In Defense of the Damned - 2025

Trial Skills Taught
Cross Examination

Location
Indiana University - Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana

When
June 9-June 13, 2025

Take your level of defending those who seem to be “damned” by society and the justice system to a higher level of advocacy in trial.

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Indigent Representation Virtual Course - June 2025

Trial Skills Taught
Direct Examination

Location
Virtual Course - Via Zoom

When
June 27-June 28, 2025

Indigent representation requires special skills. Elevate your ability to connect with your clients, navigate the complexities of their cases, and present a compelling direct examination.

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Graduate II Course - 2025

Trial Skills Taught
All Trial Skills

Location
YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park

When
September 6-September 13, 2025

Learn how to craft and present powerful stories with psychodrama, TLC methods and MOTH.

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Graduate I Course - 2025

Trial Skills Taught
All Trial Skills

Location
YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park

When
September 8-September 13, 2025

This Graduate I Course explores and deepens the understanding of the role of "director" in trial preparation and witness examinations.

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3-Week College - 2025

Trial Skills Taught
Psychodrama, Discovering the Story, Jury Selection, Opening Statement, Direct Exam, Cross Exam, and Closing Statement

Location
Camp Dawson Event Center, Kingwood, WV

When
October 4-October 27, 2025

Join the Legacy of TLC Graduates and their winning verdicts for over 30 years!

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Discover The Secrets of Phenomenal Trial Results

Courses at the Trial Lawyers College are like no other CLE. All are taught by a volunteer lawyer faculty who have all graduated from the College and who collectively have hundreds of years of experience using the TLC methods to obtain phenomenal results for their clients both in Civil Plaintiff cases and Criminal Defense. Supported by TLC-trained licensed psychodramatists and experts in Communication Arts, each course provides hands-on tools to help achieve justice for your clients. Participants work in small groups, on their feet, three sessions per day. Students work on their own cases and must come prepared to work.

Each weekend or week-long program throughout the year and at venues across the country will focus on a targeted trial skill or skills and with a special focus: a course for Women Trial Lawyers, Finding the Courage to Ask for the Money in Plaintiff cases, Trial-skill specific weekend courses, and programs specially designed for graduates of the College. Every course begins with psychodrama . Every course teaches at least one trial skill. Every course teaches that trial skills in each phase of your trials are only part of being a force in the courtroom. The trial lawyer’s true power originates from within. At every TLC program, students have the opportunity to rediscover their inner voice and build the confidence to try their cases with all of the love and compassion and credibility that their clients deserve.

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The three-week college is TLC’s flagship course. Scheduled for June 1st, 2024 at the United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico, from start to finish, this comprehensive program dissects courtroom procedures with painstaking detail to provide hands-on tools toward achieving justice for your clients.

Trial skills are only part of being a force in the courtroom. The trial lawyer’s 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.

This three-week college is led by a team of TLC-trained and experienced trial lawyers, certified and licensed psychodramatists, and communication experts who work with students, in small groups, on their own cases. This course is not about listening to lectures, or hearing about how an instructor would try your case – this course is about helping the students to find their own voice so they can try their cases with their own integrity and credibility.

Come join us. Learn how to win your cases with TLC’s methods. Meet new trial lawyers who will become life-long friends. Become reacquainted with the person you were before you started law school – before the system wore you down. Connect with a tribe of trial lawyers who want nothing more than to win justice for those who are lost, forgotten, injured and damned.

The next 3-Week College is now open for applicants, and will be held at the United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico.

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The 7-Step Program

Trial Skills Taught
Psychodrama, Discovering the Story, Voir Dire, Opening Statement, Direct Exam, Cross Exam, and Closing Statement

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For over 30 years Trial Lawyers College has been committed to training a new breed of lawyer - a warrior who has the courage to become a real person, unique and authentic. Having made that journey, our training empowers the attorney to connect to their client's emotional truth in a powerful way. Guided by a skilled faculty team, students are transformed into reliable narrators, armed to fight for justice in their own passionate voice -- a voice different from all the others.

WHAT IS THE 7-STEP PROGRAM?

The Trial Lawyers College is proud of its unique training based upon psychodrama. TLC is also proud of its uniqueness from other lawyer courses in that those who have graduated from the college join a Warrior family of alumni. Unfortunately, there are some lawyers who cannot carve out 3 weeks to attend the college. Knowing this, TLC offers the ability for a trial lawyer for the people to graduate through a 7-step program.

Step by Step

To complete your application:

- Be prepared to provide the name, telephone number and email address for 3 references

- Be prepared to upload an 850-word essay

In 850 words or less, please tell us a bit about yourself. For example, what life experiences have most shaped you? What is your greatest accomplishment and what is your greatest loss? Please tell us about your dreams and your failures. We are not interested in the name of your law school, the clubs you belong to, your golf handicap, or your financial and social success. We are interested in learning something about you as a person. We want to know your life goals as a trial lawyer, as well as what you hope to obtain from attending our program.

Your completed application will be reviewed, and you will be notified as to whether you have been accepted.

Once accepted, a student will be eligible to graduate upon the following conditions if done within 5 years of acceptance into the 7-step program.

The Process

Complete 6 sessions (2 consecutive days, 8 hours each day) of Personal Psychodrama at any TLC event

Complete 6 sessions (2 consecutive days, 8 hours each day) of Discovering the Story at any TLC event

Complete 6 sessions (2 consecutive days, 8 hours each day) of Voir Dire Trial Skills at any TLC event

Complete 3 sessions (1 day/8 hours) of Opening Statement Trial Skills training at any TLC event

Complete 3 sessions (1 day/8 hours) of Direct Examination Trial Skills training at any TLC event

Complete 3 sessions (1 day/8 hours) of Cross Examination Trial Skills training at any TLC event

Complete 3 sessions (1 day/8 hours) of Closing Argument Trial Skills training at any TLC event

At the end, attend and complete a Graduate Course which includes the final elements needed to graduate.

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In Defense of the Damned - 2025

Indigent Representation Virtual Course - June 2025

Graduate II Course - 2025

Graduate I Course - 2025

3-Week College - 2025

Discover The Secrets of Phenomenal Trial Results

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2024 Course Calendar

Upcoming Courses

In Defense of the Damned - 2025

Indigent Representation Virtual Course - June 2025

Graduate II Course - 2025

Graduate I Course - 2025

3-Week College - 2025

Discover The Secrets of Phenomenal Trial Results

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What People Are Saying About The 3-Week College

Ind Rep Overcome BIas

Ind Rep Not Alone

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TLC Faculty Offer Space

Ind Rep Virtual Format

Ind Rep Do It

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