Trial Guides Authors

Jay was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He received his undergraduate degree from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky in 1999. Jay graduated ...

Steve Benedetto is a challenger of convention, a student of leverage, a disrupter of unjust systems, and a relentless advocate for human beings. Af...

Ibiere Seck is the founder and principal trial attorney at, Seck Law P.C. where her practice focuses primarily on complex catastrophic injury, wron...

Paul is a national speaker and author. He coaches lawyers how to be more efficient with time management by offering customized workshops. When he ...

Rosalyn “Sia" Baker-Barnes is a Shareholder at Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., and the Chairperson of the firm’s Diversity, Equ...

Mark is a senior partner in the Providence, Rhode Island, law firm of Mandell, Schwartz & Boisclair, Ltd. He is admitted to practice before the...

Khail Parris is a partner with the PARRIS Law Firm, handling personal injury cases and products liability. He joined the PARRIS Law Firm in 2015 an...

Andy Young is the Managing Partner of the Cleveland office of The Law Firm for Truck Safety LLP. He was appointed by the United States Secretary of...

Maureen is a trial lawyer specializing in personal injury and wrongful death cases. Maureen began her law career as a medical malpractice defense l...

Eric Ganci is a trial lawyer at Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield, LLP, with a focus on brain injury cases. He has tried 70+ jury...

Brian is a trial lawyer who is quickly becoming known for trying and winning difficult cases. He recently gained public attention in 2022 after obt...

John G. Simon’s work as Managing Partner at The Simon Law Firm has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars for past clients, as well as an indu...

Nancy Saucedo-Jaimes has been a paralegal for over 8 years. Educated at the Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Nancy holds a degree in Paralegal St...

Nicci Unsicker is a civil attorney practicing in both state and tribal courts. Nicci graduated from the Trial Lawyers College in 2018. She is zealo...

Jack T. Cook is a partner in Morgan & Morgan’s Medical Malpractice Department specializing in Birth Injury litigation to include cases involvin...

Jennifer is the Owner and Managing Partner of the Colorado Office of Queener Law. She is originally from the Great Smoky Mountains of Knoxville, Te...

Jay Paul Deratany is an accomplished lawyer, human rights activist, and foster youth advocate who uses his experiences in the legal system to culti...

Larry Port has worked with thousands of law firms worldwide since 2008 when he started the first cloud-based legal practice management software com...

Dave Maxfield runs a boutique consumer protection practice in Columbia, South Carolina. He’s the four-time Chairman of the Consumer Law section of ...

Lupe Estrada has more than 20 years of experience as a litigation and trial Paralegal. She is the Senior Paralegal at Ramsey Law Group, a Personal ...

Scott Siegel is the Director of Litigation Support at Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors’ a litigation boutique with offices in New York and Dallas...

Randy Sorrels holds the unique distinction of being the only Texas board certified plaintiffs’ lawyer ever to have been both elected to serve as Pr...

Stephanie Mastroni is an Operations Consultant with Vista Consulting Team. She is also a lawyer admitted and licensed to practice law in New York ...

I am passionate about helping plaintiff law firms and other professional services firms make huge strides toward improving their trajectories and m...

Stephen Wagner is a chiropractor that has been working with trauma cases for over 12 years and frequently called on as an expert witness. While man...

Dr. Randall Benson is a globally regarded behavioral neurologist and imaging neuroscientist who is recognized for his advances in the diagnosis and...

Ben is 60 years old and has practiced PI since 1989. He has tried 35-40 jury trials. He is a TLC graduate and speaks on trial skills and PI practic...

Michael Cowen is one of the nation’s leading trucking lawyers.  He has over 120 jury trials and has handled over 1,000 trucking and company vehicle...

I am a licensed attorney at the forefront of “NewLaw,” the global transformation redefining how legal services are delivered. As the Director of Le...

Mary Ellen Murrah joined the Vista Team in 2019. Prior to joining Vista, Mary Ellen spent more than 16 years managing and marketing a national, leg...

Michael was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After high school he attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning his B.A. with High...

Eric is part of a dying breed of trial lawyers who tries civil and criminal cases with equal passion, sophistication, and success. Landmark cases i...

Robert T. Simon is a co-founder of the Simon Law Group — aka Justice Team — and acts as the primary trial attorney. Since launching the firm with h...

Mary McNamara Koch joined WVFO as a partner in January of 2016. Shortly after her arrival, she obtained Plaintiffs’ verdicts in two medical neglige...

Izzy Gesell is an organizational alchemist who helps individuals and organizations transform their thinking from commonplace to extraordinary. Thro...

From 1995 to 2006, and then again from 2012 to 2015, Joey served his community as an elected Councilman in Flemington, NJ. He received his J.D. fro...

For over 50 years Harold Nash has worked as a legal investigator. He’s worked for criminal defense attorneys on high level cases and plaintiff’s at...

Kathleen’s focus is on medical malpractice, personal injury, and other complex cases. She is known for the thoroughness she brings to each of her c...

Dylan graduated from Cornell University (1986) and magna cum laude from UC Hastings College of the Law (1990). He clerked in the Ninth Circuit and ...

Bob graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University (1977) and from Virginia Law School (1981). He worked as an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersh...

Oregon K. Hunter, Jr, MD is board certified in Rehabilitation Medicine, with special interest in TBI and pain.In Honolulu he ran a brain injury &am...

Maura R. Grossman is a Research Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law...

Dionnie Wynter Pfunde is a passionate practitioner of immigration law. For more than two decades, Mrs. Wynter Pfunde has tirelessly served immigran...

Rex has achieved outstanding results in the courtroom over the span of his career – he obtained the first million-dollar verdict in California’s Ke...

Greg has been a neutral with Miles Mediation & Arbitration since 2013. Relying on a comprehensive background that includes having worked as Cla...

Miracle’s practice at the CP Law Group focuses on catastrophic personal injury cases arising from trucking and automobile accidents, wrongful death...

Patrick O. Dunphy is a co-founder of Cannon & Dunphy  S.C., a firm dedicated to representing persons injured by the negligence of others since ...

Robert Little joined the faculty of Baylor Law School as Director of Advocacy Programs and Lecturer in 2019. He graduated from Baylor University wi...

Elizabeth M. Fraley joined the faculty of the Baylor Law as a full-time professor in Fall 2015. Professor Fraley, a prominent Dallas trial lawyer, ...

Spencer’s practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases involving defective medical devices, vehicular collisions, dang...

Pejman ("Pej") Ben-Cohen prides himself in representing individuals in catastrophic injury and wrongful death matters.  He has dedicated his career...

Steve graduated cum laude from Oklahoma City University and cum laude from Thomas Jefferson School of Law. He is a member of the American Board of ...

Arash Homampour is a trial attorney that represents individuals in catastrophic injury/wrongful death, employment and insurance bad faith matters t...

Doug Oh-Keith is a dedicated advocate for injured people. For over two decades, he has practiced personal injury and wrongful death law in Oregon a...

Grant A. Gehrmann has been a practicing attorney in Vancouver since 1992. He’s proud to fight for injured victims and their families against insura...

Joel E. Smith is active in the Minnesota Association for Justice (MAJ, formerly known as the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association).  He currently se...

Allan Kanner is the founding member of Kanner & Whiteley, LLC, a national firm handling first-party insurance, natural resource damages, enviro...

Lita Barnett Luvera was raised at the southwest entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park, where her parents owned and operated a AAA-rated family reso...

Julia Sherwin is an AV Preeminent Rated Lawyer who has successfully tried and settled many civil rights cases in federal and state courts.   She be...

Dale K. Galipo is one of the most recognized, well-respected and successful civil rights attorney in the State of California and the country.  He t...

Brian T. Dunn is the managing partner of the Cochran Firm California, the Los Angeles based office of founder Mr. Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr.  As one o...

Jonathan E. Lowy is the Vice President, Legal Action Project, at Brady. Since 1997 Jon has argued in courts across the country to reduce gun violen...

As a former public defender, civil practice attorney with Davis Levin Livingston in Hawaii, and Obama appointee to the Department of Labor, Erin Da...

Anne Dieruf has dedicated her entire career to battling large corporations on behalf of injured consumers and their families, specializing in injur...

For almost 30 years Kent Emison has dedicated his practice to representing individuals and their family members in personal injury cases. A Fellow...

Deborah Chang is the founder and managing partner of Athea Trial Lawyers LLP, a national law firm that promotes women trial lawyers, and a partner ...

Fell Law, PC represents plaintiffs who suffered catastrophic injuries or the death of a loved one. Bibi is one of the few women attorneys to have r...

A graduate of Austin College, where she has been recognized as a distinguished alumni, and the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, ...

One of the country’s leading trial attorneys, Los Angeles personal injury lawyer Brian Panish has obtained some of the most significant jury verdic...

Lindsey Berg is a Senior Litigation Paralegal and certified eDiscovery Specialist at The Gilbert Law Group® in Denver, CO.  The Gilbert Law Group® ...

Brian McKeen began practicing law in 1982. During his career, he has become a powerful advocate for his clients and one of the foremost medical mal...

A 1968 graduate of New York University Law School, James L. Gilbert is the owner of The Gilbert Law Group, P.C. an Arvada, Colorado law firm. The f...

Andy is the owner and CEO of Citrin Law Firm, P.C. He founded the firm in 1995 with the goal of helping injured people put their lives back togethe...

Chip Merlin was noted as the “Babe Ruth of Hurricane Lawyers” in the Asbury Park Free Press for his work on behalf of 23 municipalities and hundred...

Amy Bach has dedicated her career to promoting and defending the interests and rights of insurance policyholders in judicial, legislative, regulato...

Tom D’Amore is a trial lawyer dedicated to preserving the civil justice system. Tom has earned a reputation among insurance companies, corporations...

Since 1995, Mindy has worked in the medical – legal arena as President of Mindy Cohen & Associates, now OnPoint LNC.  Mindy’s practice includes...

Dov Slansky is the Vice President of Solution Engineering and founding member of Litify, a cloud-based firm management solution. He is also a pract...

Rio Peterson is the Affinity Programs Manager at Clio. She initially joined Clio in 2017 as a member of Clio’s award-winning Customer Support team ...

Kelly Charles-Collins, CEO of HR Legally Speaking, LLC, has the unique ability to make difficult and sensitive topics more approachable.  She is a ...

Jory Lange is a food poisoning lawyer with a nationwide practice.  When corporations sell food contaminated with E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, Vib...

A New York native, James was admitted to the State University of New York at Albany in the fall of 1982 at the age of sixteen. He graduated cum lau...

Rhonda D. Orin is the managing partner of the Anderson Kill’s Washington, D.C. office. Rhonda has recovered more than $1 billion for policyholders ...

Stephen D. Palley is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Anderson Kill and a member of the firm’s award winning insurance recovery practice....

Daniel J. Healy is a partner in Anderson Kill's Washington, D.C. office. He started his career with Anderson Kill over 20 years ago and served for ...

Ricardo Echeverria is a trial attorney with Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP, handling insurance bad faith and catastrophic personal injury cases. M...

As a preeminent consumer attorney, Michael J. Bidart has made a major impact on the United States healthcare system. Mr. Bidart is the Managing Par...

Houghtaling is a nationally recognized attorney who is majority partner of New Orleans-based Gauthier Murphy & Houghtaling, LLC, the law firm c...

Richard has experience litigating a wide variety of first- and third-party insurance coverage issues.  He also has experience in international arbi...

Mr. Miller is a licensed attorney in California.  Since 1990, Mr. Miller’s practice has been devoted to insurance law.  Prior to 1990, Mr. Miller w...

Dirk Arends is the president of Virtual Systems, a cloud-first IT company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Virtual Systems helps companies build se...

Thomas A. Crosley is a personal injury trial specialist, and has obtained numerous multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts during his career....

Chip LaFleur became involved in website development early on when he used a dialup connection to explore the bulletin board system (a precursor to...

Russell Corker is a 1974 graduate of Boston University School of Law who began his carrier as an Assistant District Attorney in Nassau County. In 1...

Megan M. Hottman, attorney and founder of Hottman Law Office in Golden, Colorado (Est. 2010), specializes in representing injured bicyclists and i...

Trisha Thompson is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Portland office, where her practice focuses on ethics and risk management fo...

Jeremy Babener is a nationally recognized tax attorney who focuses his practice on lawsuit awards, settlements, and complex structures. He serves a...

Jack Meligan is the founder and president of Settlement Professionals, Inc., a national plaintiff-only settlement planning firm. He is also the fou...

Jesse Wilson is a communications specialist, keynote speaker, and jury trial lawyer consultant. A Juilliard graduate, after twenty years of working...

Mel Orchard has been trying cases throughout the United States for over 24 years – the past 14 of which were as one of Gerry Spence’s partners.  Me...

As a confidential case consultant, Wendy has provided advice on jury selection, witness preparation, and trial strategies on over twelve hundred fo...

Stuart I. Teicher, Esq. is a professional legal educator who focuses on ethics law and writing instruction. A practicing attorney for over two deca...

Since graduating from Stanford Law School in 1972, Elden Rosenthal has been honored to receive the most prestigious awards given out by the Oregon ...

Mark Romano is an expert in claims’ injury evaluation software systems. He served as the top expert in the home office of Allstate and was responsi...

Candess Zona-Mendola is the senior trial paralegal of the Lange Law Firm, PLLC. She has been a paralegal for over two decades, was educated at Chap...

Glen Zielinski is a Chiropractic Physician and Board Certified Functional Neurologist. He graduated Suma Cum Laude from Parker College of Chiroprac...

Dr. Herbst is an M.D. board certified radiologist with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry who completed a fellowship in MRI and is now practicing in St....

Sean K. McElligott, a graduate of Yale Law School, is an experienced trial lawyer who has obtained numerous record-setting medical malpractice verd...

Michael Koskoff tried countless high-profile medical malpractice cases to verdict and achieved a record number of multimillion-dollar verdicts. He ...

Dorothy consults with attorneys throughout the U.S., to provide methods of expert testimony cross-examination and also to conduct cross-examination...

Trial work is my second career, although it’s now lasted so long that it’s hard to remember when I was an on-air television news reporter and journ...

Eugene Anderson created insurance law as we know it, and is an icon in the field of insurance law.  Anderson’s life story demonstrates what you can...

Francis L. Wellman was a practicing attorney in New York and an assistant district attorney in New York City.  He wrote one of the earliest and mos...

Don Bauermeister is a one of the great minds in the trial bar.  Don handles complex litigation as trial counsel, co-counsel and trial strategist in...

Marvin Lewis was a pioneer of the legal concept of psychological or “psychic" injury, arguing in a 1959 case that a female client became psychotic ...

Stanley Preiser was considered to be one of “the best” trial lawyers of the 20th Century. Preiser was one of the last great lawyers who could liti...

Thomas F. Lambert Jr. was a Rhodes Scholar and graduated from Oxford University and Yale Law School. After World War II, he was personally selected...

Mark R. Kosieradzki is a board-certified civil trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and the Minnesota State Bar Association. He i...

 Karen Koehler, also known as the Velvet Hammer, is the Senior Managing Partner at Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore, a plaintiff trial law firm th...

Joshua Karton specializes in applying theater and film communication techniques to the art of trial advocacy. He and his projects have received awa...

Gary C. Johnson has been successfully representing plaintiffs in personal injury cases for thirty-five years. He is the founder of Gary C. Johnson,...

Robert Hirschhorn is lawyer and a jury and trial consultant. After graduating from St. Mary's University School of Law in 1981, he tried cases as a...

Steven Halteman lives in Los Angeles with his significant other and her two lovely children. He is also a trial strategist and jury consultant for ...

Robert T. Hall is among the most experienced trial lawyers in Virginia. For more than forty years, he has represented the families of those killed ...

Ned Good began practicing law in California in 1952. Ned was a trailblazing trial lawyer. Over a career that spanned five decades, he earned local ...

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...

Sean helps traumatically-brain injured clients by holding accountable the wrongdoers who caused the injuries. Sean prosecutes brain injury cases in...

Dr. Michael Freeman is a consultant in forensic medicine, and as such is a member of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine (FFLM) of the Royal...

Roger J. Dodd has active offices in Park City, Utah (Dodd Law), Valdosta, Georgia (Dodd and Burnham), and Jacksonville, Florida (Spohrer and Dodd) ...

Sari de la Motte is a nationally recognized trial consultant, speaker, and certified coach. She has trained extensively with an internationally re...

Greg Cusimano is the co-creator of the Jury Bias Model™ (with David Wenner), a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, Best Lawyers of Ame...

Philip H. Corboy was a fierce advocate for victims of automobile accidents, plane crashes, corporate negligence, and medical malpractice in a caree...

Sean Carter is the co-founder of Mesa CLE, a company devoted to solid legal continuing education with a healthy dose of laughter. Sean draws heavil...

Paul Byrd has been representing deserving injured victims for almost 30 years. After graduating from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 19...

Rainey Booth is one of the few plaintiff's attorneys in the country to focus exclusively on defective medical product and drug injury cases. While ...

Bill Barton has been practicing law for thirty-five years, and has tried over five hundred jury trials. A noted lecturer in thirty-five states and ...

Robert W. Bailey is a nationally recognized trial consultant specializing in visual communication and story development. For over twenty years he h...

Peter M. Anderson was born to be jury trial lawyer. Mr. Anderson is a former insurance claims adjustor, current national trial tactics lecturer an...

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 catastr...

Dennis Suplee is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP. Mr. Suplee has handled a wide range of civil case...

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 def...

Charlette Sinclair has dedicated her career to helping lawyers maximize settlement value for their legitimately injured clients. Her background isn...

Paul J. Scoptur exclusively represented plaintiffs since graduating from Marquette University Law School in 1978. He was on the Board of Directors ...

Mila Ruiz Tecala was a licensed clinical social worker and a recognized international authority on grief counseling. She spent her thirty-year care...

Nicholas Rowley has a history of service starting out serving in both the United States Air Force and United States Army. While in both branches he...

Courtney Rowley is a trial lawyer, mother of three, and the author of three books: Trial By Woman, Running with The Bulls, and Voir Dire and Openin...

John F. Romano of Romano Law Group in West Palm Beach, Florida, is board certified by the Florida Bar and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy a...

Jay Rinsen Weik Sensei is an ordained Zen Buddhist abbot, priest, and teacher. He is a transmitted lineage holder through James Myoun Ford Roshi of...

Nicole Reimann is a partner at Batchis Nestle & Reimann in Bala Cynwyd, PA. Before joining the firm, Nicole was a partner at Schnader Harrison ...

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 ...

Matt first practiced law with a prominent insurance defense firm in Tallahassee, Florida. The firm represented over 20 insurance companies and defe...

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 tr...

Mary Peckham grew up in Colorado, where she makes her home. After graduation from the University of Washington in Seattle, Mary became a VISTA volu...

"When it comes to the Case Story, all development and no delivery makes Johnny a losing lawyer." —Eric Oliver Eric has specialized in nonverbal, ve...

Michael Lawson Neff has been practicing law since 1994.  He leads his own law firm, Neff Law, with four attorneys, handling catastrophic personal i...

Greg Munro is a past president of the Montana Trial Lawyers Association. He practiced full time as a civil trial lawyer in Billings, Montana, for t...

Iain Morley is a barrister and practices in criminal law from chambers at 23 Essex Street, London. He has practiced in all aspects of domestic crim...

Founding Partner of Morgan and Morgan John Morgan was inspired to become a plaintiff lawyer when his brother Tim sustained a spinal cord injury whi...

Phillip H. Miller spent the first twenty years of his practice refining his approach to and understanding of depositions, persuasion, communication...

Debra Miller brings her unique perspective from her twenty-plus year career in advertising, market research, and communications. Her work delves be...

Randi McGinn is the senior partner in a five-woman, two-man law firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is known for her creativity in the courtroom a...

Jim McComas defended people accused of the most serious crimes for thirty years, in both state and federal courts. After graduating from Harvard La...

Patrick Malone learned how to ask questions and get answers as an award-winning investigative journalist. Now he is a leading attorney working on b...

Artemis Malekpour is a partner in the litigation consulting firm of Malekpour & Ball Consulting.  With a background in psychology and psychiatr...

Paul Luvera has over fourteen jury verdicts in personal injury cases that exceed a million dollars. He has obtained record jury verdicts of $41 mil...

Zoe is one of America’s most respected litigators-a standout talent even among the most talented trial lawyers. Her practice focuses on complex cas...

Louise Lipman, LCSW-R, TEP, CGP is a licensed psychotherapist and a certified trainer, educator, and practitioner of psychodrama, sociometry, and g...

In the legal community, Moe Levine is a mix of pioneer, celebrity, genius, and hero. Moe Levine was arguably the greatest civil lawyer of his time ...

Michael Leizerman is a founder of The Law Firm for Truck Safety, which handles truck accident litigation across the United States.  He is the co-fo...

James B. “Jim” Lees, Jr. is a trial lawyer who has tried over 250 cases to verdict. He is also a jury consultant specializing in the use of psychol...

Edward H. Lazarus is a partner in the trial strategy firm Winning Works, LLC. In addition to working with lawyers in private practice, Lazarus's cl...

Theodore I. Koskoff received his juris doctor degree in 1936 from Boston University Law School. He practiced law in Bridgeport, Connecticut, a univ...

Tyler spent the first 10 years of his career in the legal industry as a Visual Litigation Consultant with the nation’s premier provider of legal e...

Don is a third-generation Irish-American. His great grandparents emigrated from Ireland and met on the boat while traveling to the United States. D...

Dr. A. M. Gamboa, Jr., holds a PhD from The Ohio State University in vocational counseling. He has completed postdoctoral study in vocational rehab...

Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq. has individually, and in cooperation with other law firms, obtained settlements and verdicts for his clients in excess of $1...

Bill Cummings practices with Rick at Friedman | Rubin. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he clerked for Justice Warr...

Dr. Arthur Croft coauthored the first textbook on whiplash, Whiplash Injuries: The Cervical Acceleration/Deceleration Syndrome. He has written or c...

Edward P. Capozzi is a plaintiff’s personal injury trial attorney in the State of New Jersey and a partner at Brach Eichler LLC. He is certified by...

David R. Bossart is a plaintiff's trial lawyer with over fifty years of experience in private practice. He is a nationally known trial consultant f...

Carl Bettinger has litigated hundreds of personal injury, medical malpractice and nursing home neglect claims. He holds the two largest personal in...

David Berardinelli was an attorney specializing in insurance law. He graduated from Santa Clara University Law School in 1974. After five years as ...

David Ball (Malekpour Ball Consulting) is the nation's most influential trial consultant. With partner Artemis Malekpour, he guides plaintiff's civ...

Cliff Atkinson is an acclaimed writer, popular keynote speaker, and independent consultant to leading attorneys and Fortune 500 companies. He desig...

Trial Guides is proud to have Rick Friedman as one of its authors. Rick built his reputation representing people and small businesses injured by l...

Lisa Blue, JD, PhD, is a practicing trial lawyer, psychologist, and the 2014-2015 president of the American Association for Justice. From 1980 to ...