We frequently present to national and local legal groups, in house counsel of corporations, and national litigation teams handling serial litigation.  We also assist law firms with in-house trial advocacy programs.

Below are listed some of our most recent presentations, listed by practice area or general topic.  If you are interested in an area of law that you do not see listed here, please contact us.  We may already have a presentation on that topic, or we can draw from our extensive in-house data to create a presentation that meets your firm or group's specific needs.

General Trial & Jury Issues

• Advocacy & Diversity

San Diego County Bar Association—CLE Program:  "Advocacy and Diversity"

• Dealing with Damages

Defense Research Institute:  "Jury Selection and Evaluation: Defending Damages versus Liability: Do I Want the Same Jurors?"

Defense Research Institute:  "Strategies for Minimizing Damages in High Damages Cases"

Defense Research Institute:  "Making Your Damages Argument Persuasive"

Defense Research Institute:  "What Jurors Need to Hear about the Punitive Damages Case"

• Jury Reform

ABA Brookings Institution Symposium:  "Charting a Future for the Civil Jury System"

• Jury Selection

Baylor University:  "Designing Voir Dire for Strategic Advantage"

Inns of Court, Judge Abner McCall:  "Jury Selection"

• Regional Differences in Trials

American Board of Trial Advocates' National Conference:  "Regional Differences in Trial Strategy and Outcome"

• Tips & Strategies for Litigators

ABA Litigation Committee Annual Meeting:  "The Mock Trial as a Settlement Tool"

ABA Insurance Coverage Committee:  "Mock Jurors, Past and Present"

American Inns of Court Annual Meeting:  "New Approaches to Jury Selection"

Baylor University Law School:  "Fundamentals of Trial Consulting"

California Eastern District:  "Techniques for Juror Involvement"

California State Bar, Employment Section:  "Developing Case Themes"

California Young Lawyers' Association:  "Thinking through the Eye"

Defense Research Institute:  "Trial Techniques"

Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Association:  "Approaches to Jury Selection"

Oregon State Bar:  "Tactics and Techniques from Top Trial Consultants"

• Witness Preparation

National Expert Witness Advanced Program:  "The Rise of the Expert Witness in the 1990's"

U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas:  "Witness Preparation"

National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts:  "Standing at the Crossroads of Truth and Advocacy: How to win jurors and influence outcomes through expert testimony"

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Antitrust

• San Francisco Bar Association:  "Presenting Antitrust Cases to Jurors"

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Aviation

• ABA Annual Meeting, Tort & Insurance:  "Air Crash Disaster: Picking the Right Jury"
• Air Law Symposium:  "What Jurors Bring to Trial in Aviation Litigation"

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Criminal

• LA Federal Public Defender's Office:  "Juror Attitudes and Choice in Criminal Defense"
• Orange County Public Defender's Office:  "Jury Psychology: Selecting the Panel"

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Eminent Domain

• CLE International Eminent Domain Conference:  "Getting the Most out of Your Juries: Aggressive Jury Selection Techniques & Juror-Affective Theme Development for High-Stakes Eminent Domain Cases"

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Employment

• ABA National Institute, Employment:  "Sexual Harassment and Related Employment Torts"
• Associated General Contractors:  "Labor and Employment Law Council"
• Bar Association of San Francisco:  "Annual Labor & Employment Conference"
• National Employment Law Institute:  "Use of Demonstrative Evidence in Employment Cases"
• Santa Clara Bar Association:  "High Tech Employment Litigation"
• U.S. Department of Justice, National Advocacy Center, Civil Division:  "Mock Trial for an ADA Case"
• U.S. Department of Justice, National Advocacy Center, Civil Division:  "Mock Trial for a Race Discrimination Case"

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High Tech & Computer Litigation

• Computer Law Conference:  "Cybercopia"

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Insurance

• ABA National Institue, Insurance Coverage Litigation:  "Insurance Coverage 202: Litigating the Complex Coverage Case"
• ABA National Institute, Property Insurance:  "Good Faith on Trial"
• Defense Research Institute:  "Insurance Bad Faith and Extra-Contractual Liability"
• Defense Research Institute:  "Insurance Fraud and Suspicious Claims"
• Mealey's Bad Faith Conference:  "How to Prepare a Witness in a Bad Faith Case"
• Mealey's Bad Faith Conference:  "Trying a Bad Faith Case"
• National Association of Women Languages & Women Corporate Counsel:  "Insurance Coverage Litigation"

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Intellectual Property

• American Inns of Court Annual Meeting:  "Use of Trial Consultants in Intellectual Property Litigation"
• PLI Patent Litigation Conference:  "Juror Reactions to Obviousness"

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Legal Malpractice

• ABA National Institute, Legal Malpractice:  "Jury Selection and Witness Preparation"

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Medical Malpractice & Nursing Home Litigation

• Hospital Insurance Forum:  "Medical Malpractice and Hospital Negligence"
• Mealey's Nursing Home Litigation Conference:  "Practical Insights into Jury Selection"
• National Expert Witness Advanced Program:  "Medical Malpractice and Hospital Negligence"

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Personal Injury

• National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel:  "Jury Selection in Personal Injury Litigation"

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Product Liability

• Connecticut Bar Association:  "Theme Development in Product Liability Litigation"

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Securities

• Association of Business Trial Lawyers:  "Mock Trial of a Securities Case"

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Toxic Torts

• ABA National Institute, Litigation:  "Trying Mass Toxic Tort Cases"
• DRI Asbestos Medicine Seminar:  "Sympathy Effect, Empathy Affect: Navigating Juror Reactions to Mesothelioma"

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Trucking & Transportation

• Transportation Mega-Conference III:  "Trucking and Motor Carrier Litigation"

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Witness Preparation

• LA County Bar Association:  "A Fish out of Water: The Corporate Executive as a Testifying Witness"

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