Trial Skills Training

NJP trial consultants are frequently invited to share their expertise as featured speakers or panelists at CLE programs and legal conferences. You may also make arrangements with us directly either for one-on-one training, or for a group presentation. Contact us to learn more about our “lunch time” CLE program for law firms or our hands-on voir dire training program.

Recent programs by NJP Consultants include such diverse topics as:

  • Appealing to Jurors and Understanding their Reactions
  • Beyond Death Qualification: Issues in Capital Cases
  • Challenges for Cause
  • Damages: Telling Your Story
  • Demonstrative Evidence
  • Diversity in Communication and Storytelling
  • Effective Presentation Techniques for Women in the Courtroom
  • Elimination of Bias
  • Expert Witness Credibility
  • Factors Driving Decision Making in Intellectual Property Cases
  • Generations X and Y and Their Influence in the Jury Box
  • How Cultural Differences Shape Perceptions in the Workplace and Courtroom
  • How to Select a Jury Not Afraid of Damages
  • How Will the Economic Downturn Affect Your Jury?
  • Jurors in the Digital Age
  • Jury Research Methods
  • Jury Selection Decisions for New Judges
  • Jury Selection in an Era of Dwindling Voir Dire
  • Jury Selection in Eminent Domain Cases
  • Jury Selection in Employment Cases
  • Minimizing the Impact of Problem Clients
  • Mock Jurors Real Attitudes: Employment Cases
  • Nuts and Bolts of Jury Selection in Federal Court
  • Persuasion in the 21st Century: Getting Jurors to Respond to Your Themes
  • Picking the Right Jury in your Insurance Case
  • Plaintiff’s Approach to Product Liability Litigation
  • Post-Trial Interviews
  • Premises Liability from Discovery to Verdict
  • Pulling the Curtain Back on Jury Selection: An Interactive Seminar
  • Technological Change and the Courts
  • Terrorism Defense and Post-9/11 Racial Bias Issues
  • Training for Criminal Practice
  • Trial Preparation for Employment Litigation
  • Trying a Case to a Jury During Hard Times
  • Voir Dire Do’s and Don’ts
  • Whiny Plaintiffs or Heartless Defendant: Juror Attitudes towards Disability Cases
  • You Talkin’ To Me? Practical Tips for Communicating With Your Jury

NJP Litigation Consultants have been featured speakers and panelists for many national legal and social science organizations and their local affiliates, including the following:

  • American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA)
  • American Bar Association
  • American Board of Trial Advocates
  • American Corporate Counsel Association
  • American Law Institute
  • American Society of Trial Consultants
  • American Psychology Association
  • American Psychology-Law Society
  • Association of Business Trial Lawyers
  • Attorneys General Office
  • Bridgeport Continuing Education
  • European Association of Psychology & Law
  • Federal Public Defenders
  • Forensic Expert Witness Association
  • Inns of Court
  • Law Education Institute
  • Legal Aid Society
  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • National Business Institute
  • National College of Advocacy (AAJ)
  • National Conference on Women and Law
  • National DUI Conference
  • National Employment Lawyers Association
  • National Institute for Trial Advocacy
  • Public Defenders Trial College
  • United States District Court New Judge Orientation

In addition to providing training for attorneys, NJP Litigation Consultants are honored to have been invited guest lecturers at a number of Universities and Law Schools throughout the country.