The international Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) has awarded NITA the Award for Professional Excellence for 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.

Winning at Trial uses innovative techniques to teach students and experienced lawyers alike the art of presenting a clear and compelling case in order to win at trial.

These skills are gained first by observing then by doing, and in Winning at Trial the reader is enabled to do just that by analyzing infamous trials, namely the O. J. Simpson and the Timothy McVeigh trials. This book is one of the most comprehensive trial advocacy resources published in recent years. Students, lawyers, judges, and librarians alike will benefit from Read's wisdom.

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.

Reviews

Shane Read takes a fresh view of the art of persuasion at trial and challenges some of the basic assumptions about what is effective advocacy. Mr. Read’s text is a refreshing and thought-provoking analysis that is bound to change the thinking of lawyers and teachers about the art of trial advocacy.

—Frederick C. Moss, Assoc. Prof. of Law, Dedman School of Law,
Southern Methodist University

Shane Read has written an excellent book that will be most helpful to the bench and bar for many years to come. I wish he had produced this gem 50 years ago so I could have used it when I was a trial lawyer. It would have also made easier my job as a trial judge if the attorneys had the benefit of Winning at Trial when preparing their cases. Shane draws upon his unique experiences as a civil trial lawyer, prosecutor and law professor to set forth in an original and practical way the skills needed to win in the courtroom. 

—Robert F. Chapman, former U.S. District Judge, retired U.S. Circuit Judge

Shane Read takes the mystery out of learning trial skills in this unique book, sure to revolutionize the way trial skills are taught. . . . In Winning at Trial, readers study actual trials where techniques are either executed at such a high level of excellence or so badly demonstrated that those skills needed to master winning techniques will never be  forgotten.

—Eric H. Holder, Jr., former U.S. Deputy Attorney General