The Top 14 Litigation Consulting Articles You Loved from Q1-2014

By: Kenneth J. Lopez, J.D. Fri, Apr 18, 2014 @ 11:00 AM

Trial Technicians, Litigation Graphics, Mock Trial, Litigation Consulting, E-Book, Jury Consultants, Expert Witness, PowerPoint, Witness Preparation

by Ken Lopez
Founder/CEO
A2L Consulting

Since we publish articles a few times per week, it's easy to miss some of the great content posted at A2L's Litigation Consulting Report blog. Also, with so much valuable content, we know it's hard to read it all. That's why we publish four quarterly best-of articles, an annual best-of article and a best-of article every time we publish an additional 100 articles. The list included here covers our very top articles of the first quarter of 2014, as measured by the number of times these articles were read.

The first quarter saw our highest readership ever with tens of thousands of visits to our litigation-focused blog. All told, 61% more people visited in the first quarter of 2014 than visited in 2013. That's quite an increase!

We have definitely noticed an increase in readership since being named one of the top 100 legal industry blogs and one of the top 10 litigation blogs by the American Bar Association at the end of 2013. We are approaching 4,300 subscribers who get notified of new articles as they are published, and invite you to subscribe to the Litigation Consulting Report for free here.

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14. 11 Problems with Mock Trials and How to Avoid Them

13. How To Emotionally Move Your Audience

12. Why Reading Your Litigation PowerPoint Slides Hurts Jurors

11. 10 Things Litigators Can Learn From Newscasters

10. 12 Ways to SUCCESSFULLY Combine Oral and Visual Presentations

9. FREE 250-Page Complex Civil Litigation E-Book

8. 16 Litigation Graphics Lessons for Mid-Sized Law Firms

7. 11 Traits of Great Courtroom Trial Technicians

6. The Top 30 Litigation Articles Out of Our First 300 Articles

5. Like It or Not: Likeability Counts for Credibility in the Courtroom

4. 2 Metrics Showing Litigation Shifting to Midsize Law Firms

3. Witness Preparation: The Most Important Part

2. 7 Things Expert Witnesses Should Never Say

1. 16 PowerPoint Litigation Graphics You Won't Believe Are PowerPoint

About Kenneth J. Lopez, J.D.

While attending the Delaware Law School in the early 1990s, Ken taught himself computer animation as a hobby. That hobby, combined with his law degree and a degree in economics from the University of Mary Washington, helped launch his career in litigation consulting.

In 1995, he founded his first company, A2L Consulting, where he served as its President/CEO for nearly 25 years. A2L provided litigation support services to all of the nation’s top law firms and their clients around the world. Often called upon when the dollars at stake are high, A2L’s services included helping to predict how judges and juries will react to a case (i.e., jury consulting and mock trials), the creation of sophisticated visual evidence used to persuade judges and juries (i.e., litigation graphics and 3D animation), and the deployment and use of state-of-the-art technology in the courtroom (i.e., hotseaters and trial technicians).

Ken launched LawProspecter in 2007, a first-of-its-kind software company that provided information about litigation and who was involved in it. In 2020, Ken launched OurHistoryMuseum, a crowdsourced history museum, which he continues to run.

Bestselling business author Dan Pink highlighted A2L in his book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, and Ken has been quoted by many news outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Inc., NBC News, Wired, the Washington Post, and the BBC.

Recently, the readers of LegalTimes voted A2L “best jury consultants” and “best trial consultants,” and readers of the National Law Journal voted A2L “Best Demonstrative Evidence provider” in the country. Many other publications have held similar votes and ranked A2L at the top of a key category. The American Bar Association named A2L’s blog, where Ken and his colleagues publish weekly, one of the top 100 blogs in the legal industry and one of the top 10 litigation blogs.

In 2013, Virginia’s Governor appointed Ken to a four-year term on the University of Mary Washington’s Board of Visitors. He has also served on the Dean’s National Advisory Board of Delaware Law School and various local and business boards and advisory groups.

In 2023 Ken launched Persuadius, a litigation consulting company that has picked up where A2L left off.

Despite an interesting and varied career, Ken still lists his top passion and proudest accomplishment as “father of triplet girls born in 2008.”

You can reach Ken Lopez at ken@persuadius.com

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