Personal Injury Juries: Overcoming Politics and Conspiracy Theories

Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm has provided research and strategic advice on several hundred cases across the country for the past 21 years, applying a doctorate in communication emphasizing the areas of legal persuasion and rhetoric. As a tenured Associate Professor of Communication Studies, he has taught courses including legal communication, argumentation, persuasion, and research methods. He has trained and consulted in 19 countries around the world and is Past President of the American Society of Trial Consultants.

Mr. Gray is a key member of the firm’s Complex Litigation, Pharmaceutical Products, and Toxic Torts & Products Liability practice groups where he represents multiple Global 500 chemical and drug corporations. Bringing a real-world sense to the legal issues and problems faced by these companies in a wide range of matters, Mr. Gray has an instinctive ability to unravel the complexities of mass tort litigation into simple, straightforward themes that effectively convey our clients’ stories to judges and juries. He is experienced with all facets of the litigation process. This experience includes coordinating company-wide electronic discovery document collection and production; evidentiary and dispositive motions practice; the preparation for and defense of depositions of corporate representatives, corporate fact witnesses, and expert witnesses; defending mediation; and trial. Mr. Gray has specialized in developing the company’s science-based defense strategy and has worked extensively with the expert witnesses on report preparation, deposition testimony, and trial testimony.

Ms. Williams is a partner at Goodell DeVries and a member of the firm's Appellate Practice Group. She represents clients across the firm's many practice groups in pre-trial and appellate matters. Ms. Williams brings 16 years of appellate experience at the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, where she served as Principal Counsel for Criminal Policy and, before that, Division Chief of the Criminal Appeals Division. She is one of the few private attorneys selected among many appellate judges in the inaugural class of Maryland's Cole-Davidson Appellate Inn of Court. In 2023, Ms. Williams was appointed by Governor Wes Moore to the Appellate Courts Judicial Nominating Commission.