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Attend Your First AAJ Education College for 25% Off!*

If you have been admitted to the bar for 5 years or less, you can attend your first AAJ Education College for 25% off the regular price!

Gain from Others' Experience

AAJ Education Colleges combine lectures, demonstrations, and workshops where you and fellow trial lawyers practice your skills in opening, direct and cross-examination, and closing with intensive feedback from nationally known plaintiff lawyers and trial consultants. All trial skills college workshops are videotaped for you to take home to refine your style and become more confident, powerful, and persuasive in the courtroom.

Colleges you are eligible to attend with this special member benefit include:

Trial Advocacy College:
Essentials of Civil Litigation

Program Highlights
Theming a Plaintiff's Case
Persuasion in Voir Dire
Developing a Discovery Plan
Effective Cross-Examination of Experts
Videotaped Workshop Presentations and Critiques
Mock Trial

Trial Advocacy College: Depositions

Program Highlights
Ten Rules of Effective Depositions
Theming and Sequencing
Preparing Your Witness
Demonstrations of Lay and Expert Depositions
Using Deposition at Trial

Trial Advocacy College:
Direct and Cross-Examination

Program Highlights
Effective Cross-Examination of Lay and Expert Witnesses
Getting the Jury to Listen to Your Expert
Videotape of Your Workshops
Live Focus Group Demonstration

*Offer not applicable to those who have already attended a college or seminar.

To register and receive your discount, call AAJ Education at 800-622-1791.
View a complete list of all AAJ Education Programs.

The Essentials course helped me better understand my strengths and weaknesses, gave me the confidence to work with both, and introduced me to mentors and peers who have continuously helped me grow as an attorney and person. The experience was invaluable, and I reap the benefits of it daily.

-Fellow NLD Governor Annie B. Williams

You'll Gain Professional Recognition

AAJ rewards excellence. And attending your first seminar will be the start of your participation in the National College of Advocacy's (NCA) Achievement Recognition Program. When you have completed 30 hours of AAJ-sponsored courses, you'll receive a certificate identifying you as having earned the designation of "Advocate." By earning 200 hours, you will achieve the status of "Fellow." When you have earned 400 credit hours and also completed the Ultimate Trial Advocacy Course: Art of Persuasion, you may display a certificate showing you have joined those distinguished trial lawyers privileged to display AAJ's highest honor, that of "Diplomate of Trial Advocacy." For more information, click here.

For more information about any of the above, please call AAJ Education at 800-622-1791.

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