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Sedgwick University’s training programs are intended to sharpen our lawyers’ legal acumen and cultivate superior trial skills, while promoting the highest ethical standards. Our firm offers associates the opportunity to demonstrate and fine tune their trial advocacy skills in a courtroom setting at Sedgwick University’s Trial Academy, an intensive six-day mock trial. During this program, senior trial partners lead students through a series of realistic courtroom exercises that address individual trial skills, including voir dire, opening statements, case presentation, cross-examination and impeachment of witnesses, and closing arguments, as well as courtroom demeanor and use of technology. These skills are taught through two simultaneous tracks, one for basic skills and a second covering more advanced trial techniques.  Being selected to participate in Trial Academy is an honor coveted by those associates who are ready to take their careers to the next level.

Sedgwick University’s training programs are intended to sharpen our lawyers’ legal acumen and cultivate superior trial skills, while promoting the highest ethical standards. Our firm offers associates the opportunity to demonstrate and fine tune their trial advocacy skills in a courtroom setting at Sedgwick University’s Trial Academy, an intensive six-day mock trial. During this program, senior trial partners lead students through a series of realistic courtroom exercises that address individual trial skills, including voir dire, opening statements, case presentation, cross-examination and impeachment of witnesses, and closing arguments, as well as courtroom demeanor and use of technology. These skills are taught through two simultaneous tracks, one for basic skills and a second covering more advanced trial techniques.  Being selected to participate in Trial Academy is an honor coveted by those associates who are ready to take their careers to the next level.