Laurence (Lonny) Rose

Member, Board of Directors

Laurence M. (Lonny) Rose is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). He is also a Professor of Law and Director of the Litigation Skills Program at the University of Miami School of Law. 

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.