You have reached the registration page for all Trial Lawyers College programs. Before you register, if you want more general information about TLC and our courses, please click here. Below are the registration links for Trial Skills Seminars, Criminal Defense Seminars, 3-Week Colleges, and TLC's Grad Programs.
All TLC seminars through July 2021 will be held via virtual Zoom classroom.
All in-person programs will be conducted in compliance with Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for COVID-19 to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of participants and their family members.
Scholarships are available based on financial need and may be requested during registration for any course.
Taught by accomplished faculty teams of TLC-trained experienced trial attorneys as well as behavioral and communications experts. These courses are “hands-on” experiences. Students will learn TLC methods by doing, not suffering through endless lectures. If you want more general information about TLC and our courses, please click here.
Cross-Examination
This seminar will introduce students to advanced Trial Lawyers College cross-exam methods that empower trial lawyers to tell their clients' stories and learn to turn opposing witnesses from antagonists into witnesses whose testimony supports the case and helps to achieve justice.
2022 TBD
Closing Argument
This seminar teaches civil lawyers how to transfer death, pain, and loss into an adequate money award; and criminal defense lawyers how the client can win by an honest attack against dishonest cops and betraying prosecutors.
2022 TBD
Indigent Representation Seminar
The Indigent Representation Seminar, open to criminal defense and civil lawyers alike, will be held at a different location once/year (pending Covid restrictions).
2022 TBD
This course is by invitation only.
Trial Skills Foundation
This seminar gives students the opportunity to learn about themselves in ways that will help them become more effective trial lawyers as they fight and seek justice.
October 10-16, 2021
Approved for 42 hours of CLE
Tuition (Includes Lodging): $1,699.00
Voir Dire
This seminar introduces students to the Trial Lawyers College method of jury selection. Learn how to identify the danger points in your cases, to re-frame them into points of power, and how to approach potential jurors as an inclusive, rather than exclusive process.
2022 TBD
Direct Examination
In every element of the trial we are telling the client’s story. At our direct exam seminar, you will learn how to tell that story in new, powerful and dramatic ways with your own witnesses. TLC’s direct exam methods help you find your voice to bring their story to life so that your jury actually experiences and becomes a part of your client’s case.
Virtual SeminarPending CLE approval.
Tuition: $949.00
May 20-23, 2021
Discover the Story of Your Case
At this seminar, students will learn how to tell a story in a new, powerful, and dramatic way with their witness. These methods help students find their voice and bring their story to life so the jury actually experiences and becomes apart of their client's case.
Virtual SeminarPending CLE approval.
Tuition: $949.00
June 10-13, 2021
Psychodrama Saturdays
At these one-day workshops, students will have the opportunity to learn about themselves in ways that will help them become more effective trial lawyers as they fight and seek justice.
Designed for new-to-TLC students as an introduction to the psychodramatic methods, but also open to returning students and graduates who are looking for a refresher and reconnection.
Virtual SeminarClick on each date to register
Tuition: $200.00*
If a new-to-TLC student takes this course, they will receive $200 off the tuition for a 2021 Virtual seminar. The Ranch Club discount does not apply for this program.
Taught by accomplished teams of TLC-trained trial lawyers, behavioral experts, and communications specialists, criminal defense attorneys will learn innovative Trial Lawyers College methods through on-the-feet action methods, not sitting and listening to lectures. Students will learn how to win the hearts and minds of their jurors, even against overwhelming odds. Hands-on, small group work on cases will make newly-learned methods readily accessible in the courtroom. If you want more general information about TLC and our courses, please click here.
This comprehensive 3-week program dissects courtroom procedures with painstaking detail to provide hands-on tools toward achieving justice. Trial skills are only part of being a force in the courtroom. The trial lawyers’ power originates from within. Knowledge of oneself gives the lawyer the capability to know others and to connect with each person in the courtroom including the witnesses, the judge, and the jurors. The power of TLC’s methods come alive through creative, spontaneous, outside-the-box innovations that capture juries and move them to justice. If you want more general information about TLC and our courses, please click here.
*Please note: Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted. Admission decisions are made by the board at one time and notifications will be sent within a 6-weeks of the application deadline.
Graduate Courses, available only to TLC graduates, are intensive, one-week programs that focus on advanced trial skills, giving students a deeper understanding of TLC methods. Grad 1 teaches trial lawyers various communication and delivery skills, working on the entire horse, in addition to trial skills. Grad 2 teaches how to structure a case and trial story. If you want more general information about TLC and our courses, please click here.
*Graduate programs are by application only due to demand, with a mix of civil and criminal defense attorneys admitted. If you registered for one of the 2020 Grad courses that were cancelled due to 2020, please contact Nancy Shore (nancy@triallawyerscollege.org) for a registration link to the 2021 Grad courses.
