Kassius Benson provides expert trial and jury consulting services. During his 29-year career as a trial lawyer, Kassius Benson was lead counsel in well over 150 jury trials to verdict in Federal and state courts throughout the country. He has picked juries in countless more cases. Kassius now consults, teaches, and trains trial lawyers, law firms, and agencies the best methods and most effective methods of preparing and executing all facets of jury trial work.
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“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
— Muhammad Ali
Services
Trial & Jury Consulting
Collaborating closely with attorneys, Kassius Benson assists in developing winning strategies, themes, and approaches for use in jury trials. Drawing upon his extensive trial litigation and jury research experience allows Kassius Benson to offer unique tools to maximize the persuasive impact of an argument. The process unlocks the power of storytelling by identifying overarching themes within an argument and assembling a narrative that emphasizes the key components necessary to obtaining the desired verdict.
Mock Trials / Focus Groups
Mock trial is the most efficient and reliable way to test out your case, learning in advance of trial the driving issues that can lead to either victory or disaster. There’s simply no substitute for the wisdom of lay persons who, both as individuals and as a focus group, pass judgment on every critical aspect of your case. This feedback is absolutely essential in managing the risks presented by litigation, and will prepare you and your client to make the best strategic decisions possible.
Witness Preparation
Witness preparation provide fact and expert witnesses with strategies to communicate clearly and effectively while managing the emotional aspect of testifying.
Using decades of practical experience, Kassius Benson helps your witnesses develop testimony themes, improve verbal and non-verbal delivery, and offer tactics for cross-examination. Kassius Benson can also assess the content and order of examinations to ensure consistency with your trial themes and case stories.
More about
Kassius Benson
Kassius Benson is an experienced, effective, and fearless trial strategist and advocate for his clients. In his 29 years as a trial lawyer, Kassius Benson represented clients in high-stakes criminal and civil trial matters. He clients include individuals in courts throughout Minnesota, Washington, DC, and the entire nation in both federal and state courts. His trials involved major financial crimes, homicide, conspiracy cases, and all major criminal charges. Kassius Benson’s representative clients include individuals in need of help, attorneys, doctors, professional athletes, entertainers, corporations, small business owners, firefighters, federal government employees, law enforcement officers, and legal agencies. He also engages in extensive pro bono work.
From January 1, 2021 through 2022, Kassius Benson stepped away from private practice and served as the Chief Public Defender for the Hennepin County Public Defender's Office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In his two-years in the position of Chief Defender, Kassius made advancements at the Office by establishing a comprehensive Attorney Training and Development Program as well as increasing diversity in the Office through national recruiting efforts. Both measures fostered true client-centered representation. In January 2023, Kassius Benson re-entered private practice.
Kassius Benson received his Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After law school, Kassius Benson worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) in Washington, D.C., where he defended indigent clients charged with serious felony criminal offenses in the District of Columbia Superior Court. Here, Kassius developed the fearlessness, work ethic, and trial skills necessary to effectively advocate for his clients at every stage of a criminal case.
Kassius Benson trains and mentors students and lawyers in criminal defense and trial advocacy. He was a founding faculty member at the Minnesota Public Defender Trial School, started in 2004, and has trained lawyers in Minnesota, Georgia and Alabama. He previously taught at the University of Minnesota Law School’s Misdemeanor Defense and Prosecution Clinics as an adjunct professor.
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