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Dr. Louis Genevie is founder and managing partner of LGA Litigation Strategists, a pre-trial research, witness preparation and graphic evidence production firm located in New York City.
During the last twenty years, Dr. Genevie has utilized community surveys, deliberation groups and trial simulations to develop winning strategies for both jury and bench trials. Dr. Genevie has advised counsel in more than 1000 civil and criminal trials, including victories in the doctor-assisted suicide trials of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. On the civil side, Dr. Genevie's experience includes intellectual property, products liability, employment discrimination, antitrust, securities, environmental and contract dispute litigation involving major software, pharmaceutical, insurance and manufacturing companies.
Prior to founding LGA Litigation Strategists, Dr. Genevie was Senior Trial Consultant at Litigation Sciences, Inc., the first jury consulting firm in the country. Before joining LSI, he was Vice President and head of the public policy division at Louis Harris and Associates, the national polling firm. In that capacity he was responsible for the development and direction of major national and international surveys on health care, education, the environment and other topics of public interest.
Before joining Louis Harris and Associates, Dr. Genevie, as a principal investigator, designed and had overall responsibility for more than 50 public policy studies for major corporations, foundations, and government agencies. His work includes a comprehensive study of criminal recidivism for the National Institute of Justice that received nationwide recognition.
Dr. Genevie graduated from the University of Maryland in 1973 and received his doctorate from the Graduate Center of City University in New York in 1978. In 1983, after completing a NIMH post-doctoral fellowship, he was named Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Genevie has acted as consultant to national policy organizations including the National Academy of Sciences, The American Bar Association, The Products Liability Advisory Council, and the National Institutes of Health. He has presented his work across the country and has appeared on national television and radio, including CourtTV, CNN, Good Morning America, and Inside Edition.
The results of Dr. Genevie's work have been published in The New York Times, USA Today, The Detroit Free Press, and in various profesional journals, including Criminal Justice Digest, Social Policy, Community Psychology, The National Law Journal, For the Defense, and Inside Litigation.
On August 19, 2003, Dr. Genevie was awarded a patent for his innovative research design entitled "Systems and Methods for Conducting Jury Selection Research," U.S. Patent Number 6,607,389.