The Hofstra Comprehensive Trial Skills Program is an intensive immersion experience. It is an innovative program that, in a single intensive educational experience, provides basic training in all of the basic lawyering skills involved in civil and criminal litigation. The critical skills of settlement negotiation will be introduced as will the essential pre-trial discovery technique of the deposition. Students will conduct both a bench trial and a jury trial. This course is given on ten consecutive days in January.
Attendance is required and is taken daily.
The program is open to second and third-year students who have completed the basic course in Evidence. Trial Techniques is also available on the same basis to students graduating in January. Interested students should obtain registration and tuition information from the Registrar's Office in early October preceding the January in which they seek to enroll. The original intensive trial program was developed by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for the training of practicing lawyers. It has been offered annually at Boulder, Colorado and regionally at Hofstra, North Carolina, Arizona, Northwestern, Oregon and elsewhere.