Our Committee is dedicated to helpings its members become better trial lawyers. We have two co-chairs and a dozen different subcommittees. Our subcommittees do not have members, but instead are co-chaired by two or three practicing trial lawyers. You can find a complete list of our subcommittees on this site.

This Committee offers many opportunities for you to learn more about trial practice. For example, the committee regularly sponsors programs on trial practice at the Section Annual Conference and the ABA Annual Meeting. Four times a year, the Committee publishes its Trial Practice newsletter, which contains offering practical advice to the trial lawyer. And this website contains important articles and materials on trial practice.

The Committee also offers opportunities for its members to network with one another. Typically, we hold breakfast meetings for our members twice a year, at the Section Annual Conference and the ABA Annual Meeting. These meetings provide an opportunity for our members to meet one another and learn more about important Committee projects. In addition, each year at the Section Annual Conference, we host a dinner for all our Committee members. Through this dinner our members get to know one another in a relaxed social setting.

Lawrence Rosenberg uses Aristotle's lessons as a benchmark for improving oral arguments, while he also guides you through avoiding pitfalls and reaching success in drafting written arguments. (Presented during previous Section Annual Conferences.)

The latest article in The Jury Box explores the concept of the stealth juror. Probably best defined as a juror with a hidden agenda, the popular press and some jury consultants have played up the few instances in which seated and deliberating jurors have later been exposed for lying during jury selection.