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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Daniel McHugh
Programs Sales and Marketing Manager
National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Phone: 877.648.2632; Fax: 720.890.7069
E-mail: dmchugh@nita.org
NITA Announces Two New Programs
Program Directors Pioneer Two Programs at the Forefront of Advocacy Training
Louisville, Colo. (July 15, 2008)—The
National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) has announced that two new trial
advocacy training programs will be offered this fall for lawyers around the
country.
Advocacy
from Start to Finish was created to help the litigator learn all of the facets of
trial advocacy from the beginning to the end. NITA program director John Sonsteng
developed this new program, which takes place over the course of an entire week,
to give participants an unparalleled experience. “This
is active, collaborative training,” said Sonsteng. “This program allows
participants to evaluate their skills in every stage of litigation so they can
gauge where they are and then have positive things to build on.”
Some young attorneys do not
always receive enough training in areas like expert examination, jury selection
and technology in the courtroom. This program seeks to remedy this by providing
attendees with a full-learning experience. After participants practice skills
for every step of litigation, the program will close with half-day trials
taking place in courtrooms fitted with state-of-the-art technology including
smart boards, computers, and DVD equipment. Advocacy from Start to Finish will
be held from September 13-19 in St.
Paul, Minnesota, at
the William Mitchell College of Law.
Jury selection is one of the
most important phases of trial, and it’s a problem when this process becomes routine
and lawyers lack the right intention. In order to retrain lawyers in the art of
jury selection Mark
Caldwell and Martin
Sabelli have created one of NITA’s newest trial advocacy programs, The Art of Jury Selection.
Lawyers
sometimes layer on expectations about perfection and control, which generate
anxiety and can have consequences after the jury selection process. These
inherent complications are why Sabelli and Caldwell set out to create this
program. As Sabelli said, “We need to re-learn what is natural to us: listening
and being guided by the potential jurors so that we can determine, as we would
in any conversation, which opinions of the juror matter to us.”
The Art of Jury Selection will
take place at the NITA Education Center
in Louisville, Colo. from September 11–13. This program is
one of three classes that qualify participants for the NITA Advocate Designation. NITA offers financial aid and payment
plans to those who may need tuition assistance.
For more information about NITA or either of these
programs, visit www.nita.org.
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.
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