Supporting Other Civil Rights Lawyers
If you’re also an attorney, we’re committed to supporting your litigation and helping you with your craft. We’ve mastered the fundamentals of effective advocacy—careful factual development; rigorous legal analysis; clear, persuasive writing; and compelling courtroom storytelling. We understand how cases are built, presented, and decided.
Our extensive experience is matched by our enthusiasm for this work. One of us is happiest immersed in complex legal research; the other thrives in the intensity of the courtroom. Together, our complementary strengths allow us to support litigators at every stage of a case, from early strategy through trial. We can help with research, motions practice, trial-preparation, and strategic decision-making.
We can offer our litigation support services from behind the scene, at counsel table, or through targeted, skills-based training or coaching of your trial teams.
Litigation Support Services
As your court date approaches, trial preparation can consume weeks or months and pull your attention away from other clients and responsibilities. Whether you just need a little support or a heavy-lift, we can help you stay focused, prepared, and confident for trial.
Motions & Briefing Support
When trial preparation competes with the need to research and draft pleadings, we can take the writing off your hands. We can produce clear, persuasive filings under tight deadlines, and where appropriate, we can also help with or handle oral arguments.
Trial Preparation & In-Court Support
With decades of courtroom experience, we can help trial teams develop cohesive strategies that integrate law, facts, and storytelling.
We can assist with:
- Trial strategy and case theory
- Order of proof
- Witness preparation
- Jury selection
- Direct and cross-examination
- Opening statements and closing arguments
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State And Local Criminal Civil Rights Prosecutions
State and local prosecutors are increasingly on the front lines of criminal civil rights enforcement. When your office confronts these cases, especially against federal agents, the legal, factual, and institutional challenges are enormous. We’re here to help you navigate those challenges.
With more than 50 years of combined experience, we can help you with:
- Analyzing uses of force and other potential official misconduct
- Assessing prosecutive potential and legal theories
- Advising on privilege issues (including on best practices for filter teams)
- Designing efficient and defensible investigative plans
- Planning and sequencing witness interviews
- Preparing direct- and cross-examinations
- Conducting your trial
Trial Support & In-Court Assistance
We can also provide comprehensive support in pending prosecutions. We can draft pleadings on short timelines, consult on trial strategy and case theory, and help prepare cases for presentation to a jury.
Our trial support can include such specialized guidance as:
- Order of proof considerations unique to official-misconduct cases
- Preparation of law enforcement corroborator witnesses
- Jury selection on polarizing issues
- Cross-examination of use-of-force witnesses and officer-defendants
When helpful, we can join your team at counsel table, offering real-time support grounded in decades of courtroom experience.
Federal Court & Specialized Issues
For state prosecutions against federal officers or agents, we can guide you through the procedural and strategic issues surrounding removal to federal court. We can also help you navigate the unfamiliar terrain of federal practice.
If your office includes newer trial lawyers, we can provide targeted, one-on-one or team-based coaching designed to strengthen courtroom skills and confidence while cases are underway.
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Tailored Trainings & Coaching
Drawing on decades of experience as civil rights litigators and educators, we bring energy and substance to every training we deliver. We are deeply committed to teaching—not just presenting—and to helping lawyers develop practical skills they can use immediately.
Our trainings can focus on specific trial skills, including:
- Opening statements
- Direct and cross-examination
- Re-direct examination
- Expert examinations
- Closing and rebuttal arguments
We can design multi-session trial advocacy programs for organizations seeking deeper skills development. And we can design one-on-one and small-group coaching focused on trial performance or legal writing.
For nonprofit organizations and advocacy groups, we provide custom trainings on a wide range of civil rights topics, designed to meet the needs of both lawyers and non-lawyers.
Individualized Coaching
In addition to group trainings, we offer individualized coaching for attorneys and trial teams. Our coaching is practical, direct, and tailored to the specific challenges of the client.
What Participants Say
Our programs consistently receive exceptional feedback for content and delivery. Recent participants have described our trainings as:
- “So good they transcend the normal training format and rise to the level of performance art.”
- “Truly the best training I’ve ever received.”
- “Phenomenal—clear, engaging, and deeply effective.”
- “One of the best presentations I have attended in my career.”
- “Riveting.”
- “This training should be required for every prosecutor in the country.”
(Additional representative feedback available upon request.)