Improve Your Professional Skills with Free NITA Videos

Getting ready for a new school year—and looking forward to a new career—you might benefit from some of NITA's free resources.

NITA—the National Institute for Trial Advocacy—is famous for its intensive training programs in (you guessed it!) trial advocacy. NITA offers various fee-based programs, but it also offers some free webcasts each month, with an online library of past webcasts you can view anytime. Some address skills needed in trial practice, but some are useful for any lawyer (or law student!). For example,

• Rise above the Rest: Mastering the Top 10 Communication Skills for Lawyers, PART 1  and PART 2, addresses small talk, extemporaneous speaking, meetings, and phone calls—not just formal presentations. You can use these lessons in your job interviews and networking, as well as many other settings.
• Effective Legal Strategy: Turning Problems Into Victories, coming up Aug. 25, "provides a framework for analyzing a client's circumstances, determining the client's optimal resolution, and developing effective strategy and tactics."

And of course, NITA offers lots of webcasts on trial skills, such as witness preparation, jury selection, and cross-examination. Browse the list of webcasts. Look for the ones with "$0.00" under the shopping cart, and try them out!