Karin Powdermaker, M.Ed, LPC
Founder & President

Karin Powdermaker has over 20 years of experience as a jury consultant and has managed a successful national consulting firm, Powdermaker Consulting, since 2006. She has worked on numerous civil matters and has spent hundreds of hours in courtrooms providing real-time trial strategy through observation of jurors, witnesses and trial lawyers. Ms. Powdermaker has provided communication training to over a hundred witnesses for depositions, actual trial testimony and ITC hearings. She has conducted and assisted in more than one hundred mock jury studies, as well as having facilitated numerous shadow juries and post trial juror interviews.

Areas of civil litigation Include:

• Intellectual property
• Product liability
• Aviation
• Trade Secret
• Breach of Contract
• Oil & Gas
• Anti-Trust
• Medical Malpractice
• Media
• Employment
• Insurance defense
• Defamation

Ms. Powdermaker attended Stephen F. Austin State University where she obtained a Masters of Education. Ms. Powdermaker is a Licensed Professional Counselor for the State of Texas.

Publications & Professional Presentations

Powdermaker, K & Bloom, J. “The Jury Likes Me, The Jury Likes Me Not:  Building Rapport in the Courtroom.”  Texas Bar Journal, June 2006

Powdermaker, K & Bloom, J. “The Jury Likes Me, The Jury Likes Me Not:  Building Rapport in the Courtroom.”  The Advocate, June 2006

How to effectively prepare witnesses for trial testimony, presented at the Bexar County Annual Women’s Bar Retreat & CLE, Bandera, TX, June 2015

Effective traits attorneys can utilize in all aspects of public speaking, presented at the Bexar County Annual Women’s Bar Retreat & CLE, Bandera, TX, June 2015

Professional Associations

American Society of Trial Consultants
American Counseling Association