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Law Center Hosts Trial Skills Training Program for Florida Lawyers
The National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center will host a three day Trial Skills Training Program for 48 lawyers employed by the Florida Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel. These lawyers represent indigent parents involved in dependency and termination of parental rights cases throughout Florida. Law Center students will participate in the training by serving as witnesses in the learning-by-doing trial skills portion of the program.
NITA is the nation’s leading provider of legal advocacy skills training. A not-for-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado, NITA pioneered the legal skills learning-by-doing methodology over 35 years ago and has since remained the ultimate standard in continuing legal education. With an average student/faculty ratio of 4:1 and an all-volunteer faculty drawn from a cadre of judges, law professors, and practicing attorneys, NITA’s multi-day “boot camps” deliver unparalleled professional development for nearly 6,000 attorneys each year. As a public service organization, NITA provides, at little or no cost, the same high-caliber training we provide to the nation’s largest firms to legal service attorneys, public defenders, and attorneys who have chosen to work in child advocacy, tribal law, death penalty defense, immigration, domestic violence and other vital areas of public interest. NITA is also the nation’s third largest publisher of legal publications. NITA’s references, texts, case files, and audio-visual materials are used by thousands of attorneys and are incorporated into the curriculum at over 85% of the nation’s law schools.