2021 NYSBA Trial Academy
*This Program Is Sold Out*
Attend the revitalized virtual 2021 NYSBA Trial Academy, a five-day trial techniques program, for a career changing experience:
- Work with your small group Team Leader to learn critical trial skills
- Attend daily lectures given by distinguished trial attorneys and judges
- Benefit from one-on-one critiques of your performance
- Gain mentors for your professional life, and become part of the invaluable Trial Academy community
In addition to this program, you will receive access to all 13 webinars detailing virtual trial techniques that you won't find anywhere else after you complete the course. The virtual series includes topics from Expert Testimony to Handling a Virtual Hearing and everything in between. We will email you a link to one of the segments, on the topic of Jury Selection, before the program to view as it's an essential part of the curriculum.
- March 14, 2021
- March 18, 2021
- 10:45 AM
- 12:30 PM
- 1.0
- 2.0
- 32.5
- 35.5
- Virtual Participation
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Please view prior to the start of the program the Pre-Recorded Jury Selection webinar created for Trial Academy presented by David Louis Cohen, Esq.
10:45 am – 11:00 am Welcome and Introductions
Sherry Levin Wallach, Esq., Program Chair, NYSBA President-Elect Designee, Trial Academy Co-Founder, Deputy Executive Director, The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County
Tucker C. Stanclift, Esq., Trial Academy Co-Founder, Stanclift Law PLLC, Queensbury, NY
Daniel G. Ecker, Esq., Trial Lawyers Section Trial Academy Committee Chair, Lever & Ecker, PLLC, White Plains, NY
11:00 am – 12:15 pm Opening Statements – Live Lecture (1.5 MCLE credits in Skills)
12:15 pm – 12:30 pm Faculty Demonstration of Jury Selection
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Team Meetings – Breakout Sessions on Jury Selection
Participants are assigned a team which will be led by an experienced Team Leader. During each team meeting, participants will each present a demonstration to the Team of a Jury Selection/Voir Dire based on a provided fact pattern. The critique faculty will provide constructive feedback and guidance following each presentation. In addition, each participant will meet individually with one faculty member in a virtual “playback” session, where they will view a recording of their presentation and discuss their strengths and ways to improve their performance to hone their skills. (3.5 MCLE Credit in Skills)
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Announcements Regarding Next Day and Adjourn
Monday, March 15, 2021
8:30 am – 10:10 am Trial Ethics – Live Lecture (2.0 MCLE Credits Ethics)
10:10 am – 10:20 am Break
10:20 am – 12:00 pm Direction Examinations – Live Lecture (2.0 MCLE Credits Skills)
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm Faculty Demonstration of Opening Statements
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm Lunch
12:45 pm – 4:15 pm Team Meetings – Breakout Sessions on Opening Statements
Participants are assigned a team which will be led by an experienced Team Leader. During each team meeting, participants will each present to the Team a demonstration of an Opening Statement based on a provided fact pattern. The critique faculty will provide constructive feedback and guidance following each presentation. In addition, each participant will meet individually with one faculty member in a virtual “playback” session, where they will view a recording of their presentation and discuss their strengths and ways to improve their performance to hone their skills. (3.5 MCLE Credit in Skills)
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
8:30 am – 10:10 am Cross Examinations Part I – Live Lecture (2.0 MCLE Credits in Skills)
10:10 am – 10:20 am Break
10:20 am – 12:00 pm Cross Examinations Part II – Live Lecture (2.0 MCLE Credits in Skills)
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Faculty Demonstration of Direct Examination
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm Lunch
12:45 pm – 4:15 pm Team Meetings – Breakout Sessions on Direct Examinations
Participants are assigned a team which will be led by an experienced Team Leader. During each team meeting, participants will each present to the Team a demonstration of a Direct Examination based on a provided fact pattern. The critique faculty will provide constructive feedback and guidance following each presentation. In addition, each participant will meet individually with one faculty member in a virtual “playback” session, where they will view a recording of their presentation and discuss their strengths and ways to improve their performance to hone their skills. (3.5 MCLE Credits in Skills)
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
8:30 am – 9:20 am Evidence, Foundations & Objections – Live Lecture (1.0 MCLE Credits in Skills)
9:20am-10:10am Trial Motions and Motions In Limine – Live Lecture (1.0 MCLE Credits in Skills)
10:10 am – 10:20 am Break
10:20 am – 12:00 pm Closing Arguments – Live Lecture (2.0 MCLE Credits in Skills)
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm Faculty Demonstration Cross Examination
12:15 – 12:45 pm Lunch
12:45 pm – 4:15 pm Team Meetings – Breakout Sessions on Cross Examinations
Participants are assigned a team which will be led by an experienced Team Leader. During each team meeting, participants will each present to the Team a demonstration of a Cross Examination based on a provided fact pattern. The critique faculty will provide constructive feedback and guidance following each presentation. In addition, each participant will meet individually with one faculty member in a virtual “playback” session, where they will view a recording of their presentation and discuss their strengths and ways to improve their performance to hone their skills. (3.5 MCLE Credits in Skills)
Thursday, March 18, 2021
8:30 am – 9:00 am Final Announcements | Faculty Demonstration of Closing Argument
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Team Meetings – Breakout Sessions on Closing Arguments
Participants are assigned a team which will be led by an experienced Team Leader. During each team meeting, participants will each present to the Team a demonstration of a Closing Argument based on a provided fact pattern. The critique faculty will provide constructive feedback and guidance following each presentation. In addition, each participant will meet individually with one faculty member in a virtual “playback” session, where they will view a recording of their presentation and discuss their strengths and ways to improve their performance to hone their skills. (3.5 MCLE Credits in Skills)
- Sherry Levin Wallach, Speaker, Trial Academy Co-Founder, Deputy Executive Director, The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County
- Tucker C. Stanclift, Trial Academy Co-Founder, Stanclift Law PLLC
- Timothy J. Fennell, Amdursky, Pelky, Fennell & Wallen PC
- Eric H. Sills, Gerstenzang, Sills, Cohn & Gerstanzang
- Carrie H. Cohen, Morrison & Forrester LLP
- Richard D. Collins, Collins Gann McCloskey & Barry PLLC
- Peter Gerstenzang, Gerstenzang, Sills, Cohn & Gerstanzang
- Michael O'Brien, Chair, Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section; O'Brien Law Firm PLLC
- Steven B. Epstein, Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & Loturco LLP
- Marc C. Gann, Collins Gann McCloskey & Barry PLLC
- Daniel G. Ecker, Speaker, Trial Lawyers Section Trial Academy Committee Chair, Lever & Ecker, PLLC
- Joseph D. Morath, Jr., Connors LLP
- Kaylin L. Whittingham, Whittingham Law & The Legal Ethics Lab
- Nicholas J. DeMartino, Attorney at Law
- Hon. Deborah H. Karalunas, Supreme Court Justice, Onondaga County Commercial Division
- Hon. Erin P. Gall, Speaker, Supreme Court Justice, Oneida County Supreme Court
- Hon. Guy H. Mitchell, Justice of the Supreme Court Criminal Term
- Hon. Kimberly A. O'Connor, Supreme Court Justice, Albany County Supreme Court
- Peter J. Moschetti, Anderson Moschetti & Taffany
- Vincent E. Doyle, III, Former NYSBA President; Connors LLP
- Laurie Vahey, Speaker, Vahey Muldoon Reston Getz LLP
- Welcome Remarks: Dean Craig M. Boise, Speaker, Dean and Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY
- Julie D’Agostino, Of Counsel to Mangi and Graham, LLP
- Cynthia Lobo, Speaker, Lobo Law Firm, New Rochelle, NY
- Welcome Remarks: Scott M. Karson, President, New York State Bar Association
- Webinar
- 0HY41
- Antitrust Law Section
