About the Conference
The Educating Advocacy Teachers (EATS) Conference has been hosted by Stetson Law for more than two decades and remains one of the advocacy community’s most collaborative and practical gatherings for educators.
The 2026 program features social gatherings, presentations, panels, workshops, and breakout sessions that promote discussion and interaction based on trending topics identified by the national advocacy education community.
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Planning
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Recognition & Awards
Celebrating Advocacy Education
EATS recognizes leadership, scholarship, and service in advocacy teaching through annual awards and community nominations.
Lifetime Acheivement Award
Recognizes individuals for their exceptional contributions and lasting positive impact on how the art and science of advocacy is taught. This award acknowledges sustained high quality work and accomplishments through a lifetime of dedicated service and demonstrated commitment to improve advocacy education.
Edward D. Ohlbaum ("The Eddie") Award
Celebrating the dedication and commitment that our friend, Professor Edward Ohlbaum, displayed throughout his career of coaching, training, and teaching an entire generation of advocates, this award honors a relatively new coach or teacher who has displayed dedication to continuing Professor Ohlbaum's legacy of training competent and well-rounded advocates while displaying the highest standards of professionalism and the rule of law in their teaching.
Cornerstone Award
Recognizes transformative members of the advocacy community who work to pioneer unique learning opportunities across the profession. Recipients are recognized for their unwavering commitment to protecting the right to trial by jury, developling innovative advocacy skills training opportunities, and contributing to the success of others. Because this award celebrates a person whose contributions are novel or may be based on a singular and distinct initiative, it is not offered annually.
Featured Faculty & Presenters
Conference Speakers
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A.J. Bellido de Luna
A.J. Bellido de Luna, J.D., is the Associate Dean of Advocacy and International Partnerships and the Hardy Professor of Practice...
Lisa Bauer
Lisa A. Bauer joined the Career Services Office in 2016. As Director of Career Strategies, she counsels students on professional...
Todd Berger
Professor Todd A. Berger joined the College of Law faculty in 2012 and is currently a Professor of Law, serving...
Justin Bernstein
Professor Bernstein is a trial consultant who helps attorneys prepare for trial. Before joining UCLA, he was a litigator at...
Elizabeth Boals
Liz Boals teaches Evidence, Criminal Law, and a variety of Advocacy courses and serves as the Director of the Center...
Marian Braccia
Marian Grace Braccia is the Director of the LL.M. in Trial Advocacy and a Practice Professor of Law at Temple...
Jeff Brooks
Jeffrey Brooks is a Professor of Professional Practice and the Preis PLC Director of Advocacy and Professional Practice at the...
Amy Catledge
Amy Catledge is a senior associate with the Ruth Law Team and has been with the firm for nearly twenty...
Lance Caughfield
Lance Caughfield is the Director of Advocacy Programs and Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Advocacy at SMU Dedman School of...
Suzanne Chapman
Professor Suzanne Chapman teaches Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing; Trial Advocacy; Advanced Evidence; and Construction Law, and serves as Director...
Carlos Concepción
Carlos Concepción has served as counsel in a wide range of domestic and international litigation and arbitration matters, with a...
Elizabeth (Beth) Cooke
While in law school, Professor Elizabeth Ilgen Cooke was active in the moot court programs and served as vice president...
Jeniffer Copland
Professor Copland's experience in public speaking and advocacy began as a competitive high school debater and continued at the University...
Megan Daic
Megan Daic is an attorney, mediator, and the Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Competition Team at the University...
Kate Donoghue
Kate Donoghue earned her B.A. from Bowdoin College and her J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Fordham Law School, where she...
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Jules Epstein
Jules Epstein is the Edward D. Ohlbaum Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at Temple University Beasley School...
Taylor Freeman Peshehonoff
Professor Taylor Peshehonoff joined the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2023, serving as Director of Competition and Director...
Benjamin Garmoe
Benjamin Garmoe is the Salsbury Director of Trial Advocacy for the National Trial Team at the University of Maryland Francis...
Tony Ghiotto
Tony Ghiotto is the inaugural director of the Kimball R. and Karen Gatsis Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism and...
Mike Golden
Mike Golden is a lecturer and the Director of Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law. He practiced...
Cynthia Goode Works
Cynthia Goode Works brings a unique blend of education, training, and experience to the practice of law. She holds a...
John Henry
John Henry is a 1999 graduate of Loyola Law School, where he and his teammates won the Georgetown White Collar...
Dominique Hinson
Professor Dominique Hinson joined the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law faculty as Associate Director of Trial Advocacy...
Stephanie Johnson
Stephanie L. Johnson is the Associate Director of the Stephen S. Weinstein Advocacy Program at AUWCL. A seasoned litigator and...
Joshua Jones
Joshua Jones joined Northwestern Pritzker Law in 2022 as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Bartlit...
Mike Kitzman
Michael Kitzman graduated from the American University Washington College of Law in 2007. He has spent the last 17 years...
Simone Leighty
Simone Leighty graduated with Distinction from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law with a concentration in Trial...
Robert Little
Robert Little joined Baylor Law School as Director of Advocacy Programs and Lecturer in 2019, after nearly fourteen years in...
Rhani Lott-Choi
Rhani Lott Choi, J.D., Ed.D., is the Associate Executive Director of Education at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA),...
The Honorable Melissa S. May
Melissa S. May was appointed to the Indiana Court of Appeals by Governor Frank O'Bannon in 1998. Before her appointment,...
Keith Morgan
Keith V. Morgan is an Associate Professor of Law at UDC Clarke School of Law, where he teaches Evidence, Property,...
Kelly Navarro
Kelly Navarro is the Director of the Law School's Trial Advocacy and Dispute Resolution Program. She manages the nationally ranked...
Spencer Pahlke
Spencer Pahlke's practice at Walkup focuses on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases involving gas explosions, defective products, vehicular...
Phil Pasquarello
Phil Pasquarello is the Director of Drexel Kline's nationally ranked Trial Advocacy program. As a trial lawyer at Kline and...
Joanna Perini-Abbott
Jo Perini-Abbott joined Lewis and Clark Law School as the Director of the Lewis and Clark Advocacy Center and Professor...
Katie Powers
Assistant Dean of Advocacy Katie Powers brings real-world trial and appellate experience to Mercer University School of Law's advocacy program,...
The Honorable Jim Roberts
Honorable James H. (Jim) Roberts Jr. is a circuit court judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Alabama and Director...
Laura Rose
Professor Laura Anne Rose is an Associate Professor of Law and Heidepriem Trial Advocacy Fellow at the University of South...
Jared Rosenblatt
Jared Rosenblatt has been an adjunct professor and faculty advisor of Hofstra's Trial Advocacy Association (HTAA) since 2007, coaching teams...
Carson Sadro
Carson Sadro earned her B.A. in Economics from the University of South Florida in 2016 and her J.D. from the...
Daniel Schaffzin
Daniel M. Schaffzin joins the University of Tennessee Winston College of Law in August 2025 as the Director of the...
Jennifer Scharf
Jennifer Scharf is the Associate Dean for Career Services and Director of Trial Advocacy at the University at Buffalo School...
Alexandria Serra
Alexandria Serra, J.D., MBA, is the Advocacy Teaching Fellow at UMKC School of Law, where she teaches trial and appellate...
Adam Shlahet
As Director of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center, Adam Shlahet manages every facet of the nationally ranked trial advocacy...
Adam Sokoloff
Adam Sokoloff joined the KU School of Law in May 2022 as a supervising attorney in the Paul E. Wilson...
David Schott
David C. Schott graduated with Dean's List Honors from Carnegie-Mellon University and received his J.D. with Moot Court Honors from...
Joanna Van Dyke
Joanna Van Dyke graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in 1987 and has practiced law in New York since,...
Kris Vicencio
Kris Vicencio's responsibilities at UBalt Law cover evening student advising and programming, student wellness programming, advising the two law journals,...
The Honorable Christine Weems
Judge Christine Weems is a double board-certified trial attorney in Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law and, since...
Matt Woodham
Matt Woodham is an associate professor of advocacy and assistant director of advocacy programs at Cumberland School of Law. A...