Resources for Professional Development

Speak Well as You Think on Your Feet
Private Coaching for Public Speaking

• Appropriate practice areas: Litigation or transactional, or mix of both.
• Experience level: Senior partners to junior associates.
• Advanced preparation required: 15 minutes.
• Total time commitment per attorney: two hours

Program structure:

60-minute lecture followed by 45-minute individual sessions; more attorneys can attend the lecture who do not receive individual coaching.

Number of participants:

Day 1 with lecture = eight individual sessions
Day 2, 3, + = twelve individual sessions

Rather than a live opening lecture, participants can watch a video online at their convenience, allowing for twelve individual sessions on Day 1.

The Articulate Advocate®:
Become More Fluent on Your Feet in Two Days

• Appropriate practice area: litigation, trials, motions, appellate.
• Appropriate experience level: Senior partners to mid-level associates.
• Advanced preparation required: none.
• Total time commitment per attorney: two days.
• Number of participants: ten maximum.

Program structure:

Two intense days of short lectures and many short presentations recorded on video and constrctively critiqued by the group.

The Articulate Attorney®:
Become More Fluent on Your Feet

• Appropriate practice area: transactional and corporate.
• Appropriate experience level: Senior partners to mid-level associates.
• Number of participants: ten maximum.
• Advanced preparation required: none.
• Total time commitment per attorney: two days.

Program structure:

Two intense days of short lectures and many short presentations recorded on video and constructively critiqued by the group.

In-house Trial Advocacy Programs

Bring a new dimension to your law firm trial advocacy program and add a courtroom communication skills focus for your associates. An hour-long lecture/demonstration at the beginning of the program is followed by individual video review with each participant.

Law Firm Retreat Speaker

Separately or together, Marsha Hunter and/or Brian K. Johnson can tailor a presentation to fit your group and schedule, from a sixty-minute learn-by-listening presentation, to a half day of interactive, on-your-feet group participation.

Keynote Address

If your law firm needs a keynote speaker, one of us can grab and hold your group’s attention and earn your program the kind of enthusiastic audience evaluations your committee envisions.

Women Attorneys

The women in your firm need programming that speaks directly to their specific needs and concerns about commanding attention in a room full of men. Marsha Hunter created Confident, Assertive, Attentive: How to Find Your Public Voice especially for your audience.

Our Teaching Videos

Give the attorneys at your law firm ongoing access to our communication training. These videos can be watched precisely when they are needed most—right before a presentation. As a client, you will receive a username and password to distribute to the lawyers at your firm, allowing for 24/7 access to “just-in-time” communication help.

Online Skype Coaching

This premium service is available for the attorney in your firm who needs immediate help with their communication skills, or suddenly discovers that he or she needs coaching for an imminent presentation. Using Skype, your lawyers can make immediate improvements to their presentations as they stand in their office or conference room. This is especially effective for attorneys who wish to polish speaking skills over several months of one-on-one work.

Law School Career Counselors– Special Offer

When you require your students to use our book The Articulate Attorney as course material, we give them free access to the teaching videos on this website. The videos include an hour-long lecture on communication skills. It’s the next best thing to having us come to your law school and work with your students. Require the book; get the videos free.