Louis Genevie, Ph.D. CEO
Louis Genevie, Ph.D. CEO
Dr. Louis Genevie, CEO
Dr. Louis Genevie is founder and managing partner of LitStrat, a jury research and trial consulting firm based in New York and Miami. For more than 20 years, he has consulted with corporate litigation counsel and senior trial lawyers on cases involving products liability, intellectual property, and complex business matters. Through strategic research on judges and juries, communications training, and graphic evidence consultation, he provides counsel with tools that increase the chances of a favorable outcome.
Dr. Genevie graduated from the University of Maryland in 1973 and received his doctorate from the Graduate Center of City University in New York in 1978. In 1982, after completing an NIMH post-doctoral fellowship, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After the professorship at Albert Einstein, and prior to founding LitStrat in 1990, Dr. Genevie was Vice President at Louis Harris and Associates, a national polling firm, and senior consultant at Litigation Sciences, the first trial consulting firm in the country.
Throughout his career, Dr. Genevie has acted as consultant to national policy organizations including the National Academy of Sciences, The American Bar Association, The Products Liability Advisory Council, and the National Institutes of Health. He has presented his work across the country and has appeared on national television and radio, including Court TV, CNN, Good Morning America, and Inside Edition. The results of his work have been published in The New York Times, USA Today, The Detroit Free Press, and in various professional journals, including Criminal Justice Digest, Social Policy, Community Psychology, The National Law Journal, For the Defense, and Inside Litigation.
He has been involved in hundreds of trials and has selected juries in all the major venues around the county. In 2003, and then again in 2007, Dr. Genevie was awarded U.S. Patents for his innovative voir dire research and training methods that provide trial counsel with information and experience critical to making the right decisions during jury selection as well as the best strategic decisions as the trial proceeds.
