John and Nancy Romano, plus our Connectionology® Team welcome you back for another great webinar featuring National Jury Trial Consultant and World Class Expert, Robert Hirschhorn, Esq. of Cathy E. Bennett & Associates, Inc. in Texas, plus our wonderful moderator Dustin B. Herman, Esq.
Register today for “Smart Voir Dire in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 from 3:00pm-4:30pm ET – Eastern Time.
Robert Hirschhorn will discuss various tools for an effective voir dire. He will also discuss how he teamed up with two artificial intelligence engineers to develop a revolutionary and AI-driven jury research tool, VerdictHub, that combines his decades of jury experience with groundbreaking technology. He will show you how you can use AI to enhance your trial preparation to improve your trial strategy, from the start of your cases all the way through trial.
For those who do not know, Robert Hirschhorn of Cathy E. Bennett & Associates, Inc. is an attorney and nationally recognized expert in jury and trial consultation. Since 1985, he has helped select juries that have returned tens of billions of dollars in verdicts across the country. His recent work includes extraordinary results such as a $2.065 billion RoundUp verdict in Georgia (2025), a $109.5 million verdict for a client severely burned in a house explosion (2025), and a $60 million award in the first Enfamil baby formula case (2024).
He has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, News Nation, Court TV, HLN, Dateline NBC, 48 Hours, Nightline, and national radio. He lectures across the country on the art and science of jury selection.
Other notable outcomes include a $2.25 billion and a $175 million RoundUp verdict in Philadelphia (2024, 2023), an $860 million crane collapse case in Dallas (2023), a $440 million wrongful death verdict for a child (2023), and a $110 million award against 3M for two soldiers injured by defective military earplugs (2023). Earlier landmark verdicts include a $352 million award in Cruz v. Allied for a catastrophically injured man (2021), a $525 million patent infringement verdict in the Eastern District of Texas (2021), a $222 million wrongful death verdict (2021), and a $115 million award against the State of Washington (2020).
Robert was also part of the trial team that secured an $8 billion punitive damages verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a Risperdal case (2019), selected the jury in the first opioid litigation trial that settled for $260 million (2019), and helped achieve $550 million in actual and $4.6 billion in punitive damages for 22 plaintiffs in the Johnson & Johnson talc powder litigation (2018).
In the criminal arena, Robert has consulted in several nationally watched trials resulting in acquittals, including State of Florida v. William Kennedy Smith (sexual assault), State of Texas v. U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (ethics charges), State of Texas v. Robert Durst (murder), United States v. Robert Kaluza (Deepwater Horizon explosion), and United States v. Mark Forkner (Boeing 737 Max). A frequent speaker and thought leader, Robert has authored four books and numerous articles for Law360, Texas Lawyer, and AAJ.
This will be an extraordinary webinar, so we hope that you sign up now and join us on December 9th!
Plaintiff Attorneys, Criminal Defense Attorneys and their Paralegals may all register for free and receive a confirmation with the log in instructions. No Defense firms are permitted.
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Thanks to our wonderful partners at HMR, Fox-AE Stratejic Relationship, OnPoint Legal Nurse Consulting and VerdictHub!
HMR will be giving away 2 bags of delicious Costa Rica Tarrazu coffee and a coffee mug to one attendee. Good luck to all!
