Fred Lane's ISBA Trial Technique Institute

54 MCLE hours for the entire course! (27 MCLE hours per semester)
Sessions are audio-video taped so that you can see and hear improvements in your voice, manner and trial technique.
Learn and practice new trial techniques for both plaintiff's and defendant's attorneys.
Counts towards admission to the Federal Trial Bar – U.S. Court , Northern District of IL

Spring Semester begins February 16!

The Course

The course consists of two seminars (total of 54 hours), approximately four months per semester (Fall Semester: September through January; Spring Semester: February through June). You may start with the semester of your choice. Breaks for holiday consideration do exist. Each class meets one evening per week on Tuesdays from 5:15 P.M. until 6:45 P.M. at the Illinois State Bar Association - Chicago Regional Office, 20 South Clark Street - Suite 900 (map and directions).

The Cost

$875 for members of the Illinois State Bar Association
$1,500 for non-members

You are invited to attend the first session free!

"After the first class, I was hooked. I should have taken this course many years ago."
~ James E. Keps, 2007 graduate of Fred Lane's Trial Technique Institute

The Structure

Each session is audio-video taped so you may see and hear the improvements in YOUR voice, manner and trial technique.

This is not a lecture course. It is a “learn-by-doing” method only that covers all phases of trials. You will learn and practice the new trial techniques, including the psychological formulae for proof of facts for both plaintiff and defendant attorneys. Introduce x-rays, books of account, customs, lost instruments, carbon copies, depositions, telephone conversations, and experiments. The course also covers demonstrative evidence, refreshing memory, objections, offers of proof, hypothetical questions, medical proof, direct and cross-examination of experts, cardinal principals of cross-examination, and impeachment of witness. You will receive practice in the selection of Juries, making winning Opening Statements and Closing Arguments to the jury in various types of:

Personal Injury Cases: Motor vehicle. malpractice, product liability, attractive nuisance, federal employers’ liability, wrongful death, suits against municipalities, dram shops, airline cases, etc.

Contract Cases: Goods, wares and merchandise, breach of contract, real estate broker’s commission, and life insurance.

Special Actions: Will contests, assault and battery, slander, malicious prosecution, false arrest and imprisonment.

"I'm grateful to Fred Lane for teaching me the fundamentals of trial technique."
~ Thomas Mauet, nationally recognized author and lecturer

The Instructor

Fred Lane of Lane and Lane is a former Assistant State’s Attorney, has had over 40 years of litigation experience. Mr. Lane is a lecturer and author: author of Lane's Goldstein Trial Technique (3 vols.): editor of Medical Trial Technique Quarterly: author of Lane Medical Litigation Guide (4 vols.): author of Lane’s Goldstein Litigation Forms (3 vol.). Mr. Lane is also past president of the following organizations and associations: Illinois Trial Lawyers Association: Diplomat and Past President of the American Board of Trial Advocates IL; Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Past President of the Illinois State Bar Association: and Past President of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers.

Co-Directors and Faculty Members: Fred Lane and Scott Lane

Guest Faculty:

Robert A. Clifford – Clifford Law Offices;
Joseph A. Power – Power, Rogers & Smith;
Kevin T. Martin – Swanson, Martin & Bell;
Justice Michael J. Gallagher – IL Appellate Court;
Philip H. Corboy – Corboy & Demetrio;
Pamela L. Gellen – Lowis & Gellen; and,
Andrew Kopon, Jr. – Kopon Airdo, LLC.

Class Dates

Spring Semester

February 16, 23
March 2, 9, 16, 23
April 6, 13, 20, 27
May 4, 11, 18, 25
June 1, 8, 15, 22

Register

Contact Joyce Williams at (312) 726-8775 for more information

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