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The Singer Companies
Amy Singer, Ph.D., is the founder and president of The Singer Companies, with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale and offices across the country.

 


  Amy Singer, Ph.D.  
  • Founder, CEO, and President of Trial Consultants, Inc.
  • Author of several books & articles on litigation strategy
  • Adjunct professor at Nova Law School
  • Faculty/Speaker/News Commentator
  • Pioneer litigation psychologist
  • Nationally Recognized Authority on group decision making & persuasion
       

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Singer Companies, Ft. Lauderdale FL; Founder, CEO and President, 1979 to Present

Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale and with offices across the country; departmentalized to focus on four major service areas to provide for others' success and well-being:
Litigation Psychology    Equestrian Services Adult and Child Education Charitable Projects

The Singer Companies litigation psychology companies are comprised of Trial Consultants, Inc.; Litigation Consultants Inc.; Trial Communications, Inc.; and The Institute for Settlement Sciences Inc. Additionally, they offer Singer Web Search The Search Engine that Follows the Law and Case Track, a 24-hour-access, password-protected cyber-file area developed specially for Trial Consultant attorney/clients.

Trial Consultants, Inc.; President and Chief Executive Officer, 1979 to Present:

Jury Research and Trial Preparation services provided to Litigation Attorneys throughout the United States.æ TCI--a multidisciplinary company comprised of psychologists, attorneys, sociologists, theologists, philosophers, and anthropologists--conducts jury simulation studies, concurrent juries, and juror profiling.æ TCI also constructs reliable and valid voir dire questions based on psychometric principles, and provides public opinion surveys and attitude surveys for change-of-venue studies.æ Additional consultation during voir dire is also available.

Institute for Settlement Sciences; President, Chief Executive Officer, 1993 to Present:

Provides cost-effective and specialized settlement intelligence for mediation and arbitration.

Trial Communications, Inc.; President, Chief Executive Officer, 1993 to Present:

Provides technical support for trials and settlement negotiation, including online demonstrative evidence, L.I.S.T.œ (Litigation Information Systems Technology).æ Offers cost-effective, electronically generated services through 1-800-A Jury Dr (reliable and case-specific, valid voir dire questions); theme development based on their extensive database; and online graphic design to maximize the persuasive power of attorneys‰ visuals.æ Other services include ‹Dial-a-Jury Reactionþ (a panel of surrogate jurors telephonically gives their reactions to attorneys‰ facts, issues, demonstrative evidence, and/or arguments); persuasion psychology; and the psychology of decision-making and case evaluation.æ Their newest methodology, Opinion Streamœ, gathers thousands of frank, objective opinions from online mock-juror communities and interprets this qualitative information to determine a roadmap of problem areas from which their experts can brainstorm solutions for all facets and stages of attorneys‰ case strategies.

Institute for Trial Consulting SM; President, Chief Executive Officer, 1993 to Present:

Using a variety of techniques and research methodologies developed by their litigation psychologists, the scientific side of this Institute collects data from surveys, focus groups, mock trials, witness preparations, and voir dire in various types of litigation.æ Additionally, the educational side of this organization uses that scientific data to teach and empower litigators to maximize their chances for successful results in court and/or in alternative dispute resolutions.

Litigation Consultants; President, Chief Executive Officer, 1997 to Present:

The country‰s only ‹litigation think tankþ!æ Litigation Consultants offers attorneys nationwide the singular advantage of being able to immediately tap into the collective wisdom, experience, and savvy of some of America‰s most eminent trial masters and genuine legal legends in order to achieve courtroom success for their clients.æ Dr. Singer and her groups of scientists, scholars, and lawyers around the world are famous for brainstorming creative, expert solutions (analysis, planning, presentation, or settlement) to many of the most difficult cases imaginable--cases with huge stakes, no clear solutions, and no margin for error.

The other Singer Companies‰ Web sites:

Class Action Equine Leasing: Fine show horses for sale and lease with an exclusive cash-back program that has never made having a quality horse more possible.

Search-For-Knowledge.com (charitable):Promotes Adult and Child Education through Home-Schooling Resources, Educational Course Study, Educator's Sources & Guide, and Research Launching Pad.

E-MailClassifieds.com (charitable):Visitors may place and peruse ads, all free of charge for donations to religious organizations and charities for the underprivileged.

Hollywood Memorial Hospital, Hollywood, Florida; Psychologist, 1980 to 1983

Psychologist, Private Practice; Miami, Florida; 1979 to 1985

Long Island Regional Office of Mental Health; Director of Program, Evaluation and Applied Research:æ Supervised all experiments and surveys performed by the Long Island Regional Office of Mental Health in New York State, 1978 to 1979.

Systems Analyst. Determination of data systems for the Management Information Systems Department for the Long Island Regional Office of Mental Health, Spring 1978.

Suffolk Development Center, Long Island, New York; Program Evaluator for Applied Psychological Research:æ Conducted Attitude and Demographic Studies, 1977 to 1978.

United Cerebral Palsy, Long Island, New York; Therapist, Biofeedback, 1973 to 1977

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

  • Nova University, School of Law, 1997 to Present:Psychology of Jury Selection
  • Hofstra University, Department of Psychology, 1979 to 1982: Statistics, Experimental Design and Social Psychology
  • Florida International University, Department of Psychology, 1982 to 1984:Developmental Psychology, Human Sexuality, and Psychology of Drug Abuse

 

 
 

SPEAKER FOR

Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
American Bar Association
American Trial Lawyers Association
Broward County Bar Association
Dade County Bar Association
Florida Bar Association
American Law Institute
State Bar of Texas
ABA Annual Meeting, Products, General Liability and Consumer Law
Florida Bar Labor & Employment Law Litigation, Orlando
Stetson University, Tampa, Florida
California Bar Association
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, Miami, Florida
Washington Law School
ABA Aviation and Space Law, Washington, D. C.
Wyoming Trial Lawyers
Inns of Courtæ (Washington, D. C., Tampa and St. Petersburg)
Southern Trial Lawyers
Florida Defense Lawyers
Washington State Trial Lawyers
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
Arkansas Trial Lawyers
Missouri Trial Lawyers
Kansas Trial Lawyers Association
Ohio Trial Lawyers Association
Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association
Ft. Lauderdale Claim Association
Dade Defense Bar
National Employment Lawyers Association
Miami Beach Bar Association
AFTL Workhorse Seminar, Orlando, Florida
Inner Circle Convention
ALI-ABA Advanced Law and Litigation Program
ATLA‰s Annual Convention
OATL Seminar
Stark County Trial Lawyers Seminar
CLE Seminar
DRI

       


Trial Consultants, Inc.
1463 NW 104th Drive Gainesville, FL 32606
Tel: 813.264.4492 Fax: 954.337.0569