Great Legal Storytellers
Our Storytellers
Held annually, the Trial Advocacy Program brings to FIU Law a nationally-recognized trial lawyer to engage our students in a presentation on the art, science, and importance of great legal storytelling. Inspired by Cicero, the Great Legal Storyteller, our famed trial-lawyer-guests spend the afternoon with our students, first in our ceremonial courtroom for their main presentation, and then, in our small courtroom, where they conduct a private trial advocacy workshop provided specially for our Trial Team and Trial Advocacy students.
| Storyteller | Brief Biography | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Monique Pressley | Television analyst and commentator, and former trial counsel for Bill Cosby |
February 2, 2017 |
| Benjamin Crump | Former President of the National Bar Association and counsel for Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Martin Lee Anderson families, and the Oklahoma City police rape victims. |
March 17, 2016 |
| Willie E. Gary | Willie E. Gary, our Billion Dollar Storyteller, is known in legal circles far and wide as “The Giant Killer” for taking down some of America’s best-known corporations. On behalf of clients he has won some of America’s largest jury verdicts and settlements, including $23.6 billion against R.J. Reynolds |
February 5, 2015 |
| Mark O’Mara | Best known for his defense of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin trial, MARK M. O’MARA, of the O’Mara Law Group in Orlando, takes pride in “helping good people through difficult Situations. |
February 6, 2014 |
| Tom Mesereau | Best known for his defense and acquittal of the King of Pop, MICHAELJACKSON, in the most watched trial in legal history, TOM MESEREAU, a partner with Mesereau & Yu, LLP , in Los Angeles, specializes in the defense of high stakes criminal, civil, and administrative cases. |
February 7, 2013 |
| Roy Black | February 2, 2012 | |
| Fred D. Gray |
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Trial Advocacy Program
- 11200 SW 8 Street, RDB 1010 Miami, FL 33199
- 305.348.8095
- Trial Advocacy Directory