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ABOTA is working to elevate the standards of integrity, honor, and courtesy in the legal profession.

Your membership in ABOTA ensures that your voice is heard and your needs for continuing education are being met.

Members of the association establish lifelong relationships and develop the skills that will help them become successful trial attorneys.

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ABOTA Mission

General Purposes
The general purposes of this Association shall be to foster improvement in the ethical and technical standards of practice in the field of advocacy to the end that individual litigants may receive more effective representation and the general public be benefited by more efficient administration of justice consistent with time-tested and traditional principles of litigation.

Specific Purposes
The specific purposes of this Association are:

(1) To elevate the standards of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession;

(2) To aid in further education and training of trial lawyers; to work for the preservation of our jury system; to improve methods of procedure of our present trial court system; to serve as an informational center; to discuss and study matters of interest to trial lawyers; to advance the skill of its members as trial attorneys; to honor the members of the Association who have the requisite qualifications; to provide a forum for the expression of interests common to trial lawyers and to act as an agency through which trial lawyers in general, and members of the Association in particular, shall have a voice with which to speak concerning matters of common and general interest;
 
(3) To establish relations and cooperate with other legal organizations and associations for the purposes of promoting the efficient administration of justice and constant improvement of the law;

(4) To cultivate a spirit of loyalty, fellowship, and professionalism among our members; to advance the interests of the members of the Association professionally and to enable trial lawyers as a group to have an active association of standing in the community and nation through which they may learn and be heard.

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Voir Dire

Has the enforcement of arbitration clauses in consumer and employment contracts waged a full scale assualt on the 7th Amendment? This issue of Voir Dire covers mandatory arbitration clauses, impartial juries and social media , plus an insightful look at what our jurrors are really thinking.  

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Ft. Lauderdale MIT

The Fort Lauderdale chapter of ABOTA witll host A Trial Demonstration in a Premises Liability and Wrongful Death Case from Opening Statements to Jury Deliberation held May 10, 2013.  This program will be approved for 8.0 general credit hours and 1.0 hour ethics.

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May 24- June 9, 2013
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July 24-28, 2013
Quebec, Canada
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