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Judge Mark Drummond (ret.) is one of the most well-known advocacy teachers in the United States.

He was a trial lawyer for 20 years followed by 20 years as a trial court judge.  After retiring from the bench, he has returned to practice and is also the Judicial Director for the Civil Jury Project at NYU School of Law in New York City. 

He is the co-director for teacher training for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). He has trained advocates for the US Department of Justice, the Federated Bar Association of Japan and the Beijing and Shanghai Arbitration Commissions. He has also taught advocacy in Tanzania, Myanmar, Kosovo, Macedonia and the Navajo Nation.

In England, he has taught at the Inns of Court, Oxford University and Nottingham Law School. In 2016 he delivered international arbitration skills training to Baker Botts in London.

He has been a frequent teacher on the Solicitor Advocacy programme at the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

For CPD Training, Judge Drummond has taught arbitration advocacy at the CMS Academy in Vienna in 2012 and 2015 and Frankfurt in 2017; and at Bär & Karrer in Zurich in 2014 and 2022. In 2024 he trained lawyers from across Mayer Brown’s international network in arbitration advocacy skills. In 2019 he taught cross-examination in Hobart and Devonport, Tasmania. He also trained lawyers for the Tasmanian Solicitor-General and the Director of Prosecutions in persuading a court.