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Deposition Course Announcement

28 Thursday Sep 2017

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Colleagues – I would like to invite you to the first in a series of informal trainings sponsored by the Doyle Inn focusing on basic practical skills in civil litigation.   We are applying for 2 CLE’s for each of our sessions.  There is no charge for attendees.

The first session will be held from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on October 18, 2017 at the downtown office of Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP, Republic Plaza, 370 17th Street, 45th Floor, Denver, CO 80203.  It is  titled Taking and Defending Depositions – What You Need to Know.  This session will offer practical advice and suggested models for taking and defending depositions.

Materials will be distributed ahead of time so participants will have examples for future use.  I hope this will be an interactive process with participants feeling free to ask questions and contribute experiences.  We also invite experienced practitioners to share experiences as well as sample pleadings and outlines.

Please let me know if any of your Inn members, young lawyers or law clerks may be interested in attending.  Also please have them RSVP to randy.bramer@ogc.usda.gov. I hope these talks will help further the Inns’ purpose of educating and mentoring young lawyers.

The remainder of the 2017-2018 sessions are set forth below.

Practical Skills Schedule

Negotiation, Settlement and Alternative Forums for Resolution: What You Never Learned in Law School, November 15, 2017. The session will help young attorneys learn more about early evaluation of a case and examine ways to resolve cases early in litigation and provide an overview of the various forums for resolution of cases.

So You Are Going to Be Witness –Now What? December 20, 2017.  This session will focus on the successful preparation of witnesses to testify at deposition and trial in civil cases.

Direct Examination – How Do You Do It?  January 30, 2018. This session will focus on the conducting direct examination of witnesses at deposition and trial in civil cases.

Cross Examination – What You Need to Know.  February 21, 2108. The will provide young lawyers with practical advice on cross examining a witness at trial.

How to Navigate Private Practice-What You Need to Know- A Panel Discussion. March 20, 2018. This session will focus on what lawyers need to know before entering into private practice.

Legal Writing –Process and Product. April 18, 2017.  This session will focus on effective legal writing and improving persuasion skills through writing.

A View from the Bench:  Practical Advice for Young Lawyers, May 16, 2017.  A panel of judges from state and federal courts will offer their perspective on what young lawyers need to know.

How to Take and Defend a Deposition: What You Need to Know (Doyle Inn Course Announcement)

03 Monday Oct 2016

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Following is an invitation from the Doyle Inn of Court:

Colleagues, I would like to invite you to the second in a series of informal trainings sponsored by the Doyle Inn of Court focusing on basic practical skills in civil litigation.   We are applying for 2 CLE’s for each of our sessions.  There is no charge for attendees.

This session is titled How to Take and Defend a Deposition: What You Need to Know.   This session will offer practical advice and suggested models for taking and defending depositions.

Our instructor will be Randy Bramer.  Mr. Bramer is a Senior Counsel with the United States Department of Agriculture Office of the General Counsel for the Rocky Mountain Region. He previously served as a Special Counsel for the Department of Justice as well as spending several years as a trial attorney with Civil Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

This session will be held from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at the downtown office of Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP, Republic Plaza, 370 17th Street, 45th Floor, Denver, CO 80203. Materials will be distributed ahead of time so participants will have examples for future use.  I hope this will be an interactive process with participants feeling free to ask questions and contribute experiences.  We also invite experienced practitioners to share experiences as well as sample pleadings and outlines.

Please let me know if any of your Inn members, young lawyers or law clerks may be interested in attending.  Please have them RSVP to randy.bramer@ogc.usda.gov. I hope these talks will help further the Inn’s purpose of educating and mentoring young lawyers.

Randy Bramer (303-275-5537)

 

 

 

Cross Examination – What You Need to Know

03 Wednesday Feb 2016

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The Doyle Inn would like to invite you to a training focusing on the successful cross examination of witnesses at trial in civil cases. It is entitled “Cross Examination – What You Need to Know”.  This session is part of the basic practical skills in civil litigation sponsored by the Doyle Inn.   We are applying for 2 CLE’s for each of our sessions.  There is no charge for attendees.

The purpose of this session is to provide young lawyers with practical advice on cross examining a witness at trial.  It will be held from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at the downtown office of Wheeler, Trigg, O’Donnell at 370 Seventeenth Street, Suite 4500 Denver, Colorado 80202-5647.  Our instructors will include Kevin Traskos, Civil Chief, Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado and Craig May from Wheeler, Trigg and O’Donnell.

Materials will be distributed ahead of time so participants will have examples for future use.  We hope this will be an interactive process with participants feeling free to ask questions and contribute experiences.  We also invite experienced practitioners to share experiences as well as sample pleadings and outlines.

Please RSVP to randy.bramer@ogc.usda.gov. We hope these talks will help further the Inns’ purpose of educating and mentoring young lawyers.

Check Out these Fantastic Training Opportunities Sponsored by the Doyle Inn of Court

29 Tuesday Sep 2015

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Editor’s Note – We received the following invitation from Doyle Inn of Court Executive Committee Member Randy Bramer.

Colleagues –

I would like to invite you to the first in a series of informal trainings sponsored by the Doyle Inn.  We are applying for 2 CLEs for each session.  There is no charge for attendees.

Our first session will be entitled Writing for the Reader.  Our presenter will be Bob Russel, Appellate Chief of the United States Attorney’s Office.  The session will be held from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on Wednesday October 21, 2015 at the downtown office of Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP, Republic Plaza, 370 17th Street, 45th Floor, Denver, CO 80203.

Materials will be distributed ahead of time so participants will have examples for future use.  I hope this will be an interactive process with participants feeling free to ask questions and contribute experiences. 

Please let me know if any of your Inn members, young lawyers or law clerks may be interested in attending.  Also please have them RSVP to randy.bramer@ogc.usda.gov. I hope these talks will help further the Inns’ purpose of educating and mentoring young lawyers.

 

CLE Programs on Civil Litigation and Trial Skills for Students and Young Lawyers

18 Monday Aug 2014

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Members, we received the following message from Randy Bramer, a member of the Doyle Inn of Court, inviting our own members to participate in this series of FREE CLE programs for students and young lawyers. Please see Mr. Bramer’s message below for more details:

Colleagues – I would like to invite you to a series of informal trainings focusing on practical skills in civil litigation for students, law clerks and young lawyers. We are applying for 2 CLE’s for each of the sessions. There is no charge for attendees. These sessions are sponsored by the Doyle Inn of Court.

The schedule for this year includes the following sessions:

October 15, 2014 – Practical Suggestions for Taking and Defending Depositions

November 19, 2014 – Negotiation and Settlement – The Things You Have to Know

January 29, 2015 – Direct Examination

February 25, 2015 – Cross Examination

April 15, 2015 – How to Succeed in Private Practice

May 20, 2015 – Appellate Practice

The first session on taking and defending depositions will be held on October 15, at 4:00 PM at the office of Holland & Hart in downtown Denver. The session will last approximately two hours. Materials will be distributed ahead of time so participants will have examples for future use.

I hope this will be an interactive process with participants feeling free to ask questions and contribute experiences. We also invite experienced practitioners to share experiences as well as sample pleadings and outlines.

The sessions will be held at the downtown Denver office of Holland & Hart at 555 17th Street, Suite 3200 (32nd floor). There’s a reception desk on the 32nd floor where people should let someone know they are attending the session, and they will be directed to the right area.

Please let me know if any of your Inn members, young lawyers or law clerks may be interested in attending. Also please have them RSVP to randy.bramer@ogc.usda.gov. I hope these talks will help further the Inns’ purpose of educating and mentoring young lawyers.

Randy Bramer
Senior Counsel
USDA Office of the General Counsel
Rocky Mountain Region
740 Simms Street, Suite 309
Golden, CO 80401

Free Upcoming CLE Event on International Tribunals

17 Monday Mar 2014

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Members, for those of you who attended David Akerson’s program on the International Tribunals, see the message below from David to Judge Gerdes regarding an upcoming FREE CLE program on the topic, along with the graphic below describing the program:

Dear I addressed the Inn of Court a while back on the International Tribunals.  I wanted to let you know about an upcoming event that will be discussing similar issues.   On April 2nd at 4:30 at Anderson Academic Commons (main DU library), our speaker is going to be Fergal Gaynor, the victims’ representative at the Int’l Criminal Court in the case against sitting president of Kenya.  In an innovation at the international tribunals, he is appointed to represent the 20,000 victims and appears as a party independent of the prosecutor and defense attorney in the proceedings.  He will be talking about this new kind of trial counsel, and the differences in the representation and participation of victims at the Rwanda Tribunal versus this new model at the ICC.

Upcoming presentation by Fergal Gaynor

Upcoming presentation by Fergal Gaynor

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