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TLU Trial Skills Bootcamp

jun 25 - 28, 2025 /

Las Vegas, NV
Dan Ambrose
Giorgio Panagos

jun 25 - 28, 2025

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About the bootcamp

TLU Trial Skills Bootcamp is a three-day intensive workshop in Las Vegas, NV, designed to exponentially improve participants' presentation, cross-examination, and voir dire skills. Working in four-person groups with video replay for feedback, participants will break down complex skills into fundamentals, or "micro skills," practicing them to the point of unconscious competence. The micro skills of persuasion include appropriate eye contact, voice control, hand/body movement, emotional control, glance control, creating space, word selection, and listening.

Student Prerequisites

If you have eight participants in your location, we can bring the bootcamp to you. Please contact Dan for more information and scheduling at dan@triallawyersuniversity.com.

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Robert Buzzard

The Buzzard Law Firm

The TLU bootcamps are great. Solid tools to help you see your blind spots in how you are coming across to the jury. You are forced to see yourself as a presenter, and given tools to present more effectively to the jury. The bootcamps have helped me become a better storyteller by helping me build habits so my countenance and postures don't come across as forced, but as natural extensions of my client's story.

What skills will you acquire from Dan Ambrose

Dan Ambrose and Giorgio Panagos will transform the way you present your case by teaching you the art of connection. From the moment you begin speaking, you will learn how to command attention and build trust with jurors, making them feel engaged rather than talked at. Through strategic and intentional eye contact, vocal control, and purposeful movement, you will develop a presence and connection that draws jurors in and keeps them invested. Every gesture, pause, and word will work in harmony to reinforce your message, shaping emotions and guiding perceptions. With coaching, you will strip away distractions, present in the courtroom with confidence and precision, and rewrite your future.

Hone and Refine the Micro Skills of Connection

  1. Eye contact
  2. Cadence: pacing/pausing
  3. Emotional state control
  4. Hand gesticulation
  5. Glance control
  6. Creating space
  7. Reflective Listening
  8. Word choice
  9. Economy of words
  10. Congruence
Agenda
Day 1: Presentation with Visuals

Focus

Practicing presentation techniques with visuals, including foam core boards, PowerPoints, flip charts, and physical models. Emphasis on dialogue and creating space.

Time

Session

8:30a - 12:30p

session (2 breaks, 15 minutes each)

2:30p - 1:30p

lunch

1:30pm - 6:30pm

session (3 breaks, 15 minutes each)

Day 2: Mastering Voir Dire

Focus

Building initial connection with the jury, pacing, pausing, word choice, empowering the jury, and identifying potential bias.

Time

Session

8:30a - 12:30p

session (2 breaks, 15 minutes each)

2:30p - 1:30p

lunch

1:30pm - 6:30pm

session (3 breaks, 15 minutes each)

Day 3: Cross-Examination Techniques

Focus

Using the flip chart, present tense, eliminating tag lines (e.g., "correct," "true"), removing filler words ("and," "ok," "ah"), creating space, and applying Dodd’s Three Rules for cross-examination.

Time

Session

8:30a - 12:30p

session (2 breaks, 15 minutes each)

2:30p - 1:30p

lunch

1:30pm - 6:30pm

session (3 breaks, 15 minutes each)

Bootcamp Preparation

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 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.

Instructor Giorgio Panagos

Giorgio Panagos

Ulysses Law

I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area to an Armenian mother and Greek father. I attended Berkeley High School, University of California, Riverside and Golden Gate University, School of Law. While in law school, I worked at my father’s chocolate shop in Palo Alto giving tasting tours and teaching customers about the history and production of the world’s finest cacao. After passing the CA bar in 2019, I moved to Los Angeles to practice personal injury law. Shortly after founding my own firm in 2021, I cofounded Lawzilla.co, a case referral marketplace where attorneys can find cases to grow their practices and refer cases they would otherwise drop. In addition to running my startup, I work closely with Trial Lawyers University, coaching attorneys on trial presentation skills. I speak fluent Greek and enjoy traveling, reading, spending time with family and playing piano.