085\" class=\"wp-image-95085\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Samuel-Kaplan-2025-SIDE.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Samuel Kaplan is a third-generation lawyer who has been working in private practice in Toledo since 1993.\" width=\"400\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Samuel-Kaplan-2025-SIDE.jpg 749w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Samuel-Kaplan-2025-SIDE-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-95085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Kaplan is a third-generation lawyer who has been working in private practice in Toledo since 1993.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His free, public lecture continues the College of Law\u2019s 2025-26 Toledo Way Series, which is named as a nod to the well-known collegiality that characterizes the legal community in Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan is a third-generation lawyer who has been working in private practice in Toledo since he earned his juris doctor from Case Western Reserve University\u2019s School of Law in 1993. In \u201cPleading Human,\u201d he will reflect on what he\u2019s learned about the complex issues that are woven into the lives of many of the defendants who wind up in criminal court and the insights his experiences have given him into the messiness of being human.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSam Kaplan is highly respected by the local legal community and brings with him a wealth of knowledge and a valuable perspective when it comes to criminal law,\u201d said Kate Abu-Absi, the program manager for alumni and student engagement at the College of Law. \u201cWe are thrilled to welcome him as our second Toledo Way speaker of the academic year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visitor parking requires payment through the ParkMobile app, a parking meter or a daily permit via ParkUToledo. Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkutoledo.com\">ParkUToledo website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on \u201cPleading Human,\u201d go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoledo.edu\/law\/events\/toledo-way\/\">Toledo Way Series website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_08_2025\/local-criminal-defense-attorney-to-share-insights-from-three-decade-career-in-tuesday-lecture\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Samuel-Kaplan-2025-SIDE-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Photo of Samuel Kaplan is a third-generation lawyer who has been working in private practice in Toledo since 1993.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Samuel Kaplan will continue the College of Law\u2019s 2025-26 Toledo Way Series at noon in the McQuade Law Auditorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":95085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,30,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95087,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95084\/revisions\/95087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}