The methodologies taught within this program have been developed by lawyers who have also distinguished themselves as professional criminal interrogators.

John E. Reid was a lawyer who's innovative "Nine Steps of Criminal Interrogation" have not only become the industry standard among domestic and international law enforcement agencies but have also been favorably recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in Missouri v. Seibert (2004). Fred E. Inbau, former Director of the Chicago Police Department Crime Laboratory and John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law at Northwestern University, was co-author of the seminal text "Criminal Interrogation and Confessions" which was similarly favorably recognized in Seibert. Paul D. Newey was an attorney, intelligence operative, and criminal investigator spanning the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and the Cook County States Attorney's Office. The instructor for this program, Philip A. Mullenix, is himself a practicing Chicago attorney who received his training in the trade-craft of interrogation from each of these accomplished lawyers.

The techniques taught within the Lawyers' Institute of Forensic Interviewing are fundamentals of field interrogation which are used by America's intelligence community and law enforcement agencies. Those princi- ples have now been integrated with rules of evidence, discovery, and trial practice for their forensic application by attorneys in the search for truth and justice.

Our challenge is to those lawyers who think beyond traditional boundaries. It is they who will benefit most from the Lawyers' Institute of Forensic Interviewing.

Specific topics addressed at the seminar:

Advanced behavior assessment interviewing techniques designed to elicit information in a non coercive manner from adverse, hostile, or reluctant witnesses during formal statements, depositions and trial testimony.

Principles of verbal, vocal and nonverbal behavior symptom analysis to discern truth from deception.

Analysis of statutory and common law guide- lines, including rules of evidence and criminal/ civil procedure, governing the forensic use of interrogation techniques within witness interviews, depositions and trial testimony.

About The Presenter

PHILIP A. MULLENIX is a Chicago lawyer who has participated in thousands of criminal interrogations, including homicide, corporate espionage, securities fraud, narcotics, theft and sabotage. He has trained hundreds of law enforcement and security personnel in behavior assessment interviewing, interrogation and counter-terrorism profiling. Mullenix is the author of numerous publications on behavior assessment interviewing, domestic terrorism and tactics for the interrogation of terrorist suspects.

During more than 20 years of law practice, Mullenix has adapted non-coercive interrogation techniques as a means of eliciting information within the forensic context of civil and criminal litigation. He maintains an active practice in the trial and appellate courts of the State of Illinois and in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Course Fee:
$295 1-2 attendees
$245 3 or more