9 Articles You Probably Missed in the Last Year

By: Kenneth J. Lopez, J.D. Fri, May 2, 2014 @ 10:30 AM

Trial Consultants, Litigation Graphics, Jury Consulting, Litigation Consulting, Trial Technology, Jury Consultants, Articles

by Ken Lopez
Founder/CEO
A2L Consulting

When you publish articles a few times a week like we do at A2L's Litigation Consulting Report Blog, you notice some interesting trends. For example, we see that general topics like voir dire, PowerPoint and storytelling get very high readership numbers. Narrow topics likeMarkman hearings, venue-focused articles and mock bench trials get the fewest reads. That's not too surprising, right?

While the relationship between subject matter and readership makes sense, there are other factors that drive (or hamper) visits that do not as clearly correlate with a reader's interest. For example, list-oriented articles that start with a number get three times the average number of readers, articles published on Mondays will receive at least twice the average number of readers, a tweet by a legal industry celebrity can dramatically boost traffic and holidays just throw everything into chaos.

For these and other reasons like the weather and bad titles, I think some amazing articles get overlooked each year. So, about once a year, I try to highlight articles that you probably missed. Each of these articles had fewer than 500 visits, and our popular articles are normally read by thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of people.

Below are nine articles that I am betting that you missed out of nearly 150 articles published over the past year. Please do feel free to tweet and share on LinkedIn as so many of you do.

9. 12 Insider Tips for Choosing a Jury Consultant

8. 21 Reasons a Litigator Is Your Best Litigation Graphics Consultant

7. 11 Surprising Areas Where We Are Using Mock Exercises and Testing

6. Are You Smarter Than a Soap Opera Writer?

5. 5 Settlement Scenarios Where Litigation Graphics Create Leverage

4. 11 Problems with Mock Trials and How to Avoid Them

3. 11 Small Projects You Probably Don't Think Litigation Consultants Do

2. 7 Questions You Must Ask Your Mock Jury About Litigation Graphics

1. Why Trial Tech ≠ Litigation Graphics

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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 or 800.847.9330

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