All the World’s a Stage: Elements of Theatre in the Practice of Law
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- Faculty:
- Matt J. Lafargue | Sy Sommer
- Duration:
- 60 Minutes
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Step into the spotlight and transform your legal advocacy with Matt Lafargue—an experienced attorney, actor, and director. In this dynamic CLE program, you’ll discover how theatre techniques can sharpen your communication and persuasion skills, both in and out of the courtroom.
What You’ll Learn:
- Command attention and exude credibility through intentional presentation.
- Use storytelling to captivate your audience and evoke powerful emotions.
- Master the art of voice, posture, gestures, pacing, and even wardrobe to deliver arguments that resonate.
Whether you're litigating, negotiating, or building client relationships, this session will help you take your performance to the next level.
Credits
This program is eligible for hour(s) of CLE credit in 60-minute states, and hour(s) of CLE credit in 50-minute states. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.
LEAP will seek MCLE accreditation in CA, CT, FL, IL, NJ, NY, PA, and RI. Additional states may be requested upon completion of the course.
If you have met the participation requirements for this course, you will receive a personalized CLE affidavit from mcle-leap@americanbar.org. Please check your spam folder as these e-mails may end up there. Once you complete the affidavit, you will be able to download your certificate(s) of attendance and they will also be emailed to you from mcle-leap@americanbar.org.
Faculty
Matt J. Lafargue Related Seminars and Products
Attorney at Law
Kemeny, Ramp & Renaud, LLC
Matt Lafargue has been a litigator for 15 years, having served as an Assistant District Attorney at the Nassau County District Attorney's Office in New York and a Deputy Attorney General at the New Jersey Attorney General's Office Division of Criminal Justice prior to joining Kemeny, Ramp & Renaud. Matt also won the Marden Award in law school as the outstanding oralist at NYU Law. But for more than 30 years, Matt has been an actor, singer, director, and performer. Matt has performed everywhere from the Paper Mill Playhouse, to Giants Stadium, to Lincoln Center, to the Notre Dame de Paris. Matt has also performed the national anthem at the State of New Jersey's official Veterans' Day ceremony and at numerous Somerset Patriots baseball games. Matt's practice at Kemeny, Ramp & Renaud is focused on litigation, and he brings skills from his theatre and performance background to bear in his legal advocacy every day.
Sy Sommer Related Seminars and Products
Director of Product Enablement
LEAP Legal Software
Sy Justin Sommer is the Director of Product Enablement at LEAP Legal Software. Sy is a 2010 graduate of Fordham Law School and is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York. Sy began his career in the Family Law Department of Manhattan law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP. After three years with DHC, Sy took a role with JPMorgan Chase Bank in Brooklyn, NY where he served as an Associate Vice President Senior Counsel in the bank’s Mortgage Banking Litigation group. In 2018, Sy sought to apply his legal education and experience in the legal technology space and joined LEAP with excitement to further the company’s mission of helping attorneys to be more productive with cloud technology. Despite being a born and raised New Yorker, Sy currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.