Litigation Consulting
Focus Groups and Mock Trials in Preparation for Trial Events
“Trial Events” can be anything from a deposition to a motions hearing to a trial. It includes mediations, arbitrations, focus groups and mock trials. It’s a broadly inclusive term because while each of them requires a different kind of preparation...
Witness Training – Ditch The Magic List
There is a 2500 year old story about a young counsellor who was trying to help a couple of guys find a path to greater wisdom. One was a blacksmith, the other was a tailor. The young man told the blacksmith to concentrate on how all things are...
Video Depositions Part 1 – Taking a Video Deposition for Trial
Take yourself back a moment to 1978. Gas was 63 cents a gallon, the Dow was 805, the Camp David Accord was signed hopefully bringing an end to the troubles in the Middle East, the television series “Dallas” premiered, and I recorded and played back...
Video Depositions Part 2 Building an Effective Video Deposition for Trial
We took the long way around to get back where we started. How can you make what is essentially 2-6 hours of a talking head something people will want to watch? In the previous installment our dialogue focused on how to take a video deposition with...
Witness Preparation ≠ Witness Training
Originally written as HaynesBoone Trial Consultants Digest 2015 #2 You’ve prepared your witnesses. You are sure they are comfortable with all the facts, but have they been trained to walk into a room with which even you are not familiar . McKenzie...
5 Million PowerPoints a Day Can Be Wrong!
Originally presented as HaynesBoone Trial Consultants Digest 2015 #1 5 Million! That is how many PowerPoint presentations are estimated to be shown in the world every day. One researcher estimated that the legal industry alone spends 3.6...