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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sara Musfeldt
Marketing Communications Manager
National
Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA)
Phone:
303.953.6841
E-mail:
smusfeldt@nita.org
NITA Publication Wins International
Award
Winning at Trial wins the ACLEA Award for
Professional Excellence
Louisville, Colo., May 28, 2008—The international Association
for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) announced today that NITA received the Award
for Professional Excellence for its book, Winning
at Trial by D. Shane Read. ACLEA grants only 15 annual awards to
competitors representing more than 300 organizations.
The Award
for Professional Excellence is the top prize; only one is awarded in each
category of prizes including the publications category. ACLEA will formally
present the award to NITA at the Annual Meeting of ACLEA in Vancouver, British Columbia
on August 5, 2008.
ACLEA
members are professionals in the fields of continuing legal education and legal
publishing. Its annual awards are highly competitive and winning projects
represent the highest level of achievement for the staff and volunteers
involved.
About Winning at Trial
As author
Shane Read explains in the preface, “[T]he genesis of this book comes from a
desire to teach trial skills in a more understandable way than has ever been
presented before.” Winning at Trial
accomplishes that goal through its organization, the level of sophistication of
the trial skills presented, and a solid foundation in the applicable rules of
evidence and procedure. The chapters follow the traditional order of a trial,
each breaking down into clear, focused subsections. The publication
exhaustively covers every aspect of trying a case with a high quality and great
amount of detail for each specific topic. And the title, Winning at Trial, encapsulates every litigator’s fundamental
aspiration. The book includes two DVDs containing almost four hours of footage
from the O. J. Simpson trial and a focus group deliberating a civil trial. (440
pp., two DVDs, 2007, ISBN 978-1-60156-001-8, $75.00)
Shane Read
is a graduate of Yale
University and the
University of Texas School of Law. He began his legal career in private
practice in Dallas, TX,
before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington,
D.C., and has been with the U.S. Attorney’s
Office in Dallas, TX since 1998. He has served as lead counsel
on countless civil and criminal trials and numerous oral arguments before
appellate courts over the past eighteen years. He is an adjunct professor at
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, and has also taught both
new and experienced lawyers at NITA’s seminars on trial skills and at the
Department of Justice’s National
Advocacy Center.
About NITA
The National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) is the
nation’s leading provider of legal advocacy skills training. A 501(c)(3)
not-for-profit organization based in Louisville,
Colorado, NITA pioneered the
legal skills learning-by-doing methodology over thirty-five years ago and has
since remained the ultimate standard in continuing legal education. With an
average student/faculty ratio of 4:1 and an all-volunteer faculty drawn from a
cadre of judges, law professors, and practicing attorneys, NITA’s multi-day
“boot camps” deliver unparalleled professional development for nearly 6,000
attorneys each year. As a public service organization, NITA provides, at little
or no cost, the same high-caliber training we provide to the nation’s largest
firms to legal service attorneys, public defenders, and attorneys who have
chosen to work in child advocacy, tribal law, death penalty defense,
immigration, domestic violence, and other vital areas of public interest. NITA
is also one of the largest publishers of legal publications. NITA’s references,
texts, case files, and audio-visual materials are used by thousands of
attorneys and are incorporated into the curriculum at over 85 percent of the
nation’s law schools. For more information, visit www.nita.org.
If you would
like the opportunity to read and review Winning
at Trial, please contact Sara Musfeldt
at the above contact number or e-mail for your complimentary review copy.
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