Keenan Trial Institute Graduate Courses

Now that you have completed 7 Undergraduate courses, you can register for our Graduate courses. These courses take you to the next advanced level. Our undergraduate courses are a pre-requisite as they fully prepare you for our graduate courses.

Graduate courses allow you to be expand upon concepts, theories, and applications in a way you haven’t imagined!

Graduate Course Pre-Requisites: Completion of  7 Undergraduate courses, unless otherwise stated.

PLEASE NOTE: All courses run from 9am until 5pm each day the course is scheduled.

Your Payment is Due at the Time of Graduate Course Registration.

GRADUATE – 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

Tuition $1400.00. 

GRADUATE – 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.

Tuition $1400.00. 

To attend this ADV Course you do not have to be a Graduate, You do have to have the Undergraduate Mediation Completed first.

GRADUATE – 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.

Tuition $1400.00. 

GRADUATE – 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.

Tuition $1900.00.

This is a three day course. 

GRADUATE – 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.

Tuition $1900.00. 

This is a three day course. 

GRADUATE – 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.

Tuition $1400.00. 

To attend this ADV Course you do not have to be a Graduate, You do have to have the Undergraduate Witness Prep Completed first.

GRADUATE – Trial Management

Tuition $1400.00. 

GRADUATE – Advanced Focus Groups

GRADUATE – Advanced Depositions