42nd Annual National

Trial Advocacy College

January 6–11, 2024
University of Virginia School of Law

Are you a practicing lawyer who wants to be a confident, collected, and successful advocate? No matter what the litigation context—mediation, bench, or jury trial—effective advocacy is a skill you must have and can acquire.

Virginia CLE® invites you to experience the nation’s premier hands-on trial advocacy program.

This one-week program has changed the careers and lives of thousands of lawyers in the last four decades.

Participants will:

  • Receive the most intensive hands-on advocacy training possible.

  • Learn from daily presentations and captivating demonstrations by the finest trial lawyers and judges in the nation.

  • Practice every day with a small group of lawyers with similar experience.

  • Complete the week by trying an entire case in a mock trial.

  • Leave the program prepared to persuade and argue any aspect of a case at any phase of the litigation.

“I never thought I could gain so much in just one week.”

— Attendee