"The Witness and the Woodshed: How to Effectively and Ethically Prepare Witnesses"

Janet Ward Black is the principal owner of Ward Black Law located in Greensboro, NC. She attended Davidson College where she graduated with a BA degree in economics and she attended Duke University School of Law where she earned her J.D.  Janet represents people in personal injury, workers’ compensation, veterans’ disability, family law and defective products litigation. Ward Black Law has represented over a thousand clients in the past 4 years with client settlements of over 34 million dollars. She is only the second lawyer in history to serve as president to the North Carolina Association of Trial Lawyers and the North Carolina Bar Association.

Aulica Monroe is an attorney Of Counsel at Womble Bond Dickinson located in Winston-Salem, NC. Aulica attended the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where she earned her BA in Journalism. She received her J.D. from Campbell University Law School. Aulica has significant experience assisting clients with trial preparation and motion practice in both state and federal courts. Aulica is particularly adept at handling all aspects of pretrial discovery, including the compilation of necessary facts to the naming, preparing and deposing of expert witnesses. Aulica has also represented R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in more than a dozen jury trials and has prepared medical witnesses and company scientific witnesses for deposition and trial in dozens more cases.