Trial Skills

October 11-13, 2011:

CLAE's Trial Skills training places the know-how of exceptional faculty within a supportive and technologically sophisticated learning environment. Utilizing trial simulation packages (developed by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy) specially chosen by CLAE for their relevance to legal services practice, participants develop key skill areas – opening statements, direct and cross examination of lay and expert witnesses, introducing evidence, and closing statements – through an ongoing cycle of discussion, demonstration, practice, and feedback. Meanwhile, videotaped practice sessions and one-on-one feedback and critique, help ensure that participants leave the training with heightened skills and confidence in their abilities as trial attorneys.

Note: This course is for Florida advocates only. However....

If you would like information about bringing Trial Skills to your state or region, contact Jaime Roosevelt at 617-946-4672 x4112 or jroosevelt@legalaideducation.org.

[Attending Trial Skills] was the first time I had the opportunity to practice trial skills from beginning to end and to receive such thorough and helpful feedback.

-Kimberly Moore-Waite, Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma

Topics covered in this course include:

ABA Standards addressed include:

7.11-4 - Discovery

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7.11-5 - Trial Practice

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Faculty for this course:

Laurence Rose

 President & CEO, National  Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA).

Laurence M. (Lonny) Rose is Professor Emeritus of Law and Director of the Litigation Skills Program at the University of Miami School of Law and served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) from 2006-2010.

After serving as a law Clerk to Chief Judge James S. Holden of the U.S. District Court of Vermont, Rose was in private practice in Burlington, Vermont, Executive Director of the Douglas County (KS) Legal Aid Society and has served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in Florida.

Prof. Rose began his law teaching career at the University of Kansas School of Law in 1976 and moved to the University of Miami in 1990. He is admitted as an attorney in Vermont and Kansas and currently serves in Leadership within the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation.

Rose was selected for the 1998 Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy by the Roscoe Pound Foundation and in 2001 was named an Academic Fellow by the International Society of Barristers. Prof. Rose has taught in more than 300 trial advocacy programs throughout the world and is the author of more than 100 books, articles and other legal publications.

Courses Taught

• Trial Skills

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