KENYA RESCHEDULED:
LWOB's fourth successive program which has grown to include over 100 lawyers and judges and a core group of Kenyan lawyers who have trained these last three years with LWOB has been rescheduled due to increased travel advisories for the period during which the program was originally scheduled.

LWOB trainings this year were scheduled to include the introduction of a new innovative Introduction to Mediation/Negotation module created with the generous assistance of lawyers from Shearman & Sterling's Washington DC office. Preparations also included analysis of the country's new proposed consitution as it affects gender based violence and trial advocacy issues. A constitutional country-wide referendum on the new constitution will be taking place during the time when the LWOB team was scheduled to be in-country, August 4th. While extraordinary security measures have been put in place, becuase of the size of our program and the large international trainer contingent,  it was decided that all of our programming preparations would be reserved for a program roll out in 2011.

Lawyers at Jones Day and McDermott Will & Emery will continue building upon the  on the evidentiary and GBV teaching materials for future Kenya advocacy programs and the ultimate outcome of the constitutional referendum will be integrated into our training for 2011.

LIBERIA:
Our work in Liberia comes on the heels of LWOB's completion of a  large scale project meeting a need identified in its assessment three years ago for a cumulative index to the entirety of Liberian case law. Having worked with over 100 lawyers at Linklaters to index  all Liberian case law we find ourselves well positioned to incorporate Liberian case law into our programming. Lawyers at White & Case are are assisting with preparation of the teaching materials for evidence and special challenges modules that will be used in that training. The training in Liberia will teach standard basics in trial advocacy in a custom-created for LWOB mock trial scenario based upon a trafficking in persons prosecution. LWOB is partnering with Cornell University and its Avon Center to develop and deliver modules which include an overview of Trafficking and the role and use of international conventions and obligations in a trial. LWOB will include special challenges modules on substantive and evidentiary issues to include evidentiary demonstrations and programming designed to illustrate  "best practices" in victim pre-trial interview and witness preparation.

NEW THEMATIC AREAS FOR STTAT TRAININGS:
LWOB is making progress with program models that have been the subject of significant inheritance and succession research at LWOB over the last four years and hopes to start rolling out trial advocacy training in the context of succession and inheritance scenarios in 2011.  Trainings in the trial of electoral violence or electoral challenge cases are being planned for 2012.