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Master the Six Trial Skills Crucial to Your Success
Our goal is to help you craft an emotionally compelling, visually arresting trial presentation and deliver it with all the skill, flair, and confidence it takes to win.
We start by helping you see your entire case as one story told in three acts, then help you find a conceptual frame for that story that will resonate with every juror, regardless of age, race, gender, ethnicity, political leaning, or worldview. Next, we help you choreograph the introduction of facts, evidence, witnesses, and demonstratives so that your trial presentation builds to a dramatic climax and lands with maximum impact in court. We call this process "packaging" and a well-packaged case can make all the difference between a win and a loss.
But no matter the type of case you're trying, and no matter the venue you're trying it in, every courtroom is essentially the same: the judges are overworked and impatient and the jury's attention span is short. You may be both skilled and experienced, but you're still fighting the clock and audience boredom at every turn.
And in that, you're not alone: Television producers face tough critics and impatient audiences, too. But bored or irritated TV viewers just change the channel. An irritated judge will rule against you, and a disengaged juror may miss facts, evidence, testimony, or the entire gist of an oral argument and put your client's job, business, freedom, or even life at risk with their vote.
Good pre-trial preparation and skillful packaging are therefore imperative, and after years in the trenches, we've learned that focusing on the six trial skills listed below will best prepare you for the challenges you'll face at trial:
We invite you to review as many or as few of these topics as you wish, starting with the skill you'd most like to improve. You can advance through the remaining topics simply by clicking the "Next" button at the bottom of each service page. But should you miss a service page or just want to start over, click the "BACK" button to return here.
Need help with any other trial preparation tasks in addition to, or in place of, the ones listed above? Just ask. We'll gather a "Dream Team" to help you with Jury Research, Hot Seat Operation, Courtroom or War Room Tech Design, Venue Research, Video Production, Photography, or anything else you need.
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PRIVATE COUNSEL is our way of offering you top-flight trial consulting services on a FLAT FEE basis so that you can "call in the cavalry" not just on the big, "bet-the-firm" cases, but on the medium-sized and small ones, too.
So the next time you have another "Run for the Roses" looming, let us show you how to break away from the pack and leave your opponents in the dust.