Haytham Faraj

Haytham Faraj

Advanced skills and techniques to make your story the only story the jury remembers.

In recent years, in no small part to programs like Trial Lawyer University and other excellent trial skills programs like the Gerry Spence Method, trial lawyers have come to embrace the crucial importance of storytelling in trial. Lawyers are effectively structuring their facts, identifying the protagonist and antagonist. Understanding the importance of having a villain and properly sequencing the case so the jury experiences the tension and the emotional highs and lows of a good story.

A good defense presentation will also present a compelling story. So how to insure the plaintiff’s presentation is the more memorable story? Neuroscience has definitively established the importance of the visual on memory recall. This presentation will explore advanced techniques and tools that are available to every trial lawyer that can bring the courtroom to life, from voir dire to closing. Participants will be taught skills to bring action into the courtroom and to put those tools into action during the presentation.

Haytham Faraj

As trial lawyers continuously evolve jury selection skills, they reach a point of competence where they can efficiently present the issues that have been identified as potential dangers in a case. Whether the issue is a preexisting condition, surveillance videos, minor body damage on a vehicle or a felony conviction, or a host of other issues that plaintiffs’ lawyers have to grapple with before trial.

During this presentation, we will discuss and work on identifying those issues that may seem to be critical to selecting a fair jury, but often also result in identifying and ultimately eliminating jurors that are favorable for the plaintiff. Participants will learn how to stop identifying jurors for the defense to eliminate while.

We will show you how to conduct focus groups prepare questionnaires, and process information to develop the appropriate voir dire.

Haytham Faraj

The workshop will put into practice the voir dire skills discussed in the presentation which will include:

1. Empowering the jury to want to do justice

2. Avoiding attractive topics that appear to be important but which result in identifying pro plaintiff jurors and excusal by the defense

3. Avoiding profiling and working with jurors who may not seem favorable but who possess other qualities that help in achieving a plaintiff’s verdict.