Workshop – Trial Advocacy Workshop 2022 (CPD 341) SOLD OUT

The Trial Advocacy Workshop is now sold out. Please contact [email protected] to be added to the waiting list, in case of cancellations. The cancellation deadline is Oct 6.

20 CPD hours, 3 of which qualify for Ethics

Registration deadline: Sep 23, 2022. Limited to 32 registrants. Venue – Ramada Plaza, 1818 Victoria Avenue, Regina. Preference given to lawyers with 15 years of less experience at the Bar. Questions regarding year admitted to the bar, number of trials as lead and as associate counsel to be completed with registration. For additional information regarding the cancellation deadline and waiting list, please view the brochure.

The Trial Advocacy Workshop returns for 2022. No matter what your level of trial experience or ability, you will benefit from the opportunity to access the knowledge and expertise of our faculty of trial judges and accomplished courtroom practitioners. Develop exceptional advocacy skills and receive constructive feedback in a small group setting. Learn from your own performances, that of the other participants, and the faculty demonstrations. Don’t miss this opportunity!

Workshop Features include:

• –Work in small groups
•   Faculty-to-student ratio of 13 instructors to 32 students

• –“Learn without the burn”
•   Concentrated practice of your advocacy skills in a supportive non-threatening environment

• –Faculty of experienced judges and lawyers
•   Access the skills and knowledge of experienced trial judges and some of Saskatchewan’s finest courtroom
•   practitioners

• –New and improved curriculum
•   Exercises will be drawn from two case files, one civil and one criminal. The exercises will develop your skills in direct
•   and cross-examination, use of exhibits, witness impeachment, re-examination, demonstrative evidence, and
•   opening and closing statements

• –Faculty critique and constructive suggestions
•   After each skills performance, you will receive constructive feedback from your instructors. Learn from your own
•   performance and those of other participants. Demonstrations by instructors will provide you with the opportunity to
•   observe effective advocacy skills.

• –Video
•   Review your video performances for additional feedback

• –Textbook included:
•  An Advocacy Primer, 4th edition

• Guest Speaker
  The Honourable Chief Justice M.D. Popescul (Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan)

• Faculty
  Justice R.W. Danyliuk (Court of Queen’s Bench, Saskatoon)
  Justice D.E. Labach (Court of Queen’s Bench, Saskatoon)
  Justice K.L. Zerr (Court of Queen’s Bench, Saskatoon)
  Judge H.M. Harradence (Provincial Court, Prince Albert)
  Judge B. Hendrickson (Provincial Court, Moose Jaw)
  Brian Banilevic, Q.C. (retired from McDougall Gauley LLP, Regina)
• Leslie Sullivan, Q.C. (Court Appointed Counsel Program, Saskatoon)
  Greg Walen, Q.C. (Scharfstein LLP, Saskatoon)
  Erin Kleisinger, Q.C. (McDougall Gauley LLP, Regina)
  Amanda Quayle, Q.C. (McDougall Gauley LLP, Regina)
  Ron Parchomchuk (Parchomchuk Sherdahl Hunter, Prince Albert)
  Cynthia Alexander (Ministry of Justice, Moose Jaw)
• Jackie Lane (Ministry of Justice, Regina)