{"id":20513,"date":"2016-05-27T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=20513"},"modified":"2016-05-27T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:58:57","slug":"joshua-karton-received-lifetime-achievement-award-excellence-teaching-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2016\/05\/27\/joshua-karton-received-lifetime-achievement-award-excellence-teaching-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stetson presents Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stetson University College of Law presented Joshua Karton, who\u00a0specializes in teaching how to apply the communication skills of theatre, film and television to the art of trial advocacy, with\u00a0this year\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy\u00a0on May 24 on the\u00a0Gulfport campus. The award\u00a0recognizes people who have fundamentally changed the way in which the world approaches the teaching of advocacy.\u00a0Karton pioneered teaching the communication arts to lawyers.<\/p>\n

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(L-R): Joshua Karton with Professor of Excellence in Trial Advocacy Charles Rose during the Educating Advocates: Teaching Advocacy Skills Conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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(L-R): Professor Liz Lippy, retired Justice David A. Erickson the recipient of last year’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching in Advocacy, and Professor Charles Rose.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

American University Washington College of Law Professor Elizabeth L. Lippy received Stetson’s\u00a0Edward D. Ohlbaum Award, which\u00a0honors an individual whose life and practice display sterling character and unquestioned integrity, coupled with ongoing dedication to the highest standards of the legal profession and the rule of law.<\/p>\n

Both awards were presented in conjunction with Stetson’s\u00a0Educating Advocates Teaching Advocacy Skills Conference on May 23-26.<\/p>\n

The annual Educating Advocates conference invites professors, lawyers and legal practitioners from across the country to spend two and one-half intensive days learning the Stetson method of advocacy, developing their teaching skills, and networking with renowned advocacy instructors.<\/p>\n

The theme of this year\u2019s conference was \u201cTeaching Skills: Building the 21st Century Law School-One Student, One Skill, One Moment at a Time,\u201d and included a special Teacher Advocacy Training Session. Stetson’s renowned trial advocacy program consistently ranks at the top among law schools around the country in the U.S. News & World Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n