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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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