Trial Advocacy Consulting & Training, LLC (“TACT”) consults and trains attorneys to optimize their trial advocacy skills and gain winning results. TACT also provides pre-trial and trial services like courtroom technology training and a hot seat operator to help any lawyer succeed. A TACT lawyer is smart, strong and successful.

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ABOUT US

At TACT, we don’t just consult and deliver training, we form relationships. Our insights go beyond skill-based approaches and ultimately provide tools that will change the way you think about advocacy and improve your trial advocacy skills.

AREAS OF ADVOCACY SKILLS & TRAINING

AREAS OF ADVOCACY SKILLS & TRAINING

Theme and Theory

Create the most effective theme and theory in order to persuade the factfinder.

Depositions

The best way to formulate questions for optimal fact finding.

Technology & Digital Evidence

Utilize cutting-edge technology in the digital age to persuasively present your case.

Expert Witnesses

Skillfully prepare and question an expert witness and combat the opposing side’s expert testimony.

Opening Statements & Closing Arguments

Capture the factfinder’s attention and create a cohesive case.

Evidentiary Foundations & Objections

Make and respond to objections throughout litigation and learn the proper and appropriate way to introduce physical, documentary and digital evidence.

Pre-Trial Motions & Hearings

Strategically attack evidentiary issues to win your case.

Direct & Cross Examinations

Perform smooth, quality examinations of witnesses.

Clients are saying…

“I’ve worked closely with the TACT Director for 15 years. She has an uncanny ability to review and prepare any type of case, with a particularly impressive emphasis on identifying and winning evidentiary issues.”

STEVEN F. FAIRLIE, FOUNDING PARTNER
Fairlie & Lippy

“I have had the honor and privilege of working with TACT’s Director for the past decade at the American University Washington College of Law. Her students flock to her classes and admiringly rave about her legal acumen, teaching style and contagious enthusiasm.”

MICHAEL J. ALGEO
Judge, Circuit Court for Montgomery County MD (Retired) and Special Counsel to the State’s Attorney of Montgomery County, Maryland

“TACT trained me how to be the most persuasive advocate on behalf of all my clients by teaching me how to view a case through the lens of a juror.”

ANNIE. E. BERRY, PUBLIC DEFENDER,
Nashville Tennessee