Run a full trial from your laptop. Deliver the opening, examine the witness, argue the objection, take the judge’s ruling in real time. The whole room answers back, and every rep comes with feedback built on how trials are actually won. Practice it until it holds.
What an instructor actually needs from a practice room, and what a live classroom cannot reliably deliver.
You set the room. The case, the witness, the difficulty, and the problem you want tested. Impeachment by omission. A recollection that needs refreshing. A witness who violates the pretrial ruling and has to be handled. Then you lock it.
In a live classroom the other side is a student, so one gets three chances to impeach and another never gets one, and you grade them against the same rubric. Here the fight is the same fight. Still live, still argumentative, but the thing you meant to test is there when the student's turn comes.
Built by a trial advocacy director who prosecuted, defended, and ruled from the bench. The witness knows the case file and plays it. The judge holds you to the rules. Opposing counsel objects and takes its own shot.
A traditional trial advocacy course runs on one‑on‑one coaching. A single instructor can only watch, correct, and re‑run so many students, so a section caps at roughly a dozen. It isn’t that fewer people want to learn. It’s that hands‑on repetition doesn’t scale past one instructor’s hours, and most students reach a real jury having tried a case only a handful of times.
Ask any trial lawyer and they will admit two things are true. Skills you do not use go dull. And the only way to keep them sharp is to get in more reps.
Keeping your skills sharp should not cost thousands of dollars and three days away from your practice.
Feedback arrives the moment you finish, built on how trials are actually won, not on whoever happened to be free that afternoon.
Do a rep, get coached, get in another. That is how lawyers get seasoned. You learn to expect the unexpected and deliver anyway.
Learn the doctrine, drill the objections, then try the case. Each part stands alone, and each builds on the one before.
The interactive textbook. Teaches the doctrine, the rules, the objections, the moves, and gives feedback as you go, not weeks later on a grade sheet.
Coming soonThe evidence drills. Hear the question, spot the problem, state the objection and its basis, and argue it before the judge rules. Built on the Federal Rules of Evidence, so the objection is reflexive by the time it counts.
Coming soonThe simulator. Load your instructor's file, your own file, or one of ours, and try it again and again. The judge, the witness, and opposing counsel all answer in real time.
Available nowThe same room for everyone. It doesn’t care whether you’re studying for a grade or getting ready for the real thing.
Practice direct, cross, openings, and closings on your own schedule, with feedback every time. It slots in where a textbook already does.
Load your case file and run the examinations cold until they’re clean. Every competitor gets a live opponent, not a teammate reading a script.
Load your own file and put your cross on its feet against a witness that fights back. Find the weak question before opposing counsel does.
The room was built by a trial advocacy director who prosecuted, defended, and then ruled from the bench. Every role in it behaves the way the real one does.
Rules on your objections in real time and holds you to the rules of evidence, whether or not you were ready for it.
Objects, argues the objection, and takes its own shot on cross. You are not practicing against a script.
Knows the case file and plays it. Holds what helps, gives up what it has to. It knows the difference between not knowing something and not remembering it, and it will make you work for the second one.
The moment you sit down, Courtroom Drills rates the performance against a rubric built on trial advocacy best practices, the same things a coach would flag if they had the time to watch every rep.
A flipped classroom for trial skills. Students build the fundamentals on their own time so your class hours go to fine-tuning instead of teaching the basics.
In a live classroom the other side is a student. Some play opposing counsel well and some do not. Some witnesses fight back and some hand over the answer on the second question. That is real, and it is also a grading problem. One student gets three chances to impeach and another never gets one, and you are scoring them against the same rubric.
Courtroom Drills lets you build a classroom, set the room, and lock it. Same case file, same difficulty, same planted problems, every student. Nothing is scripted, so the room stays live and the witness still argues with you. What changes is that the thing you meant to test is actually there when the student's turn comes.
Bring it to your class, your team, or your firm. Tell us what you teach and we'll set you up.