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Workshop – Trial Advocacy Workshop 2025 (CPD 433)
November 6, 2025 @ 10:00 am - November 8, 2025 @ 2:00 pm CST
SOLD OUT. Please contact CPD to be added to the wait list.
Limited to 32 registrants. Registration deadline: Thursday, September 18, 2025.
Preference given to lawyers with 15 years or 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 accommodations, the cancellation deadline and the waiting list, please view the brochure.
Qualifies for 20 CPD hours, 3 of which qualify for Ethics
Ramada Plaza, Downtown Regina – 1818 Victoria Avenue
The Trial Advocacy Workshop returns for 2025!
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
- Comprehensive 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
Erin Kleisinger, K.C. (McDougall Gauley LLP)
- Faculty
Justice R.W. Danyliuk (Court of King’s Bench, Saskatoon)
Justice K.L. Kerr (Court of King’s Bench, Saskatoon)
Judge M. Marquette (Provincial Court, Wynyard)
Judge B. Hendrickson (Provincial Court, Moose Jaw) - Judge M.A. Segu (Provincial Court, Meadow Lake)
- Judge C. Alexander (Provincial Court, Regina)
- Greg Walen, K.C. (retired from Scharfstein LLP, Saskatoon)
Brian Banilevic, K.C. (retired from McDougall Gauley LLP, Regina) - Darcia Schirr, K.C. (retired from McKercher LLP, Regina)
- Amanda Quayle, K.C. (McDougall Gauley LLP, Regina)
- Jackie Lane (Ministry of Justice, Regina)
- Jeff Deagle (Miller Thomson LLP, Regina)
- Dana J. Brûlé (Public Prosecutions, Regina)
- Thomas Hynes (Pfefferle Law, Saskatoon)
For additional information regarding accommodations, the cancellation deadline and the waiting list, please view the brochure. Once the workshop is full, please contact [email protected] to be added to the waiting list.
