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Focus Groups & Jury Consultants (Civil Litigation Update 2025 session)


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  • Start Date:2025-06-24 08:00:00
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  • Level:Intermediate
  • Topics:Litigation

$79.00 ProPass

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This program is eligible for 1 hour of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 1.2 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.

Overview

Focus Groups & Jury Consultants
This session will explore the vast array of services available from jury consultants including juror analysis and focus groups. Participants from both the Plaintiff and Defense bars will share their experiences regarding when these services are most useful and how they add value to your case.


Recorded in June 2025.

Faculty

Ann Greeley, Ph.D.

Dr. Ann Greeley has been a psychologist and trial consultant for over30 years. She is the owner of ATGreeley Consulting, LLC. Most recently Dr. Greeley was a Vice President with a major national jury consulting company for 26 years. She previously worked for FTI corporation and Jury Analysts, Inc. Prior to becoming a litigation consultant, she was an Assistant Professor at Penn State University and was in private practice as a licensed psychologist. Dr. Greeley has consulted on over 1,000 civil and criminal cases in more than 100 federal and state jurisdictions throughout the country. She has conducted extensive pre-trial research including traditional in-person mock trials and focus groups, online jury research, online and in-person surveys, in-person and remote witness preparation, jury selections and post-trial interviews and consulted on online and in-person mediations, arbitrations and bench trials. She has worked in venues in most of the 50 states and territories, including Alaska, Puerto Rico and Guam. Dr. Greeley has worked on intellectual property, product liability, antitrust, white collar, commercial, employment, insurance coverage, environmental, employment, and personal injury cases, including sexual assault and abuse cases, and medical, accounting and legal malpractice cases, many of which have been high stakes. She has written extensively on jury research, witness preparation and jury selection as well as diversity issues in the courtroom and recently, the psychology of jurors in the COVID-19 era. She is a frequent speaker at national and state conferences.

Melinda C. Ghilardi, Esq.

Melinda C. Ghilardi is an attorney at Munley Law personal injury attorneys.  Prior to joining the firm, she was the First Assistant Federal Public Defender, an Assistant Federal Public Defender as well as an Attorney/Investigator for the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania for 33 years until retirement in February 2019.  She began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Lackawanna County. Melinda is Chair of the House of Delegates Committee on Credentials and Admissions, a Co-Vice Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Federal Practice Committee and serves on the Executive Councils of the Civil Litigation Section and the Commission on Women in the Profession.  She is also on the Board of Directors of the PA Bar Foundation.  She served on the PBA Board of Governors as both the Woman Governor and Unit County Governor.  In that capacity, she was also a member of the PBA Nominating Committee. Melinda has also held the following positions in PBA Committees:  Co-Chair of the Commission on Women in the Profession, Chair of the Diversity Team, Co-Vice Chair of the DEI Team, and Co-Chair of the Bar Leadership Institute.  She is also a long-time member of the PBA House of Delegates. Melinda has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer from 2022 to the present as well as in Best Lawyers in America for 2024.  In 2005, she received the Lynette Norton Award presented by the PBA’s Commission on Women in the Profession. That same year, she received the inaugural Athena Award presented by the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce. In 2016, Melinda received the Robert J. Munley Distinguished Service Award from Lackawanna Pro Bono, Inc. Melinda is a member of the American Association for Justice, Pennsylvania Association for Justice, and the Melvin Belli Society.  She is the Treasurer of the Association of Women Lawyers of Lackawanna County.  She has also served as Secretary of the National Association of Federal Defenders and is a past President of the Lackawanna Bar Association. In her community, Melinda is a member of the Board of Directors of the Circle 200 Forum for Senior Level Executive Women and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV).  She also serves on the Legal Committee of the Barbara J. Hart Justice Center. The University of Scranton honored Melinda by establishing an Ignatian Scholarship in her name and, in 2000, presented her with the Frank J. O’Hara Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding achievement in the field of law.  She is a current member of the Board of Visitors of the University’s Panuska College of Professional Studies. She is a 1976 graduate of Scranton Preparatory School and a 1980 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Scranton.  In 1983, she was awarded a juris doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Glenn Ricketti, Esq.

Glenn Ricketti first became associated with Margolis Edelstein in 1985. He has been a partner at the firm since 1991. His practice concentrates on complex commercial litigation and general liability claims litigation. He has handled hundreds of jury and non-jury trials in both the State and Federal court systems, arbitration hearings, as well as uninsured motorist and underinsured motorist hearings. Glenn’s practice includes handling a wide array of cases from international, national and regional corporations and insurance carriers ranging from catastrophic multiple death cases to major property damage claims with damages in the tens of millions of dollars and personal injury claims. Along with commercial litigation and general liability claims, Glenn has handled numerous coverage and declaratory judgment actions through both the trial and appellate levels. Over the past years, Glenn has been selected by various corporations, businesses and insurance companies to take over major litigation cases from house counsel on the eve of trial to prepare for and litigate the cases through a successful resolution or through the trial and the appellate courts. Glenn’s practice includes: Commercial and Business Litigation; Insurance Coverage Litigation; Automobile and Trucking Litigation; Bad Faith Claims; General Liability; Municipal Liability; Products Liability; Premises Liability; Construction Defect Litigation; and Workplace Accident Litigation. Glenn has represented clients in litigation stemming from breach of contract, business disputes, large commercial construction projects and residential construction projects representing general contractors as well as subcontractors in claims involving water infiltration, stucco, EFIS claims, fire, and building collapses. In addition, Glenn has extensive experience in defending premises liability claims due to slip/trip and fall and premises defects, including defective design and maintenance.

Mackenzie Wilson, Esq.

Attorney Mackenzie E. Wilson is a trial lawyer who focuses her practice on a variety of litigation matters including trucking and motor vehicle accidents, wrongful death/survival cases, brain injury cases, and medical malpractice litigation. Mackenzie received her J.D. from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. During Law school, she worked as a student attorney in the Villanova Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic. As part of her work with the clinic, she provided pro bono legal representation to farmworkers living and working within Pennsylvania. Prior to law school, Mackenzie graduated magna cum laude from The University of Scranton where she received a double major in political science and philosophy. Additionally, she graduated from the Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program.
Mackenzie is admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania and is a member of the American Association for Justice, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, and the Lackawanna Bar Association. Mackenzie is a Region 1, District 10 coordinator for the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s High School Mock Trial Competition. She is also the Regional 10 Coordinator for the high school mock trial, which includes Bradford, Carbon, Lackawanna, Monroe, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Pike, Wayne, and Wyoming counties. Mackenzie volunteers with Lackawanna Pro Bono to provide legal representation to residents of Lackawanna County. Within her community, Mackenzie is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Pocono Mountain Public Library.

Jennifer S. Coatsworth, Esq.

Ms. Coatsworth is a partner at Margolis Edelstein. She has litigated hundreds of motor vehicle, dealer fraud and lemon law cases from both the plaintiff and defense sides. Additionally, she concentrates her practice in the defense of professionals such as realtors, home inspectors, accountants and physicians. She also has extensive experience with premises liability and product liability and has handled employment and construction work and several fraternity cases. Ms. Coatsworth has defended dozens of car dealerships and real estate sales people for claims of breach of contract and fraud and violations of various fraud-related statutes such as the Unfair Trade Practices Act, the Magnuson Moss Warranty Improvement Act, the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Lemon Laws, the New Vehicle Damage Disclosure Act, the Automotive Industry Trade Practices Act, the Real Estate Sellers Disclosure Law and the Real Estate Licensing and Registration Act. Additionally, Ms. Coatsworth specializes in representing Greek letter organizations in all manner of claims including dram shop, hazing, and personal injury. She was selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Stars from 2011 through 2018 and Super Lawyers in 2021-2025. Ms. Coatsworth currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association as Immediate Past Chancellor, having previously served as Chancellor, Chancellor-Elect, Vice Chancellor, Assistant Treasurer, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Parliamentarian and Elected Member. Additionally, she is a past co-chair of the Women in the Profession Committee, and she is also very active with the State Civil Litigation Section, Women’s Rights Committee, LGBTQ Rights Committee and the Real Property Section. She previously served on the Executive Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of that organization for six years and held the positions of Secretary and Vice Chair of the Division. She also served as a Trustee of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and a Board Member for Philadelphia VIP. She serves on the Leadership Council of Community Legal Services and the Advisory Board for Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts. In the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Ms. Coatsworth is the Immediate Past Zone One Governor and she co-chairs the Membership Development Committee. She also serves as Vice Chair of the Civil and Equal Rights Committee and Large Firm Management Committee, and she sits on the Executive Counsel of the Civil Litigation Section as a Past Chair and the Women in the Profession Commission’s Executive Council as Co-Chair of the 2026 Fall Retreat. She previously served as co-chair of the PBA Women in the Profession Commission and chaired several of its committees including Annual Meeting, Fall Retreat and Awards Committee. She is also a Past Chancellor of the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society, and she serves on several committees of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania including the Community Outreach Committee and the Jury Diversity Task Force.


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