Paralegals & lawyers — operate the case yourself.

For paralegals — the career rung above paralegal.

Litigation paralegals and legal assistants have spent careers preparing trials — building exhibit binders, organizing designation/counter-designation workflows, coordinating with outside vendors, and watching from the next chair while a trial tech runs the show. CTTS is the credential that lets you be that trial tech instead of working alongside one. It's the most under-told career path in litigation support, and one of the fastest-rising day rates in the field.

You're already half-trained.

You already know what an objection means before the judge sustains it. You already understand the difference between publish and admit. You already know how a trial day is paced, how a binder is organized for cross, and which side of counsel table the lead chair sits on in this circuit. That's exactly the knowledge most video-side trial techs spend years catching up on. What you have to learn is the technology — TrialDirector, signal flow, encoding, sync, and the kit that runs the show without becoming the show. CTTS is built around that gap.

What changes when you carry the CTTS designation.

Working CTTS holders charge $1,000–$2,500/day plus travel for trial engagements. Multi-week trials produce single engagements worth more than a month of paralegal salary. The firm hiring you doesn't have to choose between "the paralegal who knows the case" and "the trial tech who knows the software" — they get one person who knows both.

For lawyers — the hands-on technology advantage.

Lawyers who understand the technology stack their trials run on argue more confidently, supervise vendors more effectively, and (when the moment calls for it) operate the system themselves at hearings, in mediations, and at smaller trials where bringing in a full trial-tech vendor isn't cost-justified. CTTS is the credential that proves you've put the work in — to the firm, to the bench, and to opposing counsel.

Why hands-on tech fluency is a litigation advantage.

Demonstrative motions get drafted differently when the lawyer drafting them knows what's actually possible inside TrialDirector. Vendor proposals get evaluated differently when the partner reviewing them knows what the software does and doesn't do. The cost of a trial tech for a three-day commercial arbitration is sometimes hard to justify — but if your associate or paralegal has CTTS in-house, it's a non-issue.

What CTTS gives a practicing attorney.

CTTS covers the same five chapters whether you arrive as a videographer, a paralegal, or as counsel: courtroom procedure (review for you), preparing deposition video for TrialDirector, three TrialDirector training sessions, a hands-on assessment, and a bonus webinar on the business of trial technology. You'll move quickly through Chapter 1 (which is mostly your day job) and slowly through Chapters 2 and 3 (which are net-new). The TrialDirector Hands-On Assessment moves at the same pace for everyone — nobody has used the software well until they have actually used it.

One destination. Two on-ramps.

Both tracks meet at CTTS. The trial techs who command the highest rates are the ones who, regardless of which on-ramp they used, eventually own both halves cold — the law and the technology. Paralegals and lawyers arrive with the law installed. The work is to install the technology on top of it.