Barristers Educational Services

Barristers Educational Services celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014. Known for its lively and uniquely interesting style of CLE, Barristers was founded in 1994 by William R. Newman, an attorney in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Like most lawyers, Billy realized soon after passing the bar that law school teaches lawyers very little about the practical nuts and bolts of everyday law practice. He attended several CLE courses hoping to fill in some of the gaps and was sorely disappointed when most of these seminars failed to focus on the practical "how to's." Billy also felt that seminar reference manuals should be more than mere copies of applicable statutes. Hence Barristers was born.

The first Barristers course was offered in July 1994 in Natchez, Mississippi. Appropriately, the first speaker at this first seminar was an actual barrister, the late Lawrence Branyon, a barrister of the British bar who completed his career in Natchez. Mr. Branyon opened the inaugural Barristers offering with a very practical, step-by-step discussion of drafting basic Wills.

In the ensuing twenty years, Barristers has continued to seek out and experiment with new approaches to make CLE more useful and -- quite frankly -- less boring. Barristers courses are now offered in six states and cover virtually every area of practice. In all this time, however, Barristers remains committed to its three founding goals:

1) CLE that is interesting and practice oriented, with an emphasis on the "nuts and bolts" of law practice;

2) CLE that is affordable (as evidenced by Barristers' famous "Buy One In-Person Seminar, Get Another at Half-Price" offer);

3) CLE that is convenient to where you live and work.

Participate in our seminars at multiple venues across the South, or experience the supreme convenience of our live webcasts or on-demand courses (available anytime and anywhere with an internet connection).