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OUR WORK

The Standard for How Your Lawyers Hold a Room

CLE Workshops, Group Trainings, Retreats, and Intensives in Advocacy, Presence & Persuasive Speech for Elite Law Firms

"You should teach this at ALL the law firms." — Head of Global Litigation, AmLaw 50 Law Firm

Vox Vera® partners with leading law firms to establish a firm-wide standard of advocacy, executive presence, and persuasive communication across their offices and practice groups. Through CLE-accredited workshops, retreats, and intensives — encompassing public speaking training, leadership presence, voice and movement skills, and negotiation programs — we help attorneys at AmLaw 200 firms, elite boutiques, government agencies, and in-house legal departments develop the physical advocacy and oral communication skills that drive client trust, courtroom effectiveness, better conflict resolution skills, and long-term professional advancement.


Our work integrates classical performance training, voice, linguistics, and persuasion science with firsthand BigLaw litigation and Fortune 50 executive experience — a grounded, embodied, peer-level approach to communication that goes beyond surface tips and tricks.

Developed through decades of experience in litigation, dealmaking, performance, and executive leadership, and taught at Stanford Law, Berkeley Law, and the University of Chicago Law School, this methodology equips high-achieving lawyers to think clearly under pressure, speak with authority, and show up with full human presence when it matters most. Firms engage us to establish a firm-wide standard of courtroom and leadership presence: how authority is embodied and transmitted in hearings, negotiations, client pitches, and the moments that define institutional credibility.

Our team of certified coaches delivers simultaneously across practice groups, offices, and engagements — ensuring consistency, discretion, and depth at the scale elite firms require.

Vox Vera accepts a limited number of institutional engagements each year. All programs can be:

  • Adapted for any program length or format

  • Tailored to practice group, firm culture, and attorney development level

  • Delivered remotely, hybrid, or in person

  • Combined or expanded for half-day, full-day, and multi-day workshops, intensives, masterclasses, and retreats

Request our Institutional Program Overview — or visit our Law Firms page for a fuller overview of how firms typically engage.

The programs below address the recurring institutional challenges in advocacy, presence, and persuasion that shape how your lawyers are perceived and how they perform when the stakes are real.

Public Speaking & Delivery Training for Lawyers & Legal Professionals

Master the art of persuasive legal communication. Our public speaking workshops teach attorneys how to deliver compelling arguments, embody confidence, and connect on a human, persuasive level with any audience—from courtroom advocacy, to client pitches, and high-stakes negotiations.

Workshop Titles Include:

  • Public Speaking Skills for Lawyers

  • Performance Skills for Lawyers

  • Science-Backed Strategies for Navigating Performance Anxiety

  • The Science of Persuasion through Speech

  • Human Skills for the AI Era™

  • Building Trust through Language & Presence

  • The Lawyer-Athlete: Physical Delivery Skills for Advocates

  • Public Speaking for Law Firm Administrators

  • The Performance Ladder: A Modern Framework for Oral Communication

Courtroom & Executive Presence Training for Lawyers

Presence is the ability to show up consistently with confidence, credibility, authority, and humanity in high-stakes moments. Our executive and courtroom presence workshops help lawyers develop the gravitas, poise, human connection, and leadership communication skills that courtroom and negotiation results, partnership and career advancement, client trust, and business development success.

Workshop Titles Include:

  • Executive Presence for Lawyers

  • Courtroom Presence for Litigators

  • Presence in Negotiation

  • Readiness

  • Seeing & Being Seen: Presence Skills for Inclusive Leadership

  • Showing Up as a Leader: Presence, Power & Authenticity

  • Building Trust through Language & Presence

  • Gravitas: Landing Your Message

  • The Presence Ladder: A Modern Framework for Executive Presence

  • Owning Your Expertise: Building Leadership Presence as a First-Year Partner

Voice & Language Coaching for Attorneys

Your voice is your primary instrument as an advocate. Drawing from opera, classical theatre, and voice science, our voice coaching workshops help lawyers develop vocal power, clarity, resonance, and stamina—essential skills for courtroom advocacy, client presentations, and leadership communication.

Workshop Titles Include:

  • The Lawyer's Voice: A User's Guide

  • Harnessing Vocal Power: Clarity, Volume & Resonance

  • Speaking with Gravitas: Voice & Delivery for Senior Leaders

  • Vocal Stamina & Endurance for Trial Lawyers

  • Public Speaking for English Language Learners

  • Negotiation Skills for English Language Learners

Litigation & Appellate Oral Advocacy Training

The courtroom is a stage, and every trial lawyer needs to be able to perform — not with slick melodrama, but as a grounded, present, and compelling advocate. Our courtroom presence workshops combine drama coaching, persuasion science, acting and movement techniques, linguistics, and real-world litigation experience to help trial attorneys connect with juries, hold attention, and deliver with conviction when everything is on the line.

Workshop Titles Include:

  • Mastering Courtroom Presence

  • The Stagecraft of Litigation

  • Speaking with Gravitas

  • Physicality & Movement for Litigators

  • Appellate Advocacy: Training for Presence & Agility

  • Handling Hot Benches with Confidence

  • Helping Witnesses Deliver

  • Distilling Your Case to Its Emotional Core

  • How to Connect with a Jury

Transactional Communication & Negotiation Skills

Great negotiators combine strategic preparation with authentic presence. Our negotiation workshops—informed by 15+ years of in-house Hollywood dealmaking experience at Warner Bros., NBCUniversal, and Amazon Studios—teach lawyers how to frame offers persuasively, navigate conflict, listen, and close with confidence.

Workshop Titles Include:

Workshop Titles Include:

  • Executive Presence for Dealmakers

  • Navigating Difficult Conversations

  • High Profile Dealmaking: Negotiation Tips from Hollywood

  • Anatomy of a Hollywood Talent Deal: An Interactive Negotiation Workshop

  • Storytelling in Negotiation

  • De-Escalating Conflict through Effective Communication

  • Getting to Yes, And!: Better Deals through Improvisation

  • Positioning Offers for Success

  • Using Conflict to Your Advantage

Firm Culture, Leadership, and Professional Development

Strong communication skills are the foundation of high-performing legal teams, and our team building workshops use interactive exercises, applied improvisation, and communication training to strengthen collaboration, trust, and belonging across practice groups and departments. Law firm leadership demands more than legal expertise—it requires the ability to inspire, communicate vision, and build culture. Our leadership communication workshops help partners, practice group leaders, and firm management communicate with authenticity and impact.

  • Summer Associate Team Building

  • Department & Firmwide Team Building

  • Leadership Communication for Law Firm Partners

  • Leading in the Age of AI: Communication Skills for the Future

  • From Studio Executive to Legal Advocate: Lessons in High-Stakes Communication

  • Executive Presence: Showing Up as a Leader

  • Seeing and Being Seen: Presence as a Tool for Belonging

  • Building Inclusive Teams

  • Meeting the Moment: Leading through Change

  • Courageous Storytelling: Truth, Power, and Persuasion

  • Navigating Mistakes When Failure Isn’t an Option

Applied Improvisation for Lawyers

Legal practice demands the ability to think on your feet, adapt to the unexpected, and stay present under pressure. Our applied improvisation workshops are uniquely grounded in both decades of high stakes law practice and extensive training across the major improvisation disciplines (including Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade, Impro Theatre, Studio ACT, Viola Spolin, and Second City). This rare intersection allows us to transcend the typical surface-level ice-breaker games to help lawyers build agility, creativity, and confident spontaneity and apply it to their day-to-day practice.

Workshop Titles Include:

  • Improvisation for Lawyers

  • Applied Improvisation for Paralegals

  • Applied Improvisation for Law Firm Administrators & Professionals

  • Getting to Yes, And!: Better Deals through Improvisation

  • Improvisation for Business Development

  • Thinking on Your Feet: Improvisation Skills for Advocates

  • Navigating Mistakes When Failure Isn't an Option

Acting, Drama, Linguistics, and On-Camera Training for Lawyers

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The world's best advocates have always understood that law is a physical performing art as much as a technical and intellectual skill. Our theatre- and performance-based workshops — taught by theatre arts experts with training at top conservatories and professional stage credits at LA Opera, the San Francisco Symphony, the Goodman Theatre, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Ensemble Shakespeare Company, and TV/Film — bring elite performance techniques to legal practice. In addition, whether handling press inquiries, recording thought leadership content, or appearing on podcasts, lawyers need to communicate with clarity and presence on camera. Our media training workshops prepare attorneys to deliver confident, quotable commentary that builds their professional brand.

  • Performance Anxiety: Tools from the Stage

  • On-Camera Skills for Lawyers

  • Podcast & Video Presence for Legal Thought Leaders

  • Virtual Presentation Skills for Remote Advocacy

  • From "Webi-snore" to "Webi-more!": Leading Engaging Webinars

  • The Law as Theatre: Performance Tips from Elite Actors

  • Acting Techniques for Attorneys

  • Drama Training for Trial Lawyers

  • Stage Presence for the Courtroom

  • Speak the Speech, I Pray You: Performance Lessons from Shakespeare

  • The Poetry of Lawyering: Packing a Punch with Words

  • AP English for Lawyers: Language, Rhetoric & Presence

  • The Lawyer-Performer: Dynamic Delivery Skills

International Attorneys & Multilingual Professionals

International attorneys and English language learners face unique challenges in U.S. legal practice. Our specialized workshops help globally trained lawyers develop comfort, clarity, and persuasive power in English-language advocacy.

  • Oral Communication Skills for International Attorneys

  • Public Speaking for International Attorneys

  • Negotiation Skills for International Attorneys

  • Accent & Pronunciation Coaching for Attorneys

Workshop Titles Include:

Don't Just Project Confidence. Embody It.

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