Who we are
The Advocacy Club was founded in 2007 to train articling students and junior lawyers in the arts of civil advocacy. The bio of the founder, John Hollander, can be found on the Contact page. Since 2007, it has expanded to include over a thousand participants, now including paralegals and law school students, from many law firms, government organizations, NGOs and law schools.
The Club's sessions are based on these principles:
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Collegiality, professionalism, and competence are interrelated and form the foundation for a successful career in law.
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Trainees learn more by doing than by listening to lectures.
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Junior advocates benefit greatly from networking with other like-minded professionals.
What we do
The Advocacy Club Boot Camp is the perfect introduction to civil trial advocacy for junior lawyers, paralegals, and articled/articling students who seek practical techniques for planning and conducting examinations, cross-examinations, and final argument. The Boot Camp is experiential CPD, small seminar teams led by a senior litigator, John Hollander.
The Advocacy Club also offers advanced programs that stem from the Boot Camp on diverse subjects:
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Advanced direct and cross-examination topics.
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Discovery techniques.
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Public speaking.
How we work
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Our programs are small. Typically, we take fewer than ten participants per instructor.
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Our programs are experiential. Participants learn by doing, working from case studies based on actual cases.
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Our programs are customizable. We can mould our content, including the case study, to fit the needs of participants.
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Our programs are cost-effective. Compare our pricing to any other experiential CPD provider.
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Our instructors have all "been there and done that". Civil litigators who have pleaded in the courtroom and both taken and led boot camps.