• Train the Trainers “PLI”
• Defender Train the Trainer
• NLANN’S Beyond Meaningful Access
• “Small Towns, Big Issues” Rural-Focused Pre-Conference

Civil Train the Trainers

Conference Overview

This intensive, two-day program will show you why alternatives to lengthy lectures are essential for adult learners. You will see demonstrations of what works in legal training from a trainer who has designed hundreds of programs for lawyers. From demonstrations, you will move to practice and design. You will leave this program with a head start on a training plan for a new course in your organization or region.

Train the Trainers is delivered by David Cruickshank of Firm Leader, a consulting and training firm. He is a former Director of Professional Development at major Canadian and US law firms. He has trained lawyers and judges internationally and works regularly with the Practising Law Institute (PLI) on pro bono projects in the legal services community. This course regularly receives top evaluations from our participants.

This training seminar is provided by NLADA with the generous sponsorship of the Practising Law Institute (New York, San Francisco). The Practising Law Institute (PLI) is contributing to internal and external professional development for legal aid organizations through this and other initiatives with NLADA.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the learning needs and characteristics of your audience;
• Write performance-oriented learning objectives;
• Explain five different instructional methods, describe their application to legal services training, and use two of them comfortably;
• Plan presentation skills which incorporate variations to a lecture OR practice small group facilitation skills;
• Describe the components of good case studies in attorney training;
• Review the use of good audio-visual aids
• Design a workshop lesson plan for a training session in your organization in accordance with criteria for effective instructional design;
• Present the design of a lesson plan in a stimulating fashion.

Who Should Attend?

• Experienced trainers who are looking to sharpen and expand their understanding of adult training methods and move beyond lecture-based models.
• New training directors or others interested in training in the public defense community.
• Representatives of regional training consortiums who have the capacity to support and export these skills on a regional level.
• State-based trainers who have the capacity to support and export these skills on a state level.
• People who train at the national level and who desire to refresh their training skills and learn from other trainers.

Tuesday, November 09, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday November 10, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Join the Defender Trainers Section for the Defender Train the Trainer Preconference — a two-day learning event that will model the use of adult learning principles and fully engage participants in developing and implementing more effective training programs and presentations. Using a learn by doing methodology, the Defender Train the Trainer Preconference provides an interactive experience for public defender trainers, supervisors, administrative staff and others, anyone whose job responsibilities include the development or implementation of training. Participants will attend plenary sessions including:

• The Role of the Trainer, Adult Learning Theory and Short Attention Span;
• Understanding and Drafting Learning Objectives for Your Training Presentation;
• PowerPoint Overview: Using PowerPoint to Enhance Training Objectives; and
• Using Training Programs to Define a Client-Centered, Quality Representation Public Defender Office Culture

Following each plenary session, attendees will participate in facilitated, interactive small group sessions that will provide them with a “hands-on” opportunity to apply the plenary subject matter to a training event/session they are currently planning and receive feedback from faculty and fellow participants.

From directors of organization-wide training programs to supervisors developing a one-time training for staff attorneys or administrative staff, the design and development of the training program is critical to ensuring that the program participants enhance their knowledge, skills and abilities. This pre-conference will provide the participant with valuable information and practical steps for designing a training program from beginning to end.

Attendees are required to bring a laptop computer with PowerPoint program and a proposal for a training event of any size as well as presentation/session ideas. By the end of this pre-conference, participants will be well on their way to producing a presentation that will impress their colleagues and engage their learners and developing a highly effective training event that will stand out.

The National Language Access Advocates Network (N-LAAN) is hosting its fourth pre-conference “Beyond Meaningful Access” on Wednesday November 10, 2010. In this one-day conference, participants will learn about best practices for serving limited English proficient (LEP) clients and effective models and approaches to language access advocacy.

The N-LAAN pre-conference provides a unique opportunity for language access advocates to: share best practices, resources and models of serving LEP clients and language access advocacy; coordinate advocacy strategies; identify priority areas and opportunities; identify resources that can support the growing work nationally and benefit from inperson networking.

Pre-conference session topics will benefit program advocates, language access coordinators, senior and managing attorneys, litigation directors, executive directors and others interested in language access advocacy and promoting language access in legal services. The content of these sessions will not duplicate N-LAAN’s language access sessions held during the NLADA Annual Conference.

Enrollment in the N-LAAN pre-conference will be limited so please register early. The registration fee of $95 will include a continental breakfast and lunch.

“Small Towns, Big Issues” Rural Focused Pre-Conference

Join your colleagues from programs serving rural clients and communities at the “Small Towns, Big Issues” Pre- Conference. Delivering on the Dream of Justice in rural communities presents unique challenges. This will be an opportunity to learn from what other programs have done and to brainstorm new ideas. Discussions will cover: how to build and sustain effective affirmative litigation capacity in rural programs by partnering with urban programs or private law firms, statewide pro bono resources, law schools, national or regional public interest organizations, statewide support centers; how to build rural program culture, expertise and capacity so that systemic litigation is regularly planned for and done as part of the rural program’s strategic plan and individual advocate work plans; and support and supervision of legal work in remote offices, or on behalf of clients in remote areas.

The registration fee of $95 will include a continental breakfast and materials.