Constance Miller Litigation Communication Services

A Range of Trial Consulting Services: Consulting, one-on-one coaching, classes, workshops, and client tailored in-house programs. For more information, contact Connie . Continuing Legal Education credits may be available for in-house training program participants. To see the current schedule of workshops and speaking engagements go to current schedule.

In Person Consulting
In most cases we will come to your office at a time that is convenient to you, using a conference room to work with you and your litigation team. We will use our own video equipment and will supplement our consultations with articles, exercises and additional tools to support your success. If you prefer more privacy than your work environment affords, we will arrange another meeting location, including our office in the nearby lower Queen Anne district of Seattle.

Training Programs We will design a Continuing Legal Education program for your firm, tailoring it to your attorneys' needs. Some of the program topics offered are:
•	Engaging Your Audiences - How to make that important connection with decision-makers
•	Emotional Intelligence - Understanding and using it to persuade
•	Story Telling - Making opening statements & other speeches accessible & memorable
•	Getting the Gold - Systematic interviewing techniques
•	The Hot Seat - Preparing witnesses to be the best they can be
•	Speaking Your Brand - How to easily communicate your firm's mission
•	The Nuts & Bolts of Making a Great Presentation : To prepare attorneys for all presentation audiences, including client groups, breakfast meetings, and juries. Covers engagement, audience analysis, structure, openings, closings, audience interaction, fielding questions, special presentations and logistics. Acting 101 for Litigators For attorneys who would like to add more capacity to engage and persuade their various audiences. By learning to stretch your expressiveness with actors' exercises, you can engage their jurors more easily, add variety and energy, and make the content, the message, more memorable. Result: You will be able to: • create openings & closings with more power and subtlety • make dull content more understandable and memorable

Consulting and Coaching by Phone
If you know you want and need consulting for your case or presentation, but time and/or distance prevent you from getting the in person assistance that will make the difference, call or email Connie and arrange for help by phone. We can cover most of the basics by phone and email, by sending articles and practice tips to you, and reviewing your case for problems and strengths. For that important presentation, we can help by assessing the strength of your structure and story, openings, closings, helping you think through the logistics and supporting you to give a top performance.

FOR ATTORNEYS: Litigation Communication Strategy
•	Examine your case through the eyes of a juror.
•	Brainstorm with an experienced mock trial facilitator, looking at the strengths and weaknesses of your case.
•	Choose the most compelling metaphors and themes.
•	Plan how to talk about your case most effectively with mediator, judge or jurors in voir dire, opening statement and closing argument.
Public Speaking Coaching
•	Learn persuasive presentations for mediation, the courtroom, meetings and new business development opportunities.
•	Format may be a multi-session training program or coaching for a specific presentation or case.
•	Everything from stage-fright prevention to polishing for maximum effect.
Witness Preparation Consulting
•	Win your case in deposition with strong, truthful witnesses.
•	Learn the skills to help your witnesses become clear, confident, and engaging.
•	We help prepare witnesses for deposition and trial by identifying and building upon witnesses' individual strengths and learning styles.
•	We teach them to focus on the issues and deal effectively with their anxieties.
Courtroom Advocacy Skills
•	Your effectiveness as an advocate depends on your ability to use your emotional intelligence to connect with your witnesses and jurors.
•	Practice telling your client's story with careful coaching using a variety of communication approaches to fully develop your unique style.
•	Seed your jury with your case perspective while building rapport with jurors - to understand, to remember, and then to argue your case for you in the jury room.
•	Learn how to use themes and metaphors, to develop powerful language structure, and to utilize the rule of primacy & recency.
•	Understand the optimal kinesic architecture of your case. Use the entire courtroom, witnesses, and evidence synergistically to create a powerful and memorable experience.
FOR JUDGES: Courtroom Demeanor Consulting: gain a clear understanding of the effectiveness of your communication style in the courtroom. We will:
•	Review videotapes of your work on the bench plus make live observations in session.
•	Develop a list of areas in which changes can be made for maximum clarity, perception of fairness, presence and efficiency.
•	Develop strategies for accomplishing your goals.
•	One-on-one format.
Public Speaking Coaching
•	Learn to give persuasive presentations in the courtroom, meetings and public education opportunities.
•	Format can be a multi-session individualized training program or coaching for a specific presentation.
FOR EXPERT WITNESSES: Continuing Education credits may be available for in-house training program participants.
Litigation Communication Consulting and Coaching
•	Help your attorney clients make the most of your important testimony increasing your value as an expert.
•	Learn to communicate fully and confidently with your lay audiences while focusing on the important issues in deposition, mediation and trial.
Public Speaking Coaching
•	Give persuasive presentations in mediation, the courtroom, meetings and new business development opportunities.
•	Our training covers the range of skill from stage-fright prevention to fine polishing for maximum effect.
•	Format may be a multi-session training program or coaching for a specific presentation or case.