Patently Persuasive

About the Author

Dr. Karen Lisko has more than 30 years of experience in courtroom persuasion in intellectual property litigation and is a senior litigation consultant at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP. She strategizes with sophisticated patent litigators nationwide on persuasive arguments in arbitrations and bench and jury trials. She holds a doctorate in legal communication, a specialized degree held by only a few consultants in the nation, and is past president of the American Society of Trial Consultants (ASTC), and a recipient of its highest honor of the ASTC Lifetime Achievement Award. Karen has consulted on high-profile patent cases beginning with the landmark AZT patent litigation in the mid-1990s and carrying on to numerous patent cases involving well-known technologies, consumer products, and pharmaceuticals. She has conducted numerous mock arbitrations, mock jury trials, and mock Markman hearings for those cases, and has assisted in selecting numerous juries for patent trials. She is also a frequent speaker on the topic of intellectual property litigation. When not working to meet book deadlines and provide case strategy on patent cases, she works out to keep up with her three active children and husband. Dr. Kevin Boully is a senior litigation consultant with the international law firm Perkins Coie LLP. He has bachelor’s degrees in psychology and crime and delinquency studies, a master’s degree in forensic psychology, a doctoral degree in legal communication, and has been actively consulting with and assisting attorneys and companies in litigation since 2001. He is past president of the ASTC, as well as the former associate editor of the Jury Expert, and has spoken nationwide on topics ranging from jury selection to anti-corporate bias to persuasion in patent litigation. Kevin is also a published poet, a television writer for an award-winning late-night format comedy show, and a co-author of feature-length screenplays and sitcom pilot episodes for television. He is an avid outdoorsmen, hiker, and fly fisherman who loves to hang with his wife, Lauren, their two daughters Arden and Afton, and a variety of pets from dogs to chickens to turtles and beyond.