Defending People

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Why is the Trial Lawyers College Afraid of these Three Women? [Updated]

Mark Bennett | March 15, 2010

Three really smart creative empathetic lawyers—Joane Garcia-Colson, Mary Peckham, and Fredilyn Sison—are directing a four-day Trial Boot Camp in Palm Springs, California from May 13 to May 16, 2010. Tuition is $750. I know these women well from the Trial Lawyers College and psychodrama workshops, and I recommend their boot camp highly to women trial [...]

TLC Alumni Blogs

Mark Bennett | April 18, 2009

When I made my list yesterday of Trial Lawyers College alumni blogs:

Eric J. Davis
Paul Smith
Jon Katz
David Tarrell
Chuck Peterson
Remy Orozco
Ed Stapleton

I left off Collin County, Texas criminal defense lawyer Tony Vitz, who recently started blogging, and Connecticut trial lawyer Norm Pattis, who has been blogging on and off forever, as well as Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry [...]

First Blog from TLC

Mark Bennett | July 29, 2008

It turns out that Gerry Spence was not the first blogger to blog from the Trial Lawyers College on his ranch in Dubois, Wyoming. Idaho criminal defense lawyer Chuck Peterson has that distinction (with another LexBlog blog); he wrote on July 15th that TLC Will Change Your Life. Please welcome Chuck to the practical blawgosphere.Now [...]