Rules & Case Selection is the sole entrance to the Keenan Trial Institute. Completing Rules give students the right to attend other KTI courses. Imagine leaving the Rules class with the introduction to an opening statement focused on winning your case in the first four and a half minutes. Trial Lawyers first learn the dirt [...]
Learn how to present and Facilitate Focus Groups inexpensively and efficiently. You will join other trial lawyers in small groups and you will conduct Focus Groups to live group participants. You will present your own case to the Group. You will identify biases and prejudices and see how they affect your case. Choose the Keenan [...]
The amount of material is challenging. But there is a right way and wrong way to do Focus Groups and the results are dependent on doing them the right way. The Edge FG System teaches you HOW TO do many more FG and HOW TO get the most from your FG. Topics expected to [...]
The Keenan Trial Institute’s course on voir dire will teach you the Keenan system of jury selection. The organized template can be used immediately to put your jury selection on steroids. Imagine having a focus-group tested, Keenan-created and approved jury selection system that includes each piece of the Edge symphony. We will review the student’s [...]
You will learn how to do the limited VD, how to determine which jurors to strike, and the use of focus groups to know your juror strike profile. Pre-requisites: Completion of 7 undergraduate KTI courses. Cost: $1500
In the Keenan Trial Institute’s small-group “Witness Prep” course, you’ll learn Keenan’s art and science of effective witness prep. You’ll learn that when it comes to testifying, there’s no such thing as a bad client. On the contrary, you’ll be coached through turning your client into your best witness. This game-changer is one of the [...]
In this Advanced Course you will work with a mock client to take your Witness Prep skills to the next level. The small group setting will give you solid critiques and advice on how to prepare your witness in the best way. Role Play will include: The Guilt Burdened Client The Client with a Percentage of [...]
In Mediation, through a case that you bring, you will learn the psychology of settlements – what works and what doesn’t. By role playing the defense lawyer and mediator, this course will teach you to forcefully show the powerful issues in your case, present the visual case, and the principal of moving money. Additionally, you [...]
In the KTI Advanced Mediation Graduate Course we delve deeper into the Keenan System of Mediation and using new tools to successfully get closure for your clients. You will build on the approach to mediation taught at the KTI undergraduate level. You will learn to focus on the buttons which will make life difficult for [...]
Rules & Case Selection is the sole entrance to the Keenan Trial Institute. Completing Rules give students the right to attend other KTI courses. Imagine leaving the Rules class with the introduction to an opening statement focused on winning your case in the first four and a half minutes. Trial Lawyers first learn the dirt [...]
In Keenan Trial Institute’s “Depositions” small-group course, our Faculty will work one-on-one with you and your current case to maximize your depositions. We’ll coach you through creating your hit list, deciding on and carrying out your question format, and using the deposition process and results to assemble and fine tune your direct and cross outlines [...]
The updated Openings is a cutting-edge course that builds, expands and gives us brand new elements to the opening statement. This course will teach you how Papa Don has been constructing his opening statements, that have now been tried and tested in hundreds of focus groups and trials. This course will give you the tools [...]
Rules & Case Selection is the sole entrance to the Keenan Trial Institute. Completing Rules give students the right to attend other KTI courses. Imagine leaving the Rules class with the introduction to an opening statement focused on winning your case in the first four and a half minutes. Trial Lawyers first learn the dirt [...]
To be a great Trial Lawyer we must first become a great cross examiner. The Keenan Trial Institute’s Cross-Examination course teaches Trial Lawyers to experience in Real Time the Root Cause of their cross-examination System Failures. Through Don Keenan’s Expectation Focus Group, faculty instruction on Don Keenan’s 7 Rules For Cross Exam, and student role [...]
This course focuses on developing the depo HIT LIST and role playing to achieve the hits. Most importantly the course teaches how to turn the results of the HIT LIST into use in editing video clips for mediation and ultimately cross exam at trial. Role play and practice is central to the course. You do [...]
The amount of material is challenging. But there is a right way and wrong way to do Focus Groups and the results are dependent on doing them the right way. The Edge FG System teaches you HOW TO do many more FG and HOW TO get the most from your FG. Topics expected to be [...]
Nearly every Trial Lawyer’s favorite part of the trial is closing argument. At the Keenan Trial Institute’s Closing Liability course, Your Time will be spent learning how to win your case in your closing argument. Through Don Keenan’s Dirt Simple System, you will learn how to present your case in an organized, easy to understand [...]
Direct Exam students will quickly remember what we all know to be true but oftentimes overlook: The lawyer must get out of the way and allow the client to tell their story. When we get out of the way, let our clients do the storytelling, our client becomes the most powerful witness at trial. During [...]
This 3-day course teaches the Black Letter Law used for all Keenan Trial Methods. How to Weaponize the Black Letter Law; How to Make proper arguments for all Keenan Trial Methods, and How to Write trial briefs to provide the judge with the relevant case law, motions in limine, and responses to motions in limine for [...]
Learn how to present and Facilitate Focus Groups inexpensively and efficiently. You will join other trial lawyers in small groups and you will conduct Focus Groups to live group participants. You will present your own case to the Group. You will identify biases and prejudices and see how they affect your case. Choose the Keenan [...]
The amount of material is challenging. But there is a right way and wrong way to do Focus Groups and the results are dependent on doing them the right way. The Edge FG System teaches you HOW TO do many more FG and HOW TO get the most from your FG. Topics expected to [...]
The Keenan Trial Institute’s course on voir dire will teach you the Keenan system of jury selection. The organized template can be used immediately to put your jury selection on steroids. Imagine having a focus-group tested, Keenan-created and approved jury selection system that includes each piece of the Edge symphony. We will review the student’s [...]
You will learn how to do the limited VD, how to determine which jurors to strike, and the use of focus groups to know your juror strike profile. Pre-requisites: Completion of 7 undergraduate KTI courses. Cost: $1500
Rules & Case Selection is the sole entrance to the Keenan Trial Institute. Completing Rules give students the right to attend other KTI courses. Imagine leaving the Rules class with the introduction to an opening statement focused on winning your case in the first four and a half minutes. Trial Lawyers first learn the dirt [...]
The Admitted Liability course is one of our specialized courses and is an elective course. TOPICS INCLUDE: Low Speed Collision Cases Intake & Pre-Existing Conditions The Plaintiff’s Case Using the Edge on Witnesses Overcoming Insurance Hardball Methods And many more. As with all KTI courses, you’ll get hands-on guidance developing and optimizing Damages tactics for [...]
In Mediation, through a case that you bring, you will learn the psychology of settlements – what works and what doesn’t. By role playing the defense lawyer and mediator, this course will teach you to forcefully show the powerful issues in your case, present the visual case, and the principal of moving money. Additionally, you [...]
In the KTI Advanced Mediation Graduate Course we delve deeper into the Keenan System of Mediation and using new tools to successfully get closure for your clients. You will build on the approach to mediation taught at the KTI undergraduate level. You will learn to focus on the buttons which will make life difficult for [...]
In the Keenan Trial Institute’s small-group “Witness Prep” course, you’ll learn Keenan’s art and science of effective witness prep. You’ll learn that when it comes to testifying, there’s no such thing as a bad client. On the contrary, you’ll be coached through turning your client into your best witness. This game-changer is one of the [...]
In this Advanced Course you will work with a mock client to take your Witness Prep skills to the next level. The small group setting will give you solid critiques and advice on how to prepare your witness in the best way. Role Play will include: The Guilt Burdened Client The Client with a Percentage of [...]
The Advanced Opening is a new cutting-edge course that builds, expands and gives us brand new elements to the opening statement. This course will teach you how Papa Don has been constructing his opening statements, that have now been tried and tested in hundreds of focus groups and trials. This course will give you the [...]
The Keenan Trial Institute’s course on trial is where all the pieces of the Keenan Trial System come together. You will learn how all the key points from the other KTI Courses fit together that will take away the fear of going to trial. You will learn how each phase of the case work up [...]
Rules & Case Selection is the sole entrance to the Keenan Trial Institute. Completing Rules give students the right to attend other KTI courses. Imagine leaving the Rules class with the introduction to an opening statement focused on winning your case in the first four and a half minutes. Trial Lawyers first learn the dirt [...]
One of the most critical Courses taught at the Keenan Trial Institute is Damages. This small-group CLE course will provide you with the tools to take your case from a set of facts and turn it into a powerful weapon ready to be presented to a jury for an explosive verdict. Everything taught at the Damages [...]
