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We are excited at Curlee Legal Education to be able to offer our seminars in Knoxville, as well as consulting services for witness preparation, voir dire, and mock jury trials. Our goal is to provide dynamic and engaging seminars to enhance the communication skills necessary for the conference room or courtroom in creating rapport with both clients and jurors. From the first contact with the client to deposition or trial, learning how to optimize your vocal, verbal, and nonverbal communication skills creates a powerful advantage and can help make an ordinary attorney, extraordinary. |
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“Because of Ms. Curlee’s experience, ability, and her devotion to her work, I highly recommend her to any attorney.”
Joseph Costner, Attorney
Costner & Greene
“In my opinion, Deborah Curlee is a most valuable resource in the area of communication skills. Her courses contain a wealth of information relating to communication skills and techniques."
W. Thomas Dillard, Attorney
Ritchie, Fels, & Dillard
"I haven't enjoyed a CLE course this much since I attended NACDL."
Don Himmelberg, Attorney
 Date 5 November, 2008: "Effective Communication for Improved Client Relationships."
Mayrville, TN at the Sullivan's on West Broadway. 8:00-11:15 a.m.
Approved for 3 hours CLEs dual credit. 3 CMEs. The Cost will be $155.00/person.
Please download our registration form (click here to download) and fax it to us at (865) 769-0801.
COURSE FEES:
All CLE courses: $270 with the exception of the 3 hour CLE courses, which are $155. A 10% fee reduction is given to anyone attending in 2007 who takes 2 or more seminars in the same year. We reserve the right to cancel if we have less than 3 attorneys registered for courses. Call (865) 693-5622 for more details or e-mail us at curleecommunication@comcast.net.
Handling Difficult Clients and Resolving Conflicts Before They Get the Best of You (6 hrs. Dual Credit CLE Credit; 6 hrs. Continuing Mediation Credit) Course explores ways to understand and cope with difficult clients, such as hostile-aggressive, unresponsive, indecisive, complaining types through communication techniques. It teaches reflective listening as a powerful tool, as well as recognizing defensive mechanisms both clients and attorneys use, which can inhibit rapport. $270 for 6 hrs.
Legal Interviewing: Understanding the Client’s Needs From A Communication Perspective (6 hrs. Ethics & Professionalism CLE Credit; 6 hrs. Continuing Mediation Credit) Examines the interview, that all important first contact the client and attorney have with one another, from a communication perspective, emphasizing new ways that the attorney can conduct the interview to overcome resistance and achieve trust. $270 for 6 hrs. credit.
Effective Communication for Improved Client Relationships (3 hrs. Dual CLE Credit; 3 hrs. Continuing Mediation Credit): Provides attorneys with communication techniques to establish rapport with clients, respond more effectively, and increase client satisfaction by improving nonverbal communication skills, listening skills, conversational skills, vocal skills, and telephone skills. $150 for 3 hrs.
Effective Communication for Improved Client Relationships and for the Courtroom (3 hrs. CLECredit; 2 hrs. dual, 1 hr. general): Provides attorneys with communication techniques to establish rapport with clients, respond more effectively, and increase client satisfaction by improving nonverbal communication skills, listening skills, conversational skills, vocal skills, and telephone skills. Nashville, TN at the offices of State Volunteer. 9:00-2:30. $135 for 3 hrs.
Overcoming Challenging Communication Situations: Assertion Skills, Conflict Resolution, and Bridging the Gender Gap (6 hrs. Dual CLE credit; 6 hr. Continuing Mediation Credit): Provides methods for overcoming situations that challenge our ability to communicate. Learn to minimize conflict arising from profound differences between men and women, to effectively assert yourself and to resolve conflicts with clients/colleagues. $270 for 6 hrs. credit
Witness Preparation and Testifying: Convincing the Jury (A 3 hr.CLE approved for General Credit): Developed from Deborah Curlee’s experience as a trial consultant for civil and criminal cases in helping witnesses communicate persuasively and credibly for both depositions and trials. Aims to empower you with ways to evaluate witnesses’ communication skills (both lay and expert) to pinpoint their communication strengths and weaknesses before depositions or trial, so that they can communicate more effectively. $155 for 3 hrs. credit.
Communication For the Courtroom: Getting the Judge and Jury to Listen (A 6 hr. CLE approved for General Credit): This course goes beyond traditional trial practice methods to teach effective communication for the courtroom---what attorneys should be doing to explain and to persuade. It teaches the advocate how the jury and judge need to hear the information to process it more easily, gives insights into the preconditioned attitudes of the jurors, and teaches attorneys how to present the material to make it easier for thejury to recall it and be moved by it. $270 for 6 hrs. credit.
Deborah Curlee Hall, M.A., CCC-SLP has been in private practice in speech pathology and communication consultations since 1980, employing 28 associates. With a B.A. in psychology from Smith College and a M.A. in speech pathology from the University of Connecticut, Ms. Curlee combines a unique blend of these two areas in her communication consultations with attorneys and their clients. She has lectured at the UT College of Law, State Public Defender’s Conference, State Attorney General’s Office, and Tennessee Association for Criminal Defense lawyers. She has 8 CLE-approved law seminars in Tennessee and has been sponsored by the Knoxville, the Chattanooga, and the Blount County Bar Associations. Her articles have been in For the Defense, a publication of the Tennessee Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Assoc. magazine. Ms. Curlee is used as a communication consultant for witness preparation, jury selection, and mock trials for both civil and criminal proceedings.
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