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 Seminar 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.

7-Step Certification Program

The Trial Lawyers College is proud of its unique training based upon psychodrama.  TLC is also proud of its uniqueness from other lawyer seminars 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 college.  Knowing this hardship, TLC offers the ability for a trail lawyer for the people to graduate through a 7-step program.   

Application for the 7- step program will track the same process as an applicant for the 3 Week College (form questions, references and essay…).  The approval process will be truncated though to save time by allowing admission upon review and acceptance by a majority vote of the TLC board.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

·       Complete 3 sessions (1 day/8 hours) of Closing Statement Trial Skills training at any TLC event offering such;

·       And at the end, attend and complete a Graduate Course which includes the same sessions included at the 3 Week College - Velveteen Rabbit, Paint, Song and Poem, and Walk in Silence.     

To assist 7- step program participants, TLC will make every effort to schedule training that support completion of the program by tracking the skills offered at each TLC training. The policy will be retroactively applied.

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