Dan Jewell Trial Institute Application Open

The Dan Jewell Trial Institute is designed to help less experienced Nebraska lawyers enhance their legal skills necessary to try a lawsuit. Attorney participants will have an opportunity to: examine and impanel a six-person jury; deliver opening statements; call, examine and cross examine witnesses; produce depositions evidence; offer exhibits and review instructions and argue the case. Each attorney participant is assigned a trial mentor who will critique the participant's performance. Each trial will have two attorney participants representing the proponent and two attorney participants representing the opponent of the will in this case.

  • Tuition: $225 to be mailed by July 9, 2021, to the Nebraska State Bar Foundation
  • CLE Credit: 10.5 hours approved by the Nebraska Supreme Court MCLE Commission
  • Deadline: Please complete your application by 5:00 p.m. CST on June 16, 2021
  • The next Jewell Trial Institute will take on July 30 and 31, 2021 at University of Nebraska College of Law.

Contact Doris Huffman at 402-475-1042 or email danjewelltrialinstitute [at] nebarfnd.org

 Click here for the application

Dan Jewell Trial Institute