Elocution/Mock Trials/ Meetings

You cannot learn to think on your feet in front of a bench by reading about it — you learn it by standing up, being interrupted, and continuing anyway. Elocution, mock trials and simulated meetings are this module's answer to that problem: structured practice in exactly the pressured speaking situations a legal career is full of.

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Elocution, mock trials and mock meetings are practical training formats that put oral communication theory into supervised practice, building clear articulation, persuasive structure, and composure under questioning — skills a law student needs long before their first real courtroom appearance or client meeting.

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