Chris Ritter joined The Focal Point in 1998 after several years as a partner and trial lawyer at a major San Francisco law firm. He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and is a former faculty member at University of California Hastings College of the Law, where he taught trial practice, evidence, and legal writing. Chris is a master at clarifying the complex and making esoteric themes understandable and compelling. His courtroom experience is also instrumental in creating strategically sound, clearly delineated, and creatively convincing presentations and storylines designed to win. An accomplished author, he wrote Creating Winning Trial Strategies and Graphics, Powerful Deliberations: Putting It All Together for the Jury, and The Trial War Room Handbook, all published by the American Bar Association, and all lauded as definitive works in the field.