Reading and Understanding a Driving Record and Compliance Summary (Online Seminar)

A pre-recorded streaming video replay from the November 2017 webcast, Reading and Understanding a Driving Record and Compliance Summary.

Understanding the differences between a driver’s transcript and a compliance summary may make the difference for your clients, if you are able to effectively extract the key information from these documents. Learn how to read and interpret these Virginia Department of Motor Vehicle documents.

The speakers—the Assistant Commissioner for Driver Services, Vehicle Services and Data Management Services for the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles in Richmond, and an experienced traffic offense/DUI defense attorney—will review the content and format of driver transcripts; explain the types of information in compliance summaries and common reinstatement and restoration requirements; and give tips on how to review driver transcripts to find license status and history, previous convictions, motor vehicle crashes, reasons and timeframes for suspensions and revocations, and personal notifications of suspensions received and restricted privileges.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

J. Burkhardt Beale, Boone Beale PLLC / Woodbridge

J. Burkhardt Beale, author of Chapter 5, is the CEO of the firm Boone Beale, PLLC. Mr. Beale’s primary areas of practice are driving while under the influence and criminal defense. He earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and earned a J.D. from Washington and Lee University. Mr. Beale is admitted to practice in all Virginia courts and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He is a member of the Criminal Law Section of the Virginia State Bar, the National Trial Lawyers Association, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.  He is also a lifetime member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a founding member of the National College for DUI Defense (NCDD) and the DUI Defense Lawyers Association (DUIDLA).   Mr. Beale has lectured for Virginia CLE since 1989 on evidence in DUI cases.  He has also spoken at several national CLE conferences on DUI defense in Georgia, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.  His personal training includes certification as an instructor on the NHTSA standards on field sobriety testing and as an operator of the Intoxilyzer 5000 and the Intox EC/IR II.

Millicent Ford, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles / Richmond

Millicent Ford is the Assistant Commissioner for Driver Services, Vehicle Services and Data Management Services for the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles in Richmond.  She began her career with the Department of Motor Vehicles in 1991 and has served in various positions in Driver Improvement, Program and Operational Services, Legal & Legislative Services.  She served as Deputy Director over the Driver Monitoring Division in the Driver Services Administration from 2000 to 2005, and as Director of Driver Services, overseeing the Driver Licensing and Driver Monitoring Divisions from 2005 through the fall of 2015.  Millicent received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Work from the University of Vermont and a Master of Social Work Degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.