technology augmented trial advocacy

Please check the calendar regularly for additional dates.

This course may also be taught on-site at your law firm or legal organization.          

Call CLCT (757) 221-2494 for details. 

CLCT is now offering the Technology Augmented Trial Advocacy Certification Course.  In this two-day course you will practice creating persuasive courtroom presentations using the most popular hardware and presentation software available in today’s courtrooms. You will partner with other participants to “try” a case using state-of-the-art technology and learn to:

• Use PowerPoint® & legal presentation software to enhance your evidence presentation
• Create persuasive slides for evidence, openings and closings
• Create presentations using digital pictures and scanned documents to highlight and display your
  evidence
• Call attention to digital exhibits during witness testimony
• Annotate electronic exhibits on-the-fly

Successful completion of this course will certify you as a Basic Technology Augmented Trial Lawyer by the Center for Legal and Court Technology.

“This is a very comprehensive program designed to bring a beginner up to speed, but also very useful to a more experienced trial lawyer...I would highly recommend it to lawyers with different levels of trial experience."
Member of the Oregon Chapter of the Federal Bar Association

Program Content

• Successful and efficient use of courtroom technology:
  Examine courtroom technologies available in the United States and their value to modern trial lawyers
• Technology at trial:
  Observe a high-tech demonstration trial
• Litigation technology:
  Experiment with presentation and litigation support software and the effective use of courtroom equipment -- the high-tech alternative to blackboards and flipcharts
• Skill exercises:
  Practice direct and cross-examinations, opening statements and closing arguments using technology
• Interrelationship of the Constitution, federal rules of evidence, and technologically-presented evidence:
  Preparing counsel to make and respond to objections common to technology-enhanced litigation
• Trial practicum:
  Team up and “try” a criminal or civil case using technologies

One-Hour Ethics Lunch Course

"What's the ‘Meta’ With Your Documents? -- The Secrets Your Electronic Documents Are Giving Away and How to Fix Them."
When you send documents to opposing counsel via e-mail do you know what client confidences or internal information you may also be providing? This course is designed to explain the ethical and practical dangers of electronic document "metadata" and give you the skills necessary to send correspondence confidently and safely.

CLE Credit

This course has been approved for 13.0 credit hours including (1.0) credit hour for Ethics by the Virginia Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board. Note: the course may be accredited for between 10-13 hours (plus one hour of ethics) depending on the number of participants

Please call us at (757) 221-2494 to check on CLE credit for your state.

 

Registration Information:

The cost of the course is $550 per participant. Cost for government attorneys and firms sending more than three participants is $450 per participant.

Please note: The online registration is for both online and mail-in payments. To pay by check, complete the online registration, print a copy of the invoice and mail it in to us with the payment. The mailing address for payments is:

Center for Legal and Court Technology
P.O. Box 3050
Williamsburg, VA 23187-3050

 

 

We reserve the right to cancel this course if the minimum number of participants are not registered two weeks before the course is scheduled to be held.