TLU Performance Skills
TLU Performance Skills
Sometimes the difference between a good case and a great result isn’t what you say. It’s how you say it. In the courtroom, presence matters. Jurors decide who they trust and who they want to follow long before closing argument. This training is about becoming the kind of lawyer jurors lean into, believe in, and want to deliver justice for. Join us in Hermosa Beach for five days of hands-on performance training in a setting that lets you focus, reset, and sharpen your skills. You’ll work on eye contact, cadence, body movement, and delivery, learning how to connect with jurors and bring your case to life.
Led by Dan Ambrose and Giorgio Panagos, you’ll start with a training case, then apply what you’ve learned to your own voir dire, opening, cross, and closing. This is an immersive work and recharge experience designed to help you show up with more clarity, credibility, and command.
Students must bring a case to work on, complete prep assignments, and attend weekly Zoom meetings. You will record and review your presentations multiple times. This preparation ensures that you arrive ready to make the most of the bootcamp.
What We'll Work On:
This is trial performance training from the ground up. Over five days, you’ll build the physical, vocal, and psychological skills needed to deliver your case with clarity, control, and connection. You won’t just learn what to do. You’ll practice doing it again and again until it becomes instinct.
Participants will have the opportunity to develop:
Eye contact and micro connection
to build trust with every juror in the box
Cadence, pacing, and vocal control
to guide juror attention and make complex ideas easier to follow
Emotional congruence
so your tone, facial expression, and body language match your message
Hand and body movement
that supports your narrative without becoming a distraction
Glance control and spatial awareness
to direct focus and create an immersive story
Word economy and language choice
that strengthens your credibility and keeps jurors engaged
Listening as a persuasive tool
to create connection and show presence
Physical stillness and courtroom presence
that ground you in high pressure moments
Performance rhythm
in openings, crosses, and closings that holds attention from start to finish
Location:
Hermosa Beach, California.
For venue details, contact Dan Ambrose at 1-248-808-3130 or dan@triallawyersuniversity.com.
Dec 13–20, 2026
Five days of hands-on performance training: cross examination, witness preparation, direct examination, and opening statement delivery. Work from a shared training case, then apply the skills to your own case.
In the room with you.
I grew up in Birmingham, MI. I am the youngest of eight children and attended an all-boys catholic school my whole life until I went to college at the University of Michigan. I went to night school at Detroit College of Law. My dad, my uncle, two of my brothers, and sister were lawyers. My first job was cutting lawns at age 10. I started working for my brother as a house painter at age 12. When I was 16 I started my own painting business and continued throughout high school, college, and law school, and a few years after until I was 32. I practiced law for eighteen years in Michigan until ten years ago when my roommate from the Trial Lawyers College, Nick Rowley, encouraged me to move to LA to become a PI lawyer. The California Bar took me four tries. I moved to Las Vegas this past March. I have recently taken up pickle ball, skiing and golf. I also think I'm competitive at connect four, backgammon, chess, and ping pong.
I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area to an Armenian mother and Greek father. I attended Berkeley High School, University of California, Riverside and Golden Gate University, School of Law. While in law school, I worked at my father's chocolate shop in Palo Alto giving tasting tours and teaching customers about the history and production of the world's finest cacao. After passing the CA bar in 2019, I moved to Los Angeles to practice personal injury law. Shortly after founding my own firm in 2021, I cofounded Lawzilla.co, a case referral marketplace where attorneys can find cases to grow their practices and refer cases they would otherwise drop. In addition to running my startup, I work closely with Trial Lawyers University, coaching attorneys on trial presentation skills. I speak fluent Greek and enjoy traveling, reading, spending time with family and playing piano.
More 2026 bootcamps.
Dec 13–20 · Hermosa Beach.
Five days of hands-on performance training with Dan Ambrose and Giorgio Panagos.