Powerful Persuasion with Presentations (11/18/24)

Powerful Persuasion with Presentations: MS PowerPoint Tips for Lawyers 

Lawyers can use good visual presentations to help educate, communicate and persuade. However, a poorly designed slide deck can mar the best speech. You don't need to be a graphic designer or a computer genius to create a great slide deck in Microsoft PowerPoint. In this session, learn tips and get how-to instructions to make quick work of creating a slide deck that can help add a visual component to your remarks. Whether for a judge, a jury, a class, a client, or colleagues, a well-built presentation can enhance comprehension and add another layer to your communication.

Speaker: Catherine Sanders Reach, Director of the Center for Practice Management, North Carolina Bar Association

Catherine Sanders Reach is Director for the Center for Practice Management at the North Carolina Bar Association. Formerly she was Director, Law Practice Management and Technology for the Chicago Bar Association and the Director at the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center. She was co-chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2020. She is co-editor of the 2023 ABA book Design Your Law Practice. Follow her on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/catheri...  or connect at www.linkedin.com/in/catheriner... 

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Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live.