Speaking Engagements and CLE
Ms. Lyon is available for speaking engagements to legal and non-legal audiences nationwide. She is available to address the following topics and is open to creating new lecture topics.
- The Death Penalty as a Political Tool
- Litigating Racial Disparity
- The Role of Habeas Corpus in Civil RIghts
- Acting For Lawyers
- Cross Examination Lecture
- Cross Examination of Experts
- Cross Examination of the Pathologist
- Crossing the Empathic Divide: Helping the Jury Care About Your Client’s Mental Health Challenges
- Closing Arguments: Lecture and Demonstration
- Crossing the Empathic Divide: Helping the Jury care About Your Client’s Mental Health Challenges
- Direct Examination
- The Emotional Subtext of the Insanity Defense
- How to Try a Confession Case
- Humanizing the Inhumane Client
- Investigation and Preparation of a Criminal Case
- Interviewing Techniques for Investigators
- Opening Statements
- Post Conviction Practice
- Preparation and Direct Examination of an Expert Witness
- Public Defender Survival Kit
- Racial Disparity and Jury Selection
- Storytelling in Opening and Closings
- Theory of the Case
- Voir Dire on “Difficult Issues”
- Strategic alliances
- Team defense
- Forensic Science
- Attorney-Client Relationship in Capital Post-Conviction Representation
- Closing Arguments in the Death Penalty Case: Lecture and Demonstration
- Death is Different: Integrated Theory and Frontloading
- Defense of Battered Spouses Who Kill Their Batterers
- Experts and the Penalty Phase
- Getting the Most of Mitigation
- How to Try an Identification Case
- How to Try the Capital Case You can Win and the One You Can’t
- Improving Voir Dire Conditions in Capital Cases
- Investigating in the Capital Case for Investigators
- Making and Preserving the Record in a Capital
- Mitigation in the Penalty Case
- Mitigation in the “Themeless” Capital Case
- Motions Strategy in a Capital Case
- Motions and Negotiations in a Capital Case
- Negotiation in a Capital Case
- Opening Statements at the Death Penalty Phase
- Presenting Mitigation Effectively
- Prosecution Themes at the Death Penalty Trial
- Representing the Recalcitrant Capital Client
- Trying Your First Death Penalty Case
- Winning the Capital Case at Trial
- Voir Dire in Capital Cases
