Saturday Enrichment Program
Saturdays on campus: direct and cross examination, opening and closing, motions and objections, practiced in the courtrooms rather than described in a book.
Skills, in the room where they are used
The Saturday Enrichment Program is where the advocacy training happens as training rather than as theory. Students practice direct and cross examination, argue motions, make and meet objections, and run mock trials in the courtrooms on campus.
It is included in tuition. It is not an extracurricular you sign up for separately and it is not reserved for the third year.
The weekly Barrister
Every Saturday CDTA hosts a Barrister luncheon. Students, practicing attorneys and judicial officers eat together and talk about what they are actually working on.
For a student, that is the local legal community becoming a set of people you know rather than a directory. Riverside County is where most CDTA graduates practice, and the room you are eating lunch in is the room you will be appearing in front of.
Student support
CDTA students and alumni form a close network and share study strategies, examination tactics and advice about balancing school with work and home life.
The school states it plainly: students have found that together they can accomplish what might be impossible alone. Law school is partly an exercise in attrition, and CDTA commits to keeping students in it.
Study at, or graduation from, this law school may not qualify a student to take the bar examination or to satisfy the requirements for admission to practice in jurisdictions other than California.
CDTA College of Law is a law school registered with the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. It is not accredited by the American Bar Association or by the Committee of Bar Examiners. Read the full required disclosure before you apply.
Common questions
The Registrar, Irene Garcia Dolan, answers eligibility and program questions directly. Call (760) 342-0900 or send a message.
Other programs
- Juris Doctor Program
A four-year course of study built on California bar-tested subjects, skills training, and values reinforcement, taught inside a real courtroom. - Distance Learning Option
Live 50 miles or more from the Indio campus? Complete most of your studies from home and still earn your J.D. - Bar Preparation
Internal FYLSX course reviews, AdaptiBar, and ExamSoft, all included in tuition, so exam day is not the first time you sit under exam conditions.
The courtroom is waiting.
Join the only law school in the Coachella Valley, in a program built around trial advocacy from the first term.
Or call the Academy, (760) 342-0900
45-290 Fargo Street, Indio, CA 92201