LWOB's signature training program is the STTAT program--Support Through Trial Advocacy Training. The STTAT Model is currently available in four thematic areas:

• STTAT-EL (Electoral Violence or Electoral Challenge)
• STTAT-VAW (Violence Against Women)
• STTAT-TIP (Trafficking in Persons)
• STTAT-CRIM (Criminal Law)
• STTAT-CIV (Civil Law)
• STTAT-CIVCOM (Transition to Common Law Program)

LWOB has adopted the  NITA, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy "learning by doing" methodology and works with partners to create case files that create a case file based on local nuance and context. LWOB has added its own signature modules  to the NITA teaching method which include the use of ARS (Audience Reponse Technology) and digitized avatars for teaching sessions on Evidentiary and Special challenges. Our intense 5 day standard training program is completely interactive has garnered universal praise.

To date the teaching model has been used in groups as small as 12-15 and as large as 75 at one time without diluting the level of interaction, participation and programming quality. The LWOB STTAT model can be combined with  TOT trainings (Train the Trainer) whose ultimate goal is to create a team of trainers from the target region and Judicial Symposiums which are  PEER Trainings-- Judge to Judge trainings. Our training team consists of  up to 20 lawyers and judges  ensuring  that the training has the capacity to break out the entire training into small sessions of 10-12 trainees and one-on-one sessions with each trainee. Our team arrivals are preceeded by a small pre-arrival team which performs assessments and observations. That same team remains in country post-training to continue with post-training courtroom observation and to interview trainees to assess short and long term impact.

In addition to its collaborative relationship with NITA, LWOB has the generous pro bono assistance of trial lawyers at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi who are working with LWOB to create  training case files that are being tailored to focus on the different regional and legal  issues. Teams of lawyers at Shearman & Sterling LLP have been invovled with LWOB creating matrices of common denominators in several thematic areas, which provide the foundation for the localized mock case files.  Efforts are also underway to translate LWOB training materials into French for training in Francophone countries and to create a unique training program for countries transitioning from civil to common law systems.

The goal is to tap into the very large and growing database of highly qualified experts from around the world to create a gold standard in trial advocacy training in an international rule of law setting.