Dinner meetings feature guest speakers on current issues. Speakers have included Alaskan judges, physicians and legislators, as well as legal experts and academics from other states. Members may request information on any issue, including measures currently under consideration by the Alaska State Legislature. The Academy sponsors civil litigation and criminal defense seminars and an annual Litigators' Conference. Both feature nationally or locally recognized speakers and experts in civil and criminal law.
Members receive discounts on all seminars.
In 1997, the Academy joined with other trial lawyer aassociations to access a national deposition bank. DepoConnect provides member plaintiff lawyers the ability to keywork search thousands of depositions, seminar papers, legal documents, exhibits and expert leads in a nationwide database in a matter of seconds. The Alaska Action Trust represents the interests of trial lawyers and the general public before the Alaska Legislature. The Trust addresses and monitors many issues, including insurance reform, criminal law, auto insurance, family law, workplace safety and worker s compensation. The Alaska Action Trust works to protect and defend individual rights under the civil justice system.