Storytelling for Trial Lawyers

How To Effectively Tell Your Client's Story - IN PERSON

We tell our client’s story every day. From the demand letter to closing argument, storytelling skills are the heart of effective trial lawyers. Bring one of your active cases, and join us for an interactive CLE where you will capture the essence of your client’s story and how to best speak your client’s truth.

 Part lecture and part guided workshop, we will work together to discover our clients' stories and learn how to connect with our audiences. Professional storyteller, poet, and artist, Dasan Ahaunu, will train us on the elements of a good story. Attorney by day, comedian by night, Rod Allison, will show us how to win over the audience. We'll also hear from lawyers across civil practice areas about how to meet your clients where they are and the do's and don'ts of good storytelling.

Registration includes seminar materials (in electronic format) and 6.0 CLE hours.

Please note you are registering to attend in person at NCAJ Headquarters located at 701 Corporate Center Dr, Ste 450 Raleigh.

This seminar Open to NCAJ Members Only

TOPICS & SPEAKERS

8:00 a.m. | Registration 

8:55 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks by Program Chairs

• Helen Baddour, Johnson & Groninger, PLLC, Charlotte
• Drew Culler, Johnson & Groninger, PLLC, Durham 

9:00 a.m. | Workshop 1: Explore Core Values and Life Reel of Your Client

• Helen Baddour, Johnson & Groninger, PLLC, Charlotte
• Drew Culler, Johnson & Groninger, PLLC, Durham 

9:45 a.m. | Knowing Your Audience, When You've Lost Them and When You've Won Them 

• Rod Allison, the "Attorney by Day, comedian by "Night Entertainer", The Allison Office, Creedmoor 

10:45 a.m. | Break 

11:00 a.m. | Storytelling for Trial Lawyers: Elements of a Good Story

• Dasan Ahaunu, Durham

Dasan Ahaunu, public speaker, organizer, curator, educator, poet, spoken word artist, songwriter, emcee and loyal Hip Hop head will teach storytelling skills in the context of telling your client's story to the jury. 

11:45 a.m. | Workshop 2: Break Sessions - Forming Your Client's Story

• Dasan Ahaunu 
  • bring your case and get input on how to form the client's story 

12:30 p.m. | Lunch

1:00 p.m. | Workshop 3: Present Client Stories

Volunteers will have time to present client stories for peer feedback 

2:30 p.m. | Break 

2:45 p.m. | Panel Discussion : Meeting Your Clients Where They Are

• Santiago Arroba, Whitley Law Firm, Raleigh 
• John Chilson, Comerford, Chilson & Moser, LLP, Winston-Salem 
• Lauren Newton, Tin, Fulton, Walker & Owen, PLLC, Charlotte

4:00 p.m. | Adjourn 

SEMINAR MATERIALS

All of our seminar materials are PAPERLESS! Please be on the lookout for an email 72 hours prior to the seminar that includes the seminar materials to download and print.

NCAJ Headquarters

701 Corporate Center Dr, Ste 450

Raleigh, NC 27607

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Cancellations received one week prior to the seminar date are refunded less a $35 service charge. Refunds cannot be given after this date. Substitutions are welcomed and may be made until the date of the seminar. For registrants who wish to transfer their registration to another NCAJ seminar, transfer requests received by 12:00 noon the third working day prior to the seminar are subject to a $50 transfer fee. Transfer requests received after this time are subject to a $110 transfer fee. Registrations may be transferred once and only to (one day) seminars scheduled through June 30, 2023.