Master practical strategies for stronger courtroom performance.
Build Your Network:
Connect with trial lawyers and legal professionals nationwide.
Expand Criminal Defense Knowledge:
Explore the issues shaping modern criminal trials.
Take Your Criminal Defense Practice to the Next Level
The Trial Lawyers Summit delivers practical education built around the skills and issues that matter in criminal practice. From jury selection, storytelling, evidence, and witness examination to pretrial publicity, juror perception, and complex criminal cases, gain strategies you can take directly from the Summit into the courtroom.
Exclusive Criminal Defense Rate: $595
Register for $595 and save $700 off the standard registration rate and $500 off the typical member rate. This exclusive rate provides access to the full Trial Lawyers Summit experience and cannot be combined with an additional member discount.
The Summit expands its criminal defense focus with two full days of dedicated programming in 2027. Explore practical strategies on jury selection, pretrial publicity, juror bias, wrongful convictions, evidence, and high-profile criminal cases.
Earn 24+ CLE credits while gaining courtroom-ready insights you can put to work immediately. Past programs have featured Larry Kamer, Mark Geragos, Mark O'Mara, Gilbert King, and Leo Schofield.
Through TRIAL GOLD, accomplished trial attorneys also share advanced techniques in persuasion, storytelling, witness examination, and courtroom presentation—all tailored to criminal trial practice.
With 1,500+ legal professionals and 10+ networking events, the Summit creates opportunities to build referral relationships, meet potential co-counsel, and connect with trial lawyers nationwide, including through a dedicated Criminal Justice Cocktail Hour that brings criminal defense attorneys and industry partners together.
Join us in Miami Beach for the Trial Lawyers Summit and leave with sharper trial strategies and stronger professional connections.