Top 10 Trial Lawyer-Focused Articles of 2019

By: Kenneth J. Lopez, J.D. Thu, Dec 5, 2019 @ 03:06 PM

Trial Technicians, Trial Presentation, Jury Consulting, Mock Trial, Demonstrative Evidence, Trial Technology, Jury Consultants, Trial Preparation, Storytelling, Persuasive Graphics, Visual Persuasion, Opening, Persuasion, Visual Storytelling

Every year hundreds of thousands of people visit A2L's website and read litigation-focused articles on our blog. We have published more than 600 articles there since 2011, and the ABA and others have named it one of the top litigation blogs.

Periodically we list articles that have been deemed our very best by you, our readers, based on readership. As long-time readers of The Litigation Consulting Report blog know, our articles typically focus on topics like:

Using storytelling as a persuasion tool;
Combining psychology and litigation graphics to influence decision-making;
Maximizing results during voir dire and mock trials; and
Utilizing trial technicians so that litigators can focus on connecting with the jurors and judges.

Looking at A2L's top 10 articles from 2019, these topics are indeed covered, but it’s interesting to watch the trends in the most-read articles. Storytelling continues to be a very popular topic, but as you can see from the list below, so also are subjects like litigation graphics and jury consulting.

Below are the top 10 articles A2L Consulting published during 2019. I encourage you to share this list with friends and on social media. Links to post to Twitter and LinkedIn in just two clicks are included:

1. One Demonstrative Exhibit, One Concept

2. Ten Ways to Maximize Persuasive Courtroom Storytelling (Part One)

3. 5 Valuable Lessons From Some Horrible Infographics

4. The Border Wall Funding Dispute Could Be Won with Pictures

5. 10 Timely Tips For Trial Preparation

6. The Top 80 Articles From The Past 8 Years

7. 10 Ways to Maximize Persuasive Courtroom Storytelling (Part 2)

8. Top 10 Articles About Opening Statements

9. A Useful Directory of Federal Courtroom Technology

10. 3 Critical Mock Trial Clopening Litigation Graphics Best Practices

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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