Advocacy Club Boot Camp for Junior Litigators
Two Half-Day Sessions
and paralegals, The Advocacy Club Boot Camp offers junior litigators a unique educational experience. Here, participants learn by doing.
These are the basic skills litigators should master to succeed. Best of all, participants develop a sense of collegiality with their co-participants. This peer-to-peer contact continues well beyond the Boot Camp. If you are interested in this or a future session, contact John Hollander. Cost $275 for students and paralegals, and $400 for lawyers, both plus HST.
The Boot Camp qualifies (for lawyers and paralegals in Ontario, and likely elsewhere) as 8.0 hours substantive CPD. Due to the small size of the participating groups, we cannot offer refunds, so we ask you to pay a week before the first session.
To sign up, contact John Hollander through the "Contact" page, and, when the time comes, pay through the "Store" page. Please provide the name of your firm/organization and your year of Call, or if articling or a paralegal.
Boot camps are customizable! If your department, organization or firm has four or more litigators who need this kind of training, contact us to discuss your requirements and to receive a fee quotation. For details, see our page on Custom Training here.
The graduates of all Boot Camps become Club Members. These constitute a pool of highly talented litigators. Many of them have gone on to train others in advocacy techniques, both in the Club and at the Bar (CCLA, OBA, AJEFO, uOttawa Law). Several have received recognition for their excellence as advocates, for their community service and some through election to the CCLA Board of Trustees. Some are now partners in their firms and leaders in the legal community.
Read what they say (in anonymous QA surveys):
As a lawyer in Toronto, I had never heard of the Advocacy Club before. I feel fortunate that I was introduced to the Club and was able to participate in the Advocacy Boot Camp over Zoom. This is an incredible program for lawyers at all stages in their career, and in my opinion should be essential learning. I love how the Boot Camp was participating based and the takeaways were easy to remember and apply to my practice.
I understand why the course is called a boot camp; participants work hard and are challenged! As a junior lawyer, this format worked as it allows me to establish what areas I needed to improve and work on those skills. I am significantly more confident in my advocacy skills after going through this program.
It is one thing to know what evidence you need for your case to succeed, it is another to know how to extract it from a witness in a persuasive manner. The Advocacy Bootcamp excels at teaching trial advocacy skills that lay the foundation for junior lawyers to grow and develop.
The bootcamp makes you get out of your comfort zone and practice in real-time in front of your peers, yet in a safe environment; also good as an advocacy skills refresher.
I highly recommend this Boot Camp to any young lawyer or paralegal before their examinations, cross-examinations or trials. This is not something that I learned in law school and I appreciated the opportunity to get on my feet and learn in a safe environment.
- We begin the Boot Camp with introductory exercises that teach questioning techniques, using whether for use in interviews or in examinations.
- Participants work with witness statements in a case study to develop skills to follow up where witnesses lead.
- They learn to analyze the case to develop themes.
- They learn how to create effective outlines for any examination.
- They learn the basic techniques to prepare their witness for an examination (direct, cross, discovery).
- They learn and practice direct and cross-examination techniques.
- The Boot Camp closes with a brief tutorial on the formula for a persuasive closing argument.
These are the basic skills litigators should master to succeed. Best of all, participants develop a sense of collegiality with their co-participants. This peer-to-peer contact continues well beyond the Boot Camp. If you are interested in this or a future session, contact John Hollander. Cost $275 for students and paralegals, and $400 for lawyers, both plus HST.
The Boot Camp qualifies (for lawyers and paralegals in Ontario, and likely elsewhere) as 8.0 hours substantive CPD. Due to the small size of the participating groups, we cannot offer refunds, so we ask you to pay a week before the first session.
To sign up, contact John Hollander through the "Contact" page, and, when the time comes, pay through the "Store" page. Please provide the name of your firm/organization and your year of Call, or if articling or a paralegal.
Boot camps are customizable! If your department, organization or firm has four or more litigators who need this kind of training, contact us to discuss your requirements and to receive a fee quotation. For details, see our page on Custom Training here.
The graduates of all Boot Camps become Club Members. These constitute a pool of highly talented litigators. Many of them have gone on to train others in advocacy techniques, both in the Club and at the Bar (CCLA, OBA, AJEFO, uOttawa Law). Several have received recognition for their excellence as advocates, for their community service and some through election to the CCLA Board of Trustees. Some are now partners in their firms and leaders in the legal community.
Read what they say (in anonymous QA surveys):
As a lawyer in Toronto, I had never heard of the Advocacy Club before. I feel fortunate that I was introduced to the Club and was able to participate in the Advocacy Boot Camp over Zoom. This is an incredible program for lawyers at all stages in their career, and in my opinion should be essential learning. I love how the Boot Camp was participating based and the takeaways were easy to remember and apply to my practice.
I understand why the course is called a boot camp; participants work hard and are challenged! As a junior lawyer, this format worked as it allows me to establish what areas I needed to improve and work on those skills. I am significantly more confident in my advocacy skills after going through this program.
It is one thing to know what evidence you need for your case to succeed, it is another to know how to extract it from a witness in a persuasive manner. The Advocacy Bootcamp excels at teaching trial advocacy skills that lay the foundation for junior lawyers to grow and develop.
The bootcamp makes you get out of your comfort zone and practice in real-time in front of your peers, yet in a safe environment; also good as an advocacy skills refresher.
I highly recommend this Boot Camp to any young lawyer or paralegal before their examinations, cross-examinations or trials. This is not something that I learned in law school and I appreciated the opportunity to get on my feet and learn in a safe environment.