avg_rating: 4.06
name: Marsha Hunter
about: Legal communication coach Marsha Hunter teaches persuasion for trial lawyers and public speaking for corporate attorneys. She works exclusively with lawyers. Her specialty is human factors—the science of human performance in high-stakes environments. Hunter's expertise in cognition and communication focuses on how people think, speak, feel, and act in dynamic situations. Her teaching is both technical and practical, drawing on techniques from sports psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science.Three times each year, Hunter is the program director for The Articulate Advocate: Becoming More Fluent on Your Feet, a two-day intensive courtroom communication skills program, at NITA's National Education Center in Boulder, Colorado. Ms. Hunter is Legal communication coach Marsha Hunter teaches persuasion for trial lawyers and public speaking for corporate attorneys. She works exclusively with lawyers. Her specialty is human factors—the science of human performance in high-stakes environments. Hunter's expertise in cognition and communication focuses on how people think, speak, feel, and act in dynamic situations. Her teaching is both technical and practical, drawing on techniques from sports psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science.Three times each year, Hunter is the program director for The Articulate Advocate: Becoming More Fluent on Your Feet, a two-day intensive courtroom communication skills program, at NITA's National Education Center in Boulder, Colorado. Ms. Hunter is the communication specialist for NITA's collaborative programs with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Violence Against Women, and teaches at three regional trial skills programs annually for NITA. She trains at the Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. She has served on preparation teams for lawyers appearing in multiple cases before the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, and taught advocacy programs for the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Law Society of Northern Ireland, and the Tasmanian Law Society. Her in-house clients include firms that occupy the top 10, 50, and 100 in annual lists, and half of the Wall Street Journal's "fearsome foursome" of litigation. Hunter has published articles in many legal publications, including the American Bar Association Section of Litigation's The Woman Advocate and the Texas Bar Journal. Johnson and Hunter are co-authors of The Articulate Advocate: New Techniques of Persuasion for Trial Lawyers (Crown King Books, 2009), a 2010 Silver Medal winner in the Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association, and The Articulate Attorney: Public Speaking for Lawyers (Crown King Books, 2010, 2013), and The Articulate Witness: An Illustrated Guide to Testifying Confidently Under Oath. ...more