DESCRIPTION
The Expressive Attorney: Dynamic Communication for Transactional and Trial Lawyers
Featured Presenter:
Rena Cook, Vocal Authority, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma
The Expressive Attorney: Dynamic Communication for Transactional and Trial lawyers is an in-depth training course for the attorney who wants to have more vocal power, clarity and expressivity in all legal transactions. Interactive, informative and fun – these exercises produce lasting results and can be applied immediately to most legal communications settings – trials depositions, presentations to prospective clients and mediations.
• Enhance gravitas and authenticity with clients
• Be more persuasive
• Feel more confident in depositions and mediations
• Up your litigation game with all-star acting techniques
• Be a more dynamic and compelling communicator
Confidence, expressivity, vocal gravitas, the ability to own a room are all skills that can be taught!
This two-hour session is divided into three sections:
• Tuning Your Instrument (elements of voice)
• Catching Their Interest (principals of expressivity)
• Capturing Their Hearts (acting techniques that drawn the audience in)
Participants delve deeply into various aspects of voice, including release of habitual tension, breath, resonance, articulation, inflection that communicates meaning, and using verb imagery to find authenticity and variety. Bring a copy of an opening, closing or speech that you would like to work on. Sample openings will be also be provided.
Disclaimer: All views or opinions expressed by any presenter during the course of this CLE is that of the presenter alone and not an opinion of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the employers, or affiliates of the presenters unless specifically stated. Additionally, any materials, including the legal research, are the product of the individual contributor, not the Oklahoma Bar Association. The Oklahoma Bar Association makes no warranty, express or implied, relating to the accuracy or content of these materials.