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March 2020
Undergraduate: Depositions (Atlanta, GA)
$1200
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »Elective: Women’s Summit (Atlanta, GA)
$500
This is an elective course reserved for female attorneys only. We look forward to this 2 day session providing improvements for women in the field. We will cover the following topics: The roadmap to the “model” female trial lawyer. Things you knew all along but never had permission to use. How to use our strengths to their advantage. Women’s Secret Weapon: What you already have in your wheelhouse and how to tap into it And many more Only 16 seats…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Mediation (Atlanta, GA)
$1200
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 will come to understand the preconditions to mediation that lead to effective and successful presentation of your case. You will understand the dynamic of how…
Find out more »April 2020
Undergraduate: Trial (VIRTUAL)
$1200
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 affects the ultimate outcome at trial and how an ounce of prevention in the beginning saves a pound of cure at the end. Learning how…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Damages (VIRTUAL)
$1200
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 course will be tried and true methods of non-verbal persuasion, segments of closing for you to work on for your case, and how to tie…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
$1400
THIS COURSE WILL BE CONDUCTED VIRTUALLY. NO Travel to Las Vegas. In #3 Focus Group discover firsthand justice by the people. 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 trial institute way of…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Witness Prep (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1200
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 most fundamentally important things you’ll ever learn as a trial lawyer. You’ll get one-on-one guidance in giving your witnesses the confidence and practice they need…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
$1900
THIS COURSE WILL BE CONDUCTED VIRTUALLY. NO Travel to Las Vegas. 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 covered: – 10 Alternatives to the Passion Question – FG Medical Knowledge –…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Voir Dire (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1400
THIS COURSE WILL BE CONDUCTED VIRTUALLY. NO Travel to Las Vegas. 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 openings, jury instructions, and rules to prepare a jury selection that will lay out…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Openings (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1200
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
$1400
THIS COURSE WILL BE CONDUCTED VIRTUALLY. NO Travel to Las Vegas. 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: $1400
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Opening (VIRTUAL)
$1400
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 tools to build a bullet proof opening statement, that will take 12-minutes or less, and put you on your way to a successful verdict. Undergraduate…
Find out more »May 2020
Graduate: Cross Exam (VIRTUAL)
$1400
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 play, this course teaches the Right Way / Wrong Way, and will Focus every student on the most Relevant and Important aspect of Cross Examination…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Witness Prep (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1200
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 most fundamentally important things you’ll ever learn as a trial lawyer. You’ll get one-on-one guidance in giving your witnesses the confidence and practice they need…
Find out more »Elective: Admitted Liability (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1200
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 Reptile 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 your cases. SCHOLARSHIPS: We offer one scholarship for each course. To apply to receive a scholarship, please click here. Pre-Requisites: Welcome to the Keenan Edge, Course…
Find out more »Graduate: Black Letter Law (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1900
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 all Keenan Trial Methods. With templates, actual examples, and role-playing - plus several trade secrets which cannot be listed publicly. Tuition $1900.00. This is a…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Damages (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1200
THIS COURSE IS FULL. YOU MAY REGISTER FOR THE WAITLIST BUT THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES YOU WILL GET INTO THE COURSE. 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 course will be tried…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Trial (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1200
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 affects the ultimate outcome at trial and how an ounce of prevention in the beginning saves a pound of cure at the end. Learning how…
Find out more »Graduate: Closing Liability (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1900
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 Uber Efficient closing argument that will hit the defense like a Ton Of Bricks. You will learn that you no longer have to wait until…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Witness Prep (VIRTUAL)
$1200
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 most fundamentally important things you’ll ever learn as a trial lawyer. You’ll get one-on-one guidance in giving your witnesses the confidence and practice they need…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Witness Prep (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1400
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 Fault The Client who has Lied Developing Major Truths with the Client Attendees will also receive a Trial Prep Template for their client. Cost: $1400…
Find out more »Zoom Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
$200
We will be hosting a full day online training session on how to conduct Focus Groups properly using Zoom. This is your chance to learn the methods and get your questions answered. This virtual training session runs from 9am-5pm CST. Scholarships are Available. You can register for a scholarship by clicking here.
Find out more »Undergraduate: Mediation (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1200
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 will come to understand the preconditions to mediation that lead to effective and successful presentation of your case. You will understand the dynamic of how…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Mediation (VIRTUAL)
$1400
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 the Blackhats and for the Taliban. In short, you will learn how to design the resolution of your case using the numerous approaches and techniques…
Find out more »June 2020
Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Damages (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1200
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 course will be tried and true methods of non-verbal persuasion, segments of closing for you to work on for your case, and how to tie…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Depositions (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1200
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Openings (VIRTUAL)
$1200
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
Find out more »Elective: Employment (VIRTUAL)
$1200
In this Employment elective course, Keenan Trial Institute faculty will work with you individually within small groups. This college focuses on three of the most difficult but rewarding applications of the latest Keenan techniques to employment cases. You’ll learn to develop and present the bad employer system that takes your employment case from an event case to a systems case. You’ll learn to develop and present the mechanism of injury. You’ll learn to spread the tentacles of danger. You’ll learn…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Opening (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
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 tools to build a bullet proof opening statement, that will take 12-minutes or less, and put you on your way to a successful verdict. Undergraduate…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Focus Groups (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1400
In #3 Focus Group discover firsthand justice by the people. 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 trial institute way of researching your case from Bubba’s POV. You will find that focus…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
$1900
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 covered: – 10 Alternatives to the Passion Question – FG Medical Knowledge – Adversarial FG – FG Demonstrative Evidence – FG Memos – FG…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Voir Dire (VIRTUAL) – COURSE IS FULL
$1400
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 openings, jury instructions, and rules to prepare a jury selection that will lay out your case the right way, arm the jurors, kill the rats,…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
$1400
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: $1400
Find out more »Medical Malpractice Seminar : VIRTUAL
$800
THIS SEMINAR WILL BE CONDUCTING VIRTUALLY. Join us as our speakers guide you through the best practices and methods to gain big wins for your client. REGISTER TODAY
Find out more »July 2020
Undergraduate: Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 will come to understand the preconditions to mediation that lead to effective and successful presentation of your case. You will understand the dynamic of how…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
$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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Undergrad: Openings (VIRTUAL)
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
In #3 Focus Group discover firsthand justice by the people. 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 trial institute way of researching your case from Bubba’s POV. You will find that focus…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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 openings, jury instructions, and rules to prepare a jury selection that will lay out your case the right way, arm the jurors, kill the rats,…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Depositions (VIRTUAL)
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »Graduate: Cross Exam (VIRTUAL)
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 play, this course teaches the Right Way / Wrong Way, and will Focus every student on the most Relevant and Important aspect of Cross Examination…
Find out more »GRAD: Black Letter Law (VIRTUAL)
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 all Keenan Trial Methods. With templates, actual examples, and role-playing - plus several trade secrets which cannot be listed publicly. Tuition $1900.00. This is a…
Find out more »Undergrad: Trial (VIRTUAL)- COURSE IS FULL
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 affects the ultimate outcome at trial and how an ounce of prevention in the beginning saves a pound of cure at the end. Learning how…
Find out more »Undergrad: Damages (VIRTUAL)
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 course will be tried and true methods of non-verbal persuasion, segments of closing for you to work on for your case, and how to tie…
Find out more »August 2020
Undergrad: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 the Blackhats and for the Taliban. In short, you will learn how to design the resolution of your case using the numerous approaches and techniques…
Find out more »Undergrad: Openings (VIRTUAL)
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Opening (VIRTUAL)
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 tools to build a bullet proof opening statement, that will take 12-minutes or less, and put you on your way to a successful verdict. Undergraduate…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Depositions (VIRTUAL)
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
In #3 Focus Group discover firsthand justice by the people. 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 trial institute way of researching your case from Bubba’s POV. You will find that focus…
Find out more »September 2020
Undergraduate: Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 will come to understand the preconditions to mediation that lead to effective and successful presentation of your case. You will understand the dynamic of how…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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 openings, jury instructions, and rules to prepare a jury selection that will lay out your case the right way, arm the jurors, kill the rats,…
Find out more »Undergrad: Damages (VIRTUAL)
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 course will be tried and true methods of non-verbal persuasion, segments of closing for you to work on for your case, and how to tie…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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: $1400
Find out more »Undergrad: Trial (VIRTUAL)
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 affects the ultimate outcome at trial and how an ounce of prevention in the beginning saves a pound of cure at the end. Learning how…
Find out more »Semnar: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) – September 11-12, 2020 (VIRTUAL)
THIS SEMINAR WILL BE CONDUCTED VIRTUALLY.
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Depositions (VIRTUAL)
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »Undergrad: Openings (VIRTUAL)
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
Find out more »GRAD: Black Letter Law (VIRTUAL)
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 all Keenan Trial Methods. With templates, actual examples, and role-playing - plus several trade secrets which cannot be listed publicly. Tuition $1900.00. This is a…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Witness Prep (VIRTUAL)
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 most fundamentally important things you’ll ever learn as a trial lawyer. You’ll get one-on-one guidance in giving your witnesses the confidence and practice they need…
Find out more »Elective: Admitted Liability (VIRTUAL)
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 Reptile 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 your cases. SCHOLARSHIPS: We offer one scholarship for each course. To apply to receive a scholarship, please click here. Pre-Requisites: Welcome to the Keenan Edge, Course…
Find out more »October 2020
Seminar: Tractor Trailer – October 2-3, 2020 (VIRTUAL)
$800
THIS SEMINAR WILL BE CONDUCTED VIRTUALLY.
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Graduate: Closing Liability (VIRTUAL)
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 Uber Efficient closing argument that will hit the defense like a Ton Of Bricks. You will learn that you no longer have to wait until…
Find out more »Undergrad: Trial (VIRTUAL)
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 affects the ultimate outcome at trial and how an ounce of prevention in the beginning saves a pound of cure at the end. Learning how…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Depositions (VIRTUAL)
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Opening (VIRTUAL)
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 tools to build a bullet proof opening statement, that will take 12-minutes or less, and put you on your way to a successful verdict. Undergraduate…
Find out more »November 2020
Undergraduate: Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 will come to understand the preconditions to mediation that lead to effective and successful presentation of your case. You will understand the dynamic of how…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 the Blackhats and for the Taliban. In short, you will learn how to design the resolution of your case using the numerous approaches and techniques…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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: $1400
Find out more »Grad: Advanced Witness Prep (Atlanta, GA)
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 Fault The Client who has Lied Developing Major Truths with the Client Attendees will also receive a Trial Prep Template for their client. Cost: $1400…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
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 covered: – 10 Alternatives to the Passion Question – FG Medical Knowledge – Adversarial FG – FG Demonstrative Evidence – FG Memos – FG…
Find out more »Graduate: Closing Liability (VIRTUAL)
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 Uber Efficient closing argument that will hit the defense like a Ton Of Bricks. You will learn that you no longer have to wait until…
Find out more »Graduate: Cross Exam (VIRTUAL)
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 play, this course teaches the Right Way / Wrong Way, and will Focus every student on the most Relevant and Important aspect of Cross Examination…
Find out more »December 2020
Graduate: Trial Management (VIRTUAL)
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 covered: – 10 Alternatives to the Passion Question – FG Medical Knowledge – Adversarial FG – FG Demonstrative Evidence – FG Memos – FG Tools…
Find out more »January 2021
Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Undergrad: Openings (VIRTUAL)
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own case. Instructors introduce Don Keenan's 7 Rules for Writing Safety Rules. The KTI’s system for improving trial lawyer’s skill forces students to get on their feet and present their…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Depositions (VIRTUAL)
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »February 2021
Undergrad: Damages (VIRTUAL)
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 course will be tried and true methods of non-verbal persuasion, segments of closing for you to work on for your case, and how to tie…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
In #3 Focus Group discover firsthand justice by the people. 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 trial institute way of researching your case from Bubba’s POV. You will find that focus…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
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 covered: – 10 Alternatives to the Passion Question – FG Medical Knowledge – Adversarial FG – FG Demonstrative Evidence – FG Memos – FG…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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 openings, jury instructions, and rules to prepare a jury selection that will lay out your case the right way, arm the jurors, kill the rats,…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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: $1400
Find out more »Undergrad: Damages (VIRTUAL)
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 course will be tried and true methods of non-verbal persuasion, segments of closing for you to work on for your case, and how to tie…
Find out more »Undergrad: Trial (VIRTUAL)
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 affects the ultimate outcome at trial and how an ounce of prevention in the beginning saves a pound of cure at the end. Learning how…
Find out more »March 2021
Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Graduate: Cross Exam (VIRTUAL)
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 play, this course teaches the Right Way / Wrong Way, and will Focus every student on the most Relevant and Important aspect of Cross Examination…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 will come to understand the preconditions to mediation that lead to effective and successful presentation of your case. You will understand the dynamic of how…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 the Blackhats and for the Taliban. In short, you will learn how to design the resolution of your case using the numerous approaches and techniques…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Opening (VIRTUAL)
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 tools to build a bullet proof opening statement, that will take 12-minutes or less, and put you on your way to a successful verdict. Undergraduate…
Find out more »Graduate: Closing Liability (VIRTUAL)
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 Uber Efficient closing argument that will hit the defense like a Ton Of Bricks. You will learn that you no longer have to wait until…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Witness Prep (VIRTUAL)
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 most fundamentally important things you’ll ever learn as a trial lawyer. You’ll get one-on-one guidance in giving your witnesses the confidence and practice they need…
Find out more »April 2021
Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Elective: Admitted Liability (VIRTUAL)
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 Reptile 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 your cases. SCHOLARSHIPS: We offer one scholarship for each course. To apply to receive a scholarship, please click here. Pre-Requisites: Welcome to the Keenan Edge, Course…
Find out more »Undergrad: Openings (VIRTUAL)
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Depositions (VIRTUAL)
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
In #3 Focus Group discover firsthand justice by the people. 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 trial institute way of researching your case from Bubba’s POV. You will find that focus…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
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 covered: – 10 Alternatives to the Passion Question – FG Medical Knowledge – Adversarial FG – FG Demonstrative Evidence – FG Memos – FG…
Find out more »May 2021
Undergraduate: Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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 openings, jury instructions, and rules to prepare a jury selection that will lay out your case the right way, arm the jurors, kill the rats,…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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: $1400
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »GRAD: Black Letter Law (VIRTUAL)
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 all Keenan Trial Methods. With templates, actual examples, and role-playing - plus several trade secrets which cannot be listed publicly. Tuition $1900.00. This is a…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 will come to understand the preconditions to mediation that lead to effective and successful presentation of your case. You will understand the dynamic of how…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 the Blackhats and for the Taliban. In short, you will learn how to design the resolution of your case using the numerous approaches and techniques…
Find out more »Tractor Trailer Seminar (VIRTUAL)
Register for your spot now and learn with other Edge attorneys about subjects including Underwriting, Hit List PowerPoints, Broker Liability, Driver Depositions, & much more. Speakers will include Keenan Trial Institute Faculty and Experts. Tuition: $800
Find out more »Undergrad: Trial (VIRTUAL)
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 affects the ultimate outcome at trial and how an ounce of prevention in the beginning saves a pound of cure at the end. Learning how…
Find out more »Undergrad: Damages (VIRTUAL)
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 course will be tried and true methods of non-verbal persuasion, segments of closing for you to work on for your case, and how to tie…
Find out more »June 2021
Graduate: Cross Exam (VIRTUAL)
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 play, this course teaches the Right Way / Wrong Way, and will Focus every student on the most Relevant and Important aspect of Cross Examination…
Find out more »Graduate: Closing Liability (VIRTUAL)
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 Uber Efficient closing argument that will hit the defense like a Ton Of Bricks. You will learn that you no longer have to wait until…
Find out more »Undergrad: Openings (VIRTUAL)
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Opening (VIRTUAL)
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 tools to build a bullet proof opening statement, that will take 12-minutes or less, and put you on your way to a successful verdict. Undergraduate…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Depositions (VIRTUAL)
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »July 2021
Undergraduate: Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
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 trial institute way of researching your case from Bubba’s POV. You will find that focus Groups are the best too in your litigation skills toolbox…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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 openings, jury instructions, and rules to prepare a jury selection that will lay out your case the right way, arm the jurors, kill the rats,…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Witness Prep (VIRTUAL)
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 most fundamentally important things you’ll ever learn as a trial lawyer. You’ll get one-on-one guidance in giving your witnesses the confidence and practice they need…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 will come to understand the preconditions to mediation that lead to effective and successful presentation of your case. You will understand the dynamic of how…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Mediation (VIRTUAL)
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 the Blackhats and for the Taliban. In short, you will learn how to design the resolution of your case using the numerous approaches and techniques…
Find out more »GRAD: Black Letter Law (VIRTUAL)
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 all Keenan Trial Methods. With templates, actual examples, and role-playing - plus several trade secrets which cannot be listed publicly. Tuition $1900.00. This is a…
Find out more »August 2021
Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Elective: Admitted Liability (VIRTUAL)
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 Reptile 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 your cases. SCHOLARSHIPS: We offer one scholarship for each course. To apply to receive a scholarship, please click here. Pre-Requisites: Welcome to the Keenan Edge, Course…
Find out more »Undergrad: Openings (VIRTUAL)
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
Find out more »Graduate: Closing Liability (VIRTUAL)
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 Uber Efficient closing argument that will hit the defense like a Ton Of Bricks. You will learn that you no longer have to wait until…
Find out more »Undergrad: Trial (VIRTUAL)
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 affects the ultimate outcome at trial and how an ounce of prevention in the beginning saves a pound of cure at the end. Learning how…
Find out more »Undergrad: Damages (VIRTUAL)
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 course will be tried and true methods of non-verbal persuasion, segments of closing for you to work on for your case, and how to tie…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
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 covered: – 10 Alternatives to the Passion Question – FG Medical Knowledge – Adversarial FG – FG Demonstrative Evidence – FG Memos – FG…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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: $1400
Find out more »Advanced Direct Exam (Virtual)
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 the three-day Direct Exam College students will get to see and experience the transformation of their direct exam skills. Students will first learn the tools…
Find out more »September 2021
Undergraduate: Depositions (VIRTUAL)
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 for trial. You’ll learn many key deposition techniques — and role play with actual deponents as you’re individually coached with such important matters as guiding…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Witness Prep (VIRTUAL)
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 most fundamentally important things you’ll ever learn as a trial lawyer. You’ll get one-on-one guidance in giving your witnesses the confidence and practice they need…
Find out more »GRAD: Advanced Opening (VIRTUAL)
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 tools to build a bullet proof opening statement, that will take 12-minutes or less, and put you on your way to a successful verdict. Undergraduate…
Find out more »Graduate: Cross Exam (VIRTUAL)
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 play, this course teaches the Right Way / Wrong Way, and will Focus every student on the most Relevant and Important aspect of Cross Examination…
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Undergraduate: Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
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 trial institute way of researching your case from Bubba’s POV. You will find that focus Groups are the best too in your litigation skills toolbox…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Focus Groups (VIRTUAL)
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 covered: – 10 Alternatives to the Passion Question – FG Medical Knowledge – Adversarial FG – FG Demonstrative Evidence – FG Memos – FG…
Find out more »Undergraduate: Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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 openings, jury instructions, and rules to prepare a jury selection that will lay out your case the right way, arm the jurors, kill the rats,…
Find out more »Graduate: Advanced Voir Dire (VIRTUAL)
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: $1400
Find out more »Undergraduate: Rules & Case Selection (VIRTUAL)
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 simple truth that case selection criteria are the most important focus of their case. Students work in small groups to develop Rules for their own…
Find out more »Undergrad: Openings (VIRTUAL)
In the Opening course, Course #2, you will work in small-group sessions with one-on-one faculty guidance that will help shape, create and sharpen, and sharpen again, your opening statement using the trial tested methods developed by Don Keenan and other KTI faculty members. In a safe, supportive, but challenging environment of a small group, you will learn how to present your opening, one section at a time. Then guided by direct feedback you will be able to continue the process…
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