Are you a 2L or 3L who wants to learn more about opening statements, expert witnesses, or Moot Court tryouts? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then mark your calendars for the fall 2015 Advocacy Skills Lunch Workshops.
The LSU Law Center’s Advocacy Programs are sponsoring a series of brown-bag lunch workshops every Tuesday and Wednesday during the fall 2015 semester, from 12:40 to 1:40 in Room 214. Designed to give 2L and 3L students exposure to a number of different courtroom skills, these workshops will complement participation in the many internal competitions offered at LSU Law, and also to assist students in developing skills that may be assessed in the Advocacy Programs’ moot court and trial advocacy team tryouts. No experience in courtroom practice is necessary to participate!
Participation is completely voluntary, signing up is not required, attendance will not be taken, and students may elect to participate in some but not all of the workshops at their option. The same material will be covered in both the Tuesday and Wednesday training sessions each week. Professor Jeffrey Brooks and the coaches of the Advocacy Program will teach the workshops.
The fall 2015 schedule of workshops is below:
- August 25 & 26 – Opening Statements
- September 1 & 2 – Cross Examinations
- September 8 & 9 – Basics of Exhibits and Objections
- September 15 & 16 – Direct Examinations
- September 22 & 23 – Moot Court Tryouts Primer
- September 29 & 30 – Closing Arguments
- October 6 & 7 – Expert Witnesses
- October 13 & 14 – Motion Practice
- October 20 & 21 – Depositions
The LSU Law Center’s Advocacy Programs are one of the largest law student advocacy skills training programs in the United States. With over 150 student participants annually participating in six different LSU-hosted internal advocacy competitions, over twenty-five traveling advocacy competition teams, a series of skills workshops and boot camps, and related simulation courses, the LSU Law Center Advocacy Programs provide students with an exceptional array of opportunities to develop their skills as persuasive advocates.
