AAJ Education
Enhance your legal knowledge and learn trial techniques, tips, and strategies to achieve a just outcome for your client. AAJ provides comprehensive, national continuing legal education (CLE) programs designed for and by experienced plaintiff trial attorneys. CLE programs include:
- Seminars
- Trial advocacy skills colleges
- AAJ Annual and Winter Conventions
- Convenience learning
AAJ Education maintains two professional recognition programs that recognize AAJ members in their pursuit of advanced legal learning and professional development—the Achievement Recognition Program and Advanced Studies in Trial Advocacy.
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Networking Tools and Practice Support
Some of your best practice resources are other plaintiff lawyers. Share insights and receive support and referrals from other members with similar interests and practice areas through AAJ's List Servers, Sections, and Litigation Groups. Thousands of resources contributed by your colleagues, and contacts for members handling similar cases, are at your fingertips through the AAJ Exchange document database.
- AAJ List Servers (plaintiff lawyers, their paralegals and sponsored law professor members)
- AAJ Exchange document databases—thousands of depositions, court documents, similar matters, experts, CLE speaker papers, and abstracts
- Access to more than 100 Litigation Groups (plaintiff lawyers only)
- Access to 18 Sections
- Membership directory
- Mentor Program
Media Training
AAJ Communications offers a free media training guide that covers everything from the fundamentals of talking to the media and developing your message to crisis communications. AAJ Communications is also available to work one-on-one with your team.
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Publications
AAJ Publications keep you informed with news of the latest legal trends and developments in civil law practice, commentary and analysis on emerging legal issues, and nationwide coverage of state and federal verdicts, settlements, and opinions in 25 areas of civil law. Our publications include:
- Trial magazine
- Class Action Law Reporter
- Motor Vehicle Law Reporter
- Products Liability Law Reporter
- Professional Negligence Law Reporter
- Section newsletters
- Member group newsletters
Advocating for You and Your Clients
AAJ is here to speak for you and your clients. AAJ runs a vigorous communications campaign to educate the public about the civil justice system and reframe the debate on the role of trial lawyers in our democracy. And through extensive political outreach efforts, AAJ works to elect pro-civil-justice legislators at both the state and federal levels.
- Political news and legislative updates—Stay up-to-date on the latest action on Capitol Hill, courthouses acoss the country, and throughout the legal landscape
- Access to state and federal lawmakers through annual conventions and in-office events
Members-Only Discounts and Offers
- Improve your bottom line and your practice through our carefully-selected provider program, AAJ Extras
- Members receive substantial discounts on CLE seminars, colleges, and teleseminars
- Members receive a discount on selected titles through West Publishing
