Persuasive Advocacy
Be the voice that everyone listens to.
This training opens the heart, cultivates empathy, improves access to facts, agility, and corrects poor vocal habits. We inform our delivery with authentic intentions and reduce fear-based, performative, self-conscious stylizing. This creates vocal nuances and gestures that convey trust, and convey a compelling sense of right and wrong to jurors.
You’ll learn to:
Build Technique
- Improve tone, range, pacing, and variety
- Develop organic gestures
- Avoid vocal burnout
Grow Authentic Style and Master Emotion
- Deepen your capacity for empathy
- Utilize the power of vulnerability
- Speak from the core desire for justice
- Frame your case from shared values
Gain Confidence
- Develop agility in the courtroom
- Improve your access to facts
- Remain aligned with your core values
“We can work harder at what we already know how to do—read, study, mimic and adapt the techniques of others. And then, there is the next level. Claude Stein sidesteps reason and helps lawyers get to the truth of who they are. Connecting with jurors and judges becomes easier—even fun. He clears the obstacles, allowing the voice of a powerful advocate to be heard. I have watched Claude help scores of lawyers (including me) get to their next level.”
-Rick Friedman
Past President:
The Inner Circle of Advocates
Author: “The Way of the Trial Lawyer: Beyond Technique”
“Rules of the Road”, “Polarizing the Case”
“Claude creates group experiences that generate high levels of trust. I have seen leaders experience deep transformation through his work. ”
-Matthias Birk
Global Head of Leadership Development
White & Case
“Claude helps you to be your authentic self and to show up with all the different pieces of who you are so that you can feel comfortable, and people can get to know you. He knows how to get underneath what’s on the surface and helps you to share your true feelings.”
-Louise Lippman
Psychodramatist, LCSW-R, TEP, CGP
Past President:American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama
Faculty, The Trial Lawyers College
“Claude Stein is uniquely intuitive and thoughtful. His recommendations help lawyers get inside themselves, bringing forth the powerful and persuasive heart of their messages.”
-Mark Mandell
Past President:
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
The American Association for Justice
Author: “Case Framing”, “Advanced Case Framing”
“Claude’s approach is kind and effective in bringing forth greater awareness to the voice and cultivates the ability to be more authentic and inspiring in a way that can engage an audience.”
-Sean Brown
Super Lawyer
Ethics Committee, Colorado Bar Association
Faculty, The Trial Lawyers College
“I am constantly faced with the challenge of artfully and sincerely expressing my ideas and causes. Over the years I discovered that unless I tap into my inner voice with confidence and conviction, I can never be fully effective. Claude Stein has worked with me on several occasions to help me express my most intimate inner thoughts and feelings, and each time Claude has shown his gift of leading me to my inner well of soulful expression.”
-Eric Fong
Trial Lawyer of the Year:
The Washington Association for Justice
The Washington Defense Trial Lawyers
Super Lawyers: 2011 – 2022
Faculty, Board of Directors: The Trial Lawyers College
“Working with Claude Stein has been a rare privilege for all members of our firm. His method provided highly effective tools for enhanced communication, deposition, and courtroom techniques. I urge you to work with Claude as we did.”
-H. Philip Grossman
President: The Kentucky Justice Association
President: The Louisville Bar Association
Member: The Million Dollar Advocates Forum
This Program is For:
Experienced attorneys who want to sharpen their skills and those who may be new to the courtroom.
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Claude Stein is a Multi-platinum award winning voice coach with artists on every major record label. He began playing the piano at age 4 and trained at the New York Actors Institute and the Voice Foundation at Jefferson Medical College. Claude graduated Bard College with a degree in music composition and analysis and has conducted choirs in groups from 12 to 400 members.
Claude has performed his original music in over a dozen New York venues, and continues to write and produce songs for many of his clients in his studios in New York City and Woodstock, NY. His workshops to help beginners along with corporate executives to find their voice and overcome performance anxiety have been offered across the U.S. and in Canada, Austrailia, Mexico, Germany, Israel, Brazil, Portugal, Great Britan, Italy, Dubai, Norway, and Belgium.
offered to attorneys at:
RI Association for Justice, Kentucky Justice Association,
Friedman-Rubin, Mandell-Boisclair & Mandell, Fong Law,
Dormer-Harpring, Leavitt-Yamane, Soldner-Grossman-Green,
Zagoria Law, Gigax Law, Frost Law Firm, pkblawfirm, Baton Rouge Law,
Wells Trumbull, Tashnizi Law Firm, Calvin Smith Law, CMG Law,
J.D. Smith Law, Barton Trial Attorneys, Combs & Brown
Bloom Law
and at:
U.S House of Representatives, Accenture, JPMorgan, Sprint, G. E.,
N.A.S.A., Dynamic Directions, Graham Windham, Siemens,
Vistage International, Altria, Johnson & Johnson, Genzyme,
Kaiser Permanente, Voya, New Balance,, Computer Sciences
The Hartford, Maersk Shipping, The Center for Creative Leadership
MIT Sloan School of Management, The Women’s Leadership Forum, PixelMEDIA
The Conference Board, The Authentic Leadership Institute, Sobi
The Young President’s Organization, Zachry Construction
Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, The Boys and Girls Club of America
Madison Square Garden Company, The Juilliard School, The NYU Graduate Program, The Learning Alliance
The Rubin Academy of Music, Drexel University, The New York Actors Institute
served on faculty at:
Mobius Executive Leadership, The Center for Professional Excellence, Sprint, G. E., N.A.S.A. New Balance,
The Omega Institute, Esalen Institute, Ethos Attorney Programs, The New York Open Center,
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Massachusetts General Hospital Leadership Academy
presented main-stage keynotes for:
The National Speakers Association, Inter-American Development Bank,
The International Coaches Federation, The Global Sufficiency Network,
The Creative Problem Solving Institute, The Qualitative Research Consultants Organization,
The California Workforce Association, The World Bank
offered pro-bono programs to:
The Alia Institute, Every Voice Counts, The Mastery Foundation
The Global Sufficiency Summit, The Boys and Girls Club of America, Kiwanis Club