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All Bootcamps

Premises Liability Cases

sep 30 - oct 4, 2025 / 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM

Las Vegas, NV
Kurt Zaner
Dan Ambrose

sep 30 - oct 4, 2025
8:00 AM - 6:30 PM

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About the bootcamp

Winning a premises liability case isn’t just about proving someone got hurt on someone else’s property. It’s about building a strategic, evidence-driven case that exposes responsibility and motivates jurors to act. In this Bootcamp, you’ll work directly with Kurt Zaner to develop every stage of your case: from early investigation, expert strategy, and deposition sequencing to jury selection, cross-examination, and closing. Alongside that, Dan Ambrose will coach you in the trial presentation skills that bring your case to life—teaching you how to control your delivery, movement, and timing so your arguments are heard, felt, and believed. Together, they’ll help you align trial strategy with courtroom presence to maximize the impact of your case.

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Doug Zanes

I believe that participating in the TLU bootcamps has been the single most beneficial investment that I have made in myself as a trial lawyer. It provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity to work on everything from jury connection to storytelling within the courtroom and the confines of a case. I don't believe that the skills taught in this program are available anywhere else, and any lawyer who is serious about trial work MUST make this investment in yourself."

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Przemek Lubecki

"This training will save you years of struggle and put you light years ahead of the defense. If you're open-minded about the role voir dire can play at trial and committed to doing the work it takes to get comfortable in the discomfort of training for trial, you may come out a different person and without question will leave a much better trial lawyer.”

What Strategies You Will Gain from Kurt Zaner:

Premises liability cases come in many forms, from unsafe structures and defective conditions to negligent security and failure to warn. Each demands precision and planning. Kurt will guide you step by step through building and trying these cases, helping you refine your approach and maximize results. You’ll learn:

  • Case selection and early action strategy – Identify which cases have strong trial potential and act fast to secure the site, preserve evidence, and take control of the early narrative.
  • Strategic expert retention – Learn what types of experts you’ll need—architects, engineers, human factors experts, code compliance professionals—and when and where to find the right ones.
  • Setting up your claims and pleadings – Master how to plead your case under premises liability law versus general negligence and strategically designate parties to match your theory of the case.
  • Document discovery that drives the story – Build discovery plans that surface the documents that matter. Learn how to draft effective requests, deal with ESI, and avoid dead ends in written discovery.
  • Deposition planning and execution – Develop a winning sequence and strategy for 30(b)(6) depositions, PMKs, fact witnesses, and your own client. Know when to press, when to listen, and how to build key admissions that support your themes.
  • Pre-trial preparation for maximum impact – Use focus groups, demonstratives, MILs, and case framing to tighten your presentation and test the emotional force of your arguments.
  • Voir dire and opening that frames the fight – Learn the questions that reveal juror bias in premises cases and how to prime jurors to care about safety, responsibility, and accountability.
  • Controlling cross and closing – Create courtroom moments that matter by integrating depo clips, challenging defense narratives, and reserving your most powerful moves for rebuttal.

What Skills You Will Acquire from Dan Ambrose:

Even a well-built premises liability case can fall flat if the jury doesn’t connect with the lawyer delivering it. That’s where Dan comes in. He'll help you perfect your delivery of the case to keep your jurors locked in and emotionally aligned. You’ll learn:

  • How to command the room from the start – Step up with presence, eliminate distraction, and build trust with jurors through intentional eye contact and posture.
  • Pacing, pausing, and vocal emphasis – Adjust your delivery to draw attention to key themes. Whether you’re introducing a faulty building code violation, exposing corporate neglect, or walking the jury through your client’s lived experience.
  • Gesture and movement that reinforce meaning – Use your body and voice in sync to deepen juror retention and underline critical points of liability and damages.
  • Creating flow and focus in the courtroom – Maintain juror attention using visual and spatial techniques that support the flow of your case and minimize confusion, so you can take them where you want to.
  • Projecting emotional credibility – Align your emotional tone with the substance of your argument so jurors instinctively trust and follow you, especially in moments where human life and safety are at stake.

Bootcamp preparation details

Students must bring a case to work on, complete prep assignments, and attend weekly Zoom meetings. You will record and review your presentations multiple times. This preparation ensures that you arrive ready to make the most of the bootcamp.

Your Instructors

Instructor Kurt Zaner

Kurt Zaner

Zaner Law

Its hard to write a paragraph that defines who you are.

Who am I? Do we define ourselves? Or do others define us? Or do our actions define us? Identity is challenging. Am I defined by my journey as a Trial Lawyer who wages epic battles with evil corporations and insurance companies? Am I defined by my 7 and 8 figure verdicts? Am I defined by the confidential settlements I can't talk about? Or am I defined by the $50,000 settlements that change my client's lives? Money is not success. But money is success. Am I defined by my childhood? Growing up in South Florida, always wanting to be an actor, a trial lawyer, or a president of something? Does serving as high school student body president make a doosh? I failed (quit) my movie star pursuit in Hollywood, does that boost my cred or detract from it? Am I defined by family?

My three young boys (1,4,6) mean more to me than any case and I would quit practicing law tomorrow if it was somehow necessary to help my kids. There isn't much I wouldn't do for them. I wish I had more hours in the day to spend with them. And yet, when I look at them, I think of my toxic tort client who was diagnosed with Leukemia at 18, has lost one leg and likely another because of a company's toxic emissions, and I imagine if this happened to one of my children. Or am I defined by my pursuit of Karate and mastery of the bow and spear so that one day I may fight like the Viper of Dorne? I want to be the Champion of those who cannot fight for themselves. Who is John Galt?

Instructor Dan Ambrose

Dan Ambrose

Trial Lawyers University

I grew up in Birmingham, MI. I am the youngest of eight children and attended an all-boys catholic school my whole life until I went to college at the University of Michigan. I went to night school at Detroit College of Law. My dad, my uncle, two of my brothers, and sister were lawyers. My first job was cutting lawns at age 10. I started working for my brother as a house painter at age 12. When I was 16 I started my own painting business and continued throughout high school, college, and law school, and a few years after until I was 32. I practiced criminal defense for eighteen years in Michigan until ten years ago when my roommate from the Trial Lawyers College, Nick Rowley, encouraged me to move to LA to become a PI lawyer. The California Bar took me four tries. I moved to Las Vegas this past March. I have recently taken up pickle ball, skiing and golf. I also think I'm competitive at connect four, backgammon, chess, and ping pong.