Powerhouse Trial Attorney Randi McGinn to Speak on Police Shootings, Consumer Safety at Peter Chase Neumann Lecture on Civil Justice
Renowned trial attorney Randi McGinn will deliver the annual Peter Chase Neumann Lecture on Civil Justice at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
Her remarks are titled, “Using the Law to Transform Your Community: Making the World Safe from Dangerous Health Care, Defective Products and Police Shootings.” A cocktail reception will follow the lecture.
The Peter Chase Neumann Lecture on Civil Justice is part of Arizona Law's Civil Justice Initiative, which seeks to elevate the American civil justice system and train the next generation of great trial lawyers.
When: Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, 5-6 p.m.
Where: The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, 1201 E. Speedway Blvd., Room 164 (Ares Auditorium). Campus map: http://map.arizona.edu/
Who may attend: The event is free and open to the public. Please register to attend here.
Background: Randi McGinn is the senior partner in a five-woman, two-man law firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is known for her creativity in the courtroom and her use of demonstrative evidence to visualize opening, direct, cross-examination, and closing argument.
As her official bio notes, “She has destroyed adverse witnesses by leaving a pretentious Beverly Hills doctor standing in front of the jury covered with post-it notes and clutching a grapefruit to his chest, by grilling a government snitch until he threw up, and by exposing the fact that a world-renowned polygraph expert had been polygraphing his own sperm cells in the dead of night. In a particularly hard-won police shooting case, the local SWAT officers once put her face on their Christmas piñata and took turns whacking it with a big stick.”
McGinn is the vice president of the Inner Circle of Advocates. She is double-listed in criminal and civil litigation in Best Lawyers in America, and is a fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. She is a former governor of the American Association for Justice, a past president of the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association, and a former board member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. McGinn has taught trial practice for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the National Criminal Defense College, and has been an adjunct professor for the University of New Mexico.
Event Contact: Marissa White, alumni affairs coordinator, UA James E. Rogers College of Law, mwhite@email.arizona.edu, 520-621-8430.