by Ken Lopez
Founder/CEO
A2L Consulting

There are many annual surveys that help rank law firms, specialty legal training programs and legal vendors and consultants. The annual Best of The National Law Journal is the crown jewel of these surveys.

A2L Consulting is honored to have been nominated and voted best litigation graphics provider and best jury consultants in this and other polls many times before. By voting in such surveys, I believe we make our industry better by acknowledging those who contribute to it the most.

While I would certainly be thrilled, honored, and grateful it if you would vote for A2L on questions #58 and #61 in the categories of Best Demonstrative Evidence Provider and Best Jury Consultants, I think simply voting is very valuable for all of us. Here is a link to the survey that is only open for a little bit more time. Note, not all questions have to be answered, but you do have to click the "Done" button at the end. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2015BestofNLJ

These ALM polls are quite credible since they are reader-driven and since gmail and other free email services are usually excluded from voting. Thus, you get very good insight from your peers regarding who is the best of the best.

Just a couple of months ago, A2L was voted #1 or #2 in all three of our primary service categories - jury consulting, litigation graphics consulting and courtroom technology/hot seat consulting - by the readers of LegalTimes, a sister publication of the NLJ.

Categories being voted on this year are quite diverse and include not only those areas where A2L works but also other areas like crisis management, lawyer business development coaches, litigation valuation, cloud-based practice management, ADR providers and more.

On the national stage of big ticket trials, we only routinely bump into our competitors FTI Consulting, TrialGraphix (recently sold again and collapsed into RLM) and DecisionQuest. I'm glad to see these good firms are nominated along with a host of others. I have to confess that despite being in the industry for 20 years, I've not heard of many of the others, but I do wish everyone good luck.

A2L Consulting is nominated in 5 categories this year - vote now!:

• Best Jury Consultants (#58)
• Best Demonstrative Evidence Provider (#61)
• Best Trial Technology "Hot Seat" Provider (#62)
• Best Intellectual Property Consultants (#15)
• Best End to End Litigation Consultants (#11)

I'm really focused on winning in the jury consulting and demonstrative evidence categories as these are the most important categories to our customers. Here is what the questions #58 and #61 look like (click the image to go to the survey now). The whole survey should take no more than 10 minutes.

Thanks for voting everyone. It makes the entire legal industry better in the process.