Keenan Trial Institute Graduate Courses
Graduate courses allow you to be expand upon concepts, theories, and applications in a way you haven’t imagined! These courses delve deeper into the methods taught in our Undergraduate courses.
Cancellation/Refund policy: You can transfer your course payment to a new course date one time. You must notify us of this request two weeks before the course date. If you cannot attend the new course date selected, you forfeit the registration payment.
The Keenan Trial Institute was created to better prepare trial lawyers. The EDGE teaches how to streamline discovery, apply Black Letter Law, simplify and try a case to a jury efficiently. Neither the College or the EDGE was designed for CLE credits; we do offer CLE credits when we can, but that is not the goal of our program or system. Therefore, if you practice in a state that requires CLE credits, you must apply on your own to obtain your state’s credits. We do not register with individual states as a CLE provider
Please check the course details for Pre-requisites. Not all Graduate level courses require you to have Graduate status.
Your Payment is Due at the Time of Registration. If your payment is not made, your registration will not be processed.
There are no Faculty, RA, or Associate Discounts for Graduate Level courses.
Class Calendar Undergraduate coursesGRADUATE – Advanced Voir Dire
You’ve learned what to ask in the undergraduate Voir Dire class. Now learn the hows and whys behind the templates. Using the techniques learned in The Keenan Trial Institute’s Advanced Voir Dire class, you will KNOW who to strike from your panel and will be armed to make those strikes.
Cases ARE won and lost in voir dire. Learn how to start your trial out on the right foot
You must be a Graduate having completed 7 undergraduate courses to attend this course.
Tuition $1500.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Advanced Mediation
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 taught in the Advanced Mediation Course. Get ready for some serious fun and excitement.
You must complete the Undergraduate Mediation course to attend this course. You do not have to have Graduate status.
Tuition $1500.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Cross Exam
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 – Bubba’s POV.
The Keenan Trial Institute’s promise is that through this course, students will learn how to give Bubba what he wants and needs out of every cross examination, and will be able to do so in a natural seamless manner. Bottom line, this course will enable all of us to effectively cross examine every witness, leaving the witness No Where To Hide.
You must be a Graduate having completed 7 undergraduate courses to attend this course.
Tuition $1500.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Closing Liability
Nearly every Trial Lawyer’s favorite part of the trial is closing argument. At the Keenan Trial Institute’s Closings 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 the night before closing to begin working on your argument, because it will flow directly from Don Keenan’s System.
We will review the student’s openings, order of proof, and jury instructions to prepare a closing that will lay out your case in the Right Way and arm the jurors with what they need to render the Verdict your clients Deserve so they will finally get Closure.
The Most Important Thing is you will leave with a closing argument that you can reproduce for all your cases going forward.
You must be a Graduate having completed 7 undergraduate courses to attend this course.
This is a three day course.
Tuition $2000.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Black Letter Law
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.
You must be a Graduate having completed 7 undergraduate courses to attend this course.
This is a three day course.
Tuition $2000.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Advanced Witness Prep
Enrollment is not complete until payment is received. All tuition payments for courses are due within 72 hours of signing up for course or sign up will be cancelled.
You must complete the Undergraduate Witness Prep undergraduate course to attend this advanced course. You do not have to have Graduate status.
Tuition $1500.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Trial Management
You must have Graduate status to attend this course.
Trial Management is a system. Trial Management requires organization, ability to manage risk and make sacrifices. Trial Management is time commitment with a focus of passions for the law and your client.
This course follows a real case that David Hoey and Papa Don tried in Boston. You will learn the nuts and bolts of how and when to perform focus groups, what to have on your desk at trial, how to compose yourself during testimony, and h ow to try the case as a Team in an organized, efficient system!
Tuition $1500.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Closings – Damages
Details Coming Soon.
You must complete Grad: Closing Liability course to attend this course.
Tuition $2000.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Advanced Focus Groups
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 & Techniques such as
– Quarantining Unruly Jurors
– Avoiding Common FG Failures
– FG Planning & Purpose
– Three Repeats and then what . . .
– Proper use of Open Ended vs Closed End Questions
– Effective Use Flip Charts
– Exploring Juror Attitudes and much much more
You do not have to have Graduate status to attend this cours. You must complete the Undergraduate Focus Group and Voir Dire before you can attend.
This a three day course.
TUITION $2000
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GRADUATE – Advanced Depositions
The 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 not have to have Graduate status to attend this course. You must complete the Undergraduate Rules, Focus Group and Depositions courses before you can attend.
TUITION $1500
GRADUATE – Direct Exam
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 of direct exam including creation of both the Client Profile and Direct Exam Checklist.
Role playing exercises are woven throughout the college and will include the building of a direct exam through the Client Profile and the right way / wrong way to do a direct exam.
Finally, students will have the opportunity to build and perfect the direct exam for their own cases and role play the direct exam of their client the right way.
Tuition $1500.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Seeing is Believing
For over 40 years Mr. Keenan has been an innovative leader in the Courtroom. One of the reason is because he understands Non-Verbal Persuasion (NVP) better than anyone else!
IMAGINE looking behind the curtain to SEE what Mr. Keenan has created and used over the decades to WIN cases and WIN BIG for his clients who deserve justice!
Advocates are at their best when their mouths are closed and the NVPs allow the jury to connect the dots for themselves. This is the Ultimate persuasive power.
The Course will cover why NVP is so powerful.
There is a review of the Edge Tools to remind students about the fundamentals of an Edge Case. This is an incredible tour of 18 different types of NVP Tools that Mr. Keenan has given us all. Statistics, Safety Rules, Checklist, Concentric Circles, RW/WW – this College has it all and so much more.
Tuition $2000.00.
Register NowGRADUATE – Hit List
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 not have to have Graduate status to attend this course.
You must complete the Undergraduate Rules, Focus Group and Depositions courses before you can attend.
Tuition $2000.00.
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