ACT of Communication

One week until Sierra Madre's first-ever virtual live actor panel featuring our very own actors Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James! The duo are best-known to Sierra Madre Playhouse audiences for their appearances in its 2018 hit production of The Gin Game (which later transferred to the Theatricum Botanicum in 2019, where the pair have also appeared in multiple productions). This Sunday at 3 pm! To RSVP, visit www.liveactorpanel.com

Check out our latest article in the ADVOCATE. Pandemic Communication A Round Table Discussion With Stage Actors On The Challenges In Communicating With Jurors During A Trial In The Live Covid Courtroom http://actofcommunication.com/legal-industry-resources-arti... #advocate #lawyers #lawyering #Legal #jurytrials

Happy New Year Everyone! We hope 2021 turns out to be a truly amazing year for you and your loved ones. We've never meant this more. Stay safe friends. Katherine, Alan, and Andrew www.actofcommunication.com... #lawyer #lawyering #law #lawstudent #katherinejames #HarvestingWitnessesStories #abajournal #dailyjournal #lawtextbook #CLE

Music, Laughter, Harmony... Happy Holidays We joyously greet the return of the sun and with it the light of justice. Gut Khanike, God Jul, Joyous Muharram, Happy Kwanza, Blessed Solstice, and Wondrous New Year.... Please stay safe everyone! Katherine, Alan, Andrew www.ActofCommunication.com

To all our friends, clients, and colleagues who celebrate, we wish you a very Happy and Safe Hanukkah. Katherine and Alan www.actofcommunication.com... #lawyer #lawyering #law #lawstudent #katherinejames #HarvestingWitnessesStories #abajournal #dailyjournal #lawtextbook

From the team at ACT of Communication, we would like to express our thanks for having the opportunity to work with you in 2020. We wish you a Happy Healthy Sane Thanksgiving Holiday. Katherine and Alan... www.actofcommunication.com

Our very own Alan Blumenfeld!

With insight gained from a background in theatre and from working closely with lawyers and witnesses, Katherine James has developed a method of finding and communicating the stories that convey what she calls human damages. Injured clients may never be able to regain the life they once hadthe first-best life in the world, as one client put itbut maximizing these noneconomic damages is the only way to get them the second-best life in the world. In this book, James shows how ...to get even the most difficult witness to share the stories that matter and that convey the human damages at the heart of the case. What is the legal industry saying about Katherine's new book? http://harvestingwitnessesstories.com/testimonials.html #lawyer #lawyering #law #lawstudent #katherinejames #HarvestingWitnessesStories #abajournal #dailyjournal #lawtextbook

Our Katherine James is interviewed by The #ABA Journal in this terrific podcast. "Having a hard time connecting with your witness? Try these tips." Interview by Lee Rawles. Learn more about Katherine's new book at http://www.harvestingwitnessesstories.com/ https://www.abajournal.com/books/article/podcast-episode-134... #lawyer #lawyering #law #lawstudent #katherinejames #HarvestingWitnessesStories #abajournal

Join Us - American Society of Trial Consultants - ASTC Virtual Conference The Seasoned Consultant AMA (Ask Me Anything) June 6, 2020... 3:15 4:00pm CST Panelists: Jeff Frederick, Dan Wolfe, Katherine James, and Jason Barnes, Moderated by: Shelley Spieker This panel of consultants with decades-long consulting experience will address your burning questions in a facilitated discussion. Submit questions in advance. Engage in live conversation. Get answers, insights, and stories told from the perspective of highly experienced practitioners with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and work experience from developing visuals to jury selection to witness prep and beyond. Register For FREE here -- shorturl.at/ciyBL #ASTC #Lawyers #Attorney #TrialConsulting #Courts #Litigation

Are you registered for Virtual Annual Convention? If not, register at www.arktla.org/virtual because you don't want to miss this speaker! SpeakerSpotlight: A tr...ial consultant who specializes in live communication skills based in the discipline of theater, Katherine James has been working to make attorneys and witnesses better courtroom communicators since 1977. Over 40,000 attorneys have taken ACT of Communication workshops that she developed with co-founder Alan Blumenfeld. She has helped take over 1,500 cases to trial and helped prepare literally thousands of witnesses, including experts of every stripe. She coaches witnesses and their lawyers to reach, persuade and activate jurors. She has taught for AAJ, ABTL, ABA, NITA, DRI, CICA as well as many private law firms and bar associations. Over 40,000 lawyers have taken her workshops. Over the past 15 years more have purchased her Online/DVD series What Can Lawyers Learn from Actors?. She has just released another Online CLE How To Make Your Witness A STAR encapsulating her unique witness preparation system. She has also developed GoodLawyer/BadLawyer Hats for attorneys to use in witness preparation. She has been widely published and her articles can be read in the Knowledge Tank on the ACT of Communication website. She and her co-founder and husband, Alan Blumenfeld, are proud members of The American Society of Trial Consultants. She is an active theatre artist who performs and directs regularly and is writing a new musical based on a plaintiff’s case she worked on: Headcase. She holds a BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MFA from The American Conservatory See more

Virtual Performance Lessons For Lawyers From The Kansas Supreme Court ZOOM of April 11, 2020 By Katherine James, Founder, ACT of Communication There are many lessons to be learned by all lawyers from the Kansas Supreme Court Hearing of April 11, 2020.... I want to share with you the insights that I gleaned regarding some basic performance lessons for lawyers who try cases in this brave new world of virtual appearances. Read Full Article Here -- http://actofcommunication.com/articles/041620.html More About Virtual Witness Preparation -- http://actofcommunication.com/witness-preparation-via-video

For all our friends in Theater as well as the Legal Industry.

This is what we mean when we say we are working actors, writers, and producers. Here's a trailer for a film Alan was in. Coming out soon. Enjoy, Stay healthy safe and well. #AlanBlumenfeld #1BRMovie #WhatCanLawyersLearnFromActors #ActofCommunication https://youtu.be/IGzb01GrsxQ

Introducing Andrew Caple-Shaw, our new partner. As ACT of Communication enters it’s 43rd year of working with attorneys and their witnesses to make them more effective in and out of court, we are pleased to announce and introduce our new partner, Andrew Caple-Shaw. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Andrew expands our business in so many exceptional ways. Opening up our geographic reach, expanding our infrastructure, and bringing the expertise of a licensed and practicing attorn...ey to our company. Andrew Caple-Shaw is a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants and a member of The American Association for Justice. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Occidental College and former Rhodes Scholar Finalist. Andrew became a licensed attorney in the state of Tennessee after completing law school in less than two years, during which time he was a National Champion trial advocate, working actor, and elected leader of the television and film performers union, SAG-AFTRA. He is currently the Vice President of SAG-AFTRA Nashville and has held numerous national and local offices with the organization over the last two decades. In 2012 he became the head of the mock trial program at the newly established Belmont College of Law in Nashville, where he applied his acting-based approach to trial skills teaching, which he developed around Sanford Meisner’s principles of emotional listening. Under his leadership Belmont’s program rose to become one of the top ten in the nation according to American Association of Justice Rankings, all prior to the school even being accredited by the ABA. His first two graduating 3L classes went totally undefeated in their 7-state region in their respective years and lost at the national level only to the nation’s top trial advocacy specialization school. As his advocacy teaching reputation grew, Andrew joined the ACT team and his been working with them for the past several years teaching and training law students, lawyers and their witnesses. Andrew has conducted sessions with law firms, trial colleges and associations of attorneys including: New Jersey Association for Justice, Mississippi Trial Lawyers and the Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association As a professional actor for over 28 years, Andrew started out as a regional and touring theater performer before later transitioning into film and television. He has appeared on television shows such as NCIS and THE WEST WING, worked with Academy Award winning actors and directors, and was admitted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in his early 20s. Andrew is trained in a variety of classical and contemporary acting techniques ranging from Shakespeare to more advanced method approaches. Katherine James and Alan Blumenfeld ACT of Communication www.ActofCommunication.com

News from one of our home theatres. https://abc7.com/5899734/

Happy New Year everyone! We hope 2020 turns out to be your best year yet. Wishing you much love, good health, fortune, and success.

Music, Laughter, Harmony...HAPPY HOLIDAYS! ~ ActofCommunication.com