Trial Guides is proud to have Rick Friedman as one of its authors. Rick built his reputation representing regular people and small businesses injured by large corporate and government interests. He has obtaining large verdicts in difficult cases in the fields... Read more

David Ball is the founding partner of Miller Malekpour & Ball Consulting in North Carolina. He is a nationally known trial consultant, communications expert, and best-selling author who specializes in focus groups, case analysis and presentation... Read more

Patrick Malone is one of the leading attorneys in the eastern United States who represents victims of serious personal injuries against doctors, hospitals, drug manufacturers, government agencies, and other defendants. He has won a long series... Read more

Gerry Spence has been a trial attorney for more than five decades and proudly represents "the little people." He has had more multi-million dollar verdicts without an intervening loss than any other lawyer in the United States. He has fought and won for the... Read more

Paul Luvera has over fourteen jury verdicts in personal injury cases that exceed a million dollars. He has obtained record jury verdicts in Washington, Oregon and Idaho of $44 million, $29 million, and $20 million. His settlements include multiple ones... Read more

Moe Levine is widely recognized as one of the leading trial lawyers of his day. He was an eloquent speaker and frequent lecturer to legal audiences around the country. Even today, his out-of-print used books command prices of $1000 or more. He developed the... Read more

Described as the "king" of Texas medical malpractice lawyers by Forbes magazine in 1989, Jim M. Perdue, Sr. has for the past forty years been a trail blazer in bringing new concepts to the art of jury persuasion. Forty years ago, he used an economist to calculate... Read more

William Barton has been practicing law for thirty-five years, and has tried over 500 jury trials. A noted lecturer in thirty-five states and four countries, Barton has obtained numerous large verdicts in medical malpractice, child abuse, and product liability cases. He is... Read more

Don is a third-generation Irish-American. His great grandparents emigrated from Ireland and met on the boat while traveling to the United States. Don never knew his father because he died when Don was less than two years old from a preventable boiler... Read more

Dr. Michael D. Freeman is a specialist in the fields of forensics, crash reconstruction, and injuries sustained in automobile accidents. He has published numerous articles in scientific, medical, and legal journals, and has contributed to several books on these... Read more

Eric Oliver has specialized in nonverbal, verbal, and implicit communication skills for over twenty-eight years, twenty-five of those years working with attorneys. Along with teaching effective communication skills to attorneys and their firms, he spends most... Read more

Karen Koehler is a partner at the Stritmatter Kessler Whelan Coluccio law firm, which dedicates its practice to representing injured plaintiffs. She is past president of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association and received its Trial Lawyer of the Year... Read more

As a partner in the Phoenix law firm of Snyder & Wenner, P.C., Mr. Wenner has spent the last two decades prosecuting wrongful death and catastrophic injury accident cases, speaking to lawyers across the country on juror bias and decision-making, and... Read more

David Markowitz is a founding partner of the business litigation firm Markowitz, Herbold, Glade & Mehlhaf, P.C. He shepherded the firm from its beginning as an ambitious two‐attorney litigation firms in the region. Dave is a much sought‐after, national... Read more

Robert T. Hall is among the most experienced trial lawyers in Virginia. For more than 40 years, he has represented the families of those killed or those who were seriously injured through medical neglect, product defects and transportation accidents. His... Read more

A partner with Shapiro Bettinger Chase, LLP, Carl Bettinger, has litigated hundreds of personal injury, medical malpractice and nursing home neglect claims. He holds the two largest personal injury verdicts in New Mexico. He is a popular speaker on trial... Read more

Joane Garcia-Colson graduated with honors from the University of Denver College of Law in 1990 and is the former executive.director of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College. Joane is a trial lawyer in Palm Springs, California, and has represented numerous... Read more

Fredilyn Sison is an honors graduate of Cornell University and New York University School of Law. For most of her career, she has been a public defender, a job she loves. She has served as an assistant federal defender in the Districts of Idaho, Nebraska, and... Read more

Mary Peckham grew up in Colorado, where she makes her home. After graduation from the University of Washington in Seattle, Mary became a VISTA volunteer in Detroit and stayed in Michigan to be a director and counselor for disadvantaged... Read more

Bill Bailey is a trial lawyer in Seattle, Washington who has taught and written about advocacy techniques for over thirty years, with many articles in national lawyer magazines. Bill has focused on applying human behavior, learning and communication research... Read more