With great success and more than 300 attorneys and law students participated in the 1st International Trial Advocacy Conference which took place at the Grand Hotel-Tijuana between October 24 and 25.

International speakers and trial advocacy training instructors from different countries (Chile, Mexico, United States and Puerto Rico) touched on important topics related to the adversarial system and implemented workshops for attorneys and investigators.

The keynote speakers were:

Claudio Pavlic (Chile), Jesús Romero López (USA), Hon. María Elena Cruz (USA), Jose Silva Riollano (Puerto Rico), German Guillen López (Mexico), Michael Mandig (USA),  Carlos Varela (USA), Ricardo Garcés (USA/Mexico), Sergio Cuen Sandoval (Mexico) and Jose Cervantes Kirk (Mexico).