A CASE FOR ON TRIAL ASSOCIATES, INC.

ON TRIAL Associates, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based company, is a full service trial consulting firm which specializes in witness preparation and training high-level professionals in presentation and communication skills through basic acting techniques.

For over twenty years, ON TRIAL has been preparing witnesses to testify, coaching lawyers on courtroom performances, teaching business people personal presentation skills, and offering other, related consulting services, such as: focus groups and mock trial research, post verdict jury surveys, media training and corporate communications, and assisting lawyers to develop courtroom strategies. ON TRIAL also supplies skilled actors to read deposition transcripts at trials, mock trials and training sessions.

ON TRIAL cuts the cost of litigation by helping companies and law firms achieve favorable settlements and better results at trial. After working with ON TRIAL, our clients have had cases dropped after deposition and verdicts rendered in cases with million dollar exposures.

ON TRIAL knows that the most powerful performance is credible, committed, and a little larger than life. Whether on stage, in the courtroom, or in the boardroom, you must communicate emotions as well as facts.

ON TRIAL has developed techniques that enable our clients to consistently accomplish this. What we do is very different from the old-fashioned method of teaching personal presentation skills - the minefield of rules and regulations on how to stand, walk, talk, dress and gesture.

Our approach is hands on. We don’t spend a lot of time talking at you or fitting you into a mold. Our clients are always surprised at how hard they have to work, how satisfying it is, and how dramatic the difference is in their performance.

We do this by:

• Evaluating a case’s strengths and weaknesses, coaching lawyers, and preparing critical witnesses.
• Focusing on individual strengths to help our clients feel comfortable with who they are and what they have to say.
• Minimizing weaknesses, so they no longer have the power to attract attention.
• Teaching our clients to express their experiences and information in ways that are honest, convincing, and compelling.
• Observing our clients’ behavior and then enhancing what is appealing and adjusting what is distracting.
• Offering our clients skills that they can use effectively again and again.