You have spent years mastering your niche, craft, and your expertise.  As a testifying expert, take advantage of this training on how to use persuasive speech to explain complex and/or technical information so that the fact finder can understand the evidence and data while being convinced of your credibility, knowledge, and conclusions. 

You will learn practical strategies to deal with the following:    

• What does your nonverbal communication say about you? 
• Framing your testimony and keeping your cool;
• Deposition skills and “safe harbors”;
• Surviving prolonged silence, unfriendly manners, unrelated minutiae, and other intimidation tactics 

Agenda

1:30 PM-2:00 PM Pacific Time: 1/2 hour of networking & self introductions    

2:00 PM-3:00 PM Pacific Time: Speaker Presentation

Experts from all fields are invited. FEWA members pay only $30 for this course, which provides one point toward your CFLC Certification. Non-member guests are invited to attend for $60. 

Information presented at this event is suitable for all education levels, and no prerequisites are required prior to the presentation. 

About the speaker

Speaker: Nicole Goodwin, ESQ.

Nicole Goodwin is Co-Managing Shareholder of the Phoenix Office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP. Nicole is a problem solver whose practice emphasizes corporate governance disputes, financial services litigation, real estate litigation, post-acquisition disputes, health care litigation, and franchise litigation. She has represented public and private corporate clients in state and federal trial and appeals courts, as well as before administrative tribunals and arbitration venues. Nicole is a counselor and advisor on exposure and litigation alternatives for clients that range from Arizona-based businesses to large national clients.

Nicole has first chair experience litigating fiduciary duty claims involving directors, officers and shareholders of corporations, and members of limited liability companies. She has represented clients in matters resulting in obtaining preliminary and final injunctive relief.

Nicole also has substantial experience in creditors' rights litigation, including the representation of clients in contested receiverships, provisional remedy proceedings, fair market value hearings, and all manner of loan enforcement actions.

In addition, Nicole has advised clients concerning antitrust issues raised by private plaintiffs, the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general. A trained mediator who has served as a faculty member for the firm’s mediation training curriculum and mediated numerous matters as a Judge Pro Tempore, Nicole is also available to mediate select commercial matters.

This course has been approved for 1 CFLC credit.

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