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Each spring, the Children's Law Center co-sponsors the Rocky Mountain Child Advocacy Training Institute, a five-day, intensive skills training conference for children's attorneys from across the country. The other sponsors are: the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), the National Association of Council for Children (NACC) and the University of Denver College of Law.
The high quality of the Advocacy Institute's training annually attracts a limited enrollment class of 56 lawyers from across the country who want to hone their courtroom child advocacy skills. Nationally respected juvenile court judges, litigators, district attorneys, and child advocacy law professors hold large group seminars and also give intensive, one-on-one advice to participants. Each participant gets to practice their newly learned advocacy techniques in small group simulation exercises. Their presentations are video-taped, so they can privately review their performance with small group instructors, and see how they come across to others.
Some of the topics and skills taught by Institute instructors include:
- Case Analysis
- Direct Examination
- Cross Examination
- Expert Witnesses
- Problem Witnesses
- Evidentiary Foundations
- Introduction and Use of Exhibits
- Impeachment and Refreshing Recollection
- Making and Meeting Objections
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For more information, call the NACC at: 1-888-828-NACC, or the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, University of Denver College of Law, at 1-303-871-6118. |
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