These esteemed attorneys are trial practice experts that have been or will be faculty in presentations of the Question Spectrum Workshop.
Michael L. Stout is a criminal law specialist in private practice in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is a frequent lecturer and educator on jury selection, trial skills, eyewitness identification, and various other legal issues. He has conducted seminars and workshops in virtually every state and has worked and lobbied to ensure the fair operation of the legal system.
Randi McGinn is one of the country’s leading trial lawyers, having represented thousands of men and women in her 40 years of practice and having tried to verdict over 130 civil and criminal cases – everything from trucking collisions to workplace violence to medical malpractice to products liability lawsuits.Having started out as a journalist, Randi McGinn is a consummate storyteller. From the pile of facts that is your case, she reaches in and pulls out the beating heart of your story.
Lee R. Hunt is a trial attorney practicing personal injury law, including wrongful death, catastrophic injury and medical malpractice. Lee has worked hard to continually present complicated cases to juries in New Mexico. He has tried many cases throughout the state, in both State and Federal Court, and has received many favorable results for his clients. In the last two years, Lee has had over $100,000,000 in jury verdicts on cases with low offers going into trial. Lee credits much of the results to connections made with the clients before trial and with jurors during voir dire. Lee has worked with many different teachers on trial techniques and believes that the work put in voir dire carries over to every aspect of trials. Frequent lecturer on trial techniques, including voir dire, opening and on general trial tactics.
Peter Schoenburg is a partner in the Albuquerque office of Rothstein Donatelli, LLP. eter specializes in complex criminal defense work in both federal and state courts. He is also a veteran trial advocacy teacher and taught Evidence and Trial practice at the University of New Mexico School of Law for 15 years.
Joleen Youngers is a civil trial lawyer with Youngers Law, PA. In addition to her litigation practice, she is a member of the Board of the New Mexico Trial Lawyers and is Co-Chair of the Annual Tort Update. Beyond litigation, Ms. Youngers also frequently teaches trial advocacy and Continuing Legal Education courses. She has taught for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has often served as an adjunct professor for the University of New Mexico School of Law and the University of San Francisco trial advocacy program.
Raymond Maestas is an experienced trial attorney with decades of experience he puts to work for the Law Offices of the Public Defender.
Heather LeBlanc has been practicing criminal law since 2008. She has dedicated her career to defending the rights of people who find themselves within the criminal justice system. Ms. LeBlanc has served on the board of the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (NMCDLA) and is a recent co-chair of the Education and Professional Improvement Committee, which oversees the organization’s training curriculum for attorneys statewide. Ms. LeBlanc has trained attorneys throughout the state on a multitude of topics. She has also taught at the UNM School of Law as an adjunct professor in both the Criminal Law in Practice course and the Evidence and Trial Practice course.
Megan Dorsey is an associate attorney at Rothstein-Donatelli. Her current practice focuses on state and federal criminal defense and civil rights litigation. Ms. Dorsey previously worked as an associate at Egolf, Ferlic, Martinez, & Harwood where she litigated a variety of criminal and civil cases. Ms. Dorsey has also worked as a policy analyst for the Speaker of the House during past legislative sessions, and as an attorney for the Law Office of the Public Defender, litigating hundreds of cases with charges ranging from traffic misdemeanors to homicide, trafficking and white-collar crimes.
Wendy York worked at the Santa Fe Public Defender and then entered private practice, focusing on criminal and civil litigation. She also taught torts, criminal law, criminal procedure and trial practice. From 1997 until 2005, she sat as a District Court Judge in the Civil Division. She received the Outstanding Judge of the Year from the Albuquerque Bar Association and the Power and Caring Award from the Women’s Bar Association. Ms. York has worked as a mediator, special master and arbitrator. She has also helped lawyers prepare witnesses for trial. She is also a sought after speaker and trainer both locally and nationally.
Prescott Loveland is Assistant Public Defender for the State of New Jersey. Prescott supervises and supports several criminal trial regions in addition to OPD’s collaborative defense programs including the forensic, immigration, and navigator units.Prescott’s trial and litigation experience includes complex forensic and mental health issues and defending children prosecuted as adults. Prescott teaches and trains on trial advocacy, sentencing mitigation, team defense, client-centered representation, and trauma-informed practice.
John Henderson served 21 years as a public defender in Virginia, Kansas, Colorado and now Maine. He served roughly equal time in both state and federal offices, most of it in Kansas. He represented clients in over 120 jury trials, including 33 criminal trials in the federal court (one of which he had to win on appeal for lack of sufficient evidence). He was trained at NCDC, the Colorado Boot camp, the Colorado jury selection process, and the best training ground – the courtroom. The first half of his career he was primarily a civil trial attorney (Connecticut and Washington D.C) but he didn’t really like it. Public defender work is his passion. He believes the most important right we have is a right to a jury trial.
Jennifer N. Sellitti was sworn in as Public Defender for the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (OPD) on February 1, 2024. Prior to becoming Public Defender, Jennifer served as Director of Training & Communications for OPD. She previously served as deputy of the agency’s Middlesex Trial Region and as an assistant deputy public defender in the Essex County Adult Region. Jennifer has trained lawyers in more than thirty-five states and speaks nationally about topics ranging from trial advocacy to transforming public defense systems. She is a trustee of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, serves on the Advisory Board of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Forensic Science Major, and is a member of the New Jersey State Bar and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. When she is not advocating for public defenders and the people they serve, Jennifer operates D/V Tenacious, a dive vessel that locates, dives, and salvages artifacts from shipwrecks in the North Atlantic.
Logan is a seasoned veteran of Maine’s indigent legal services community, having worked for over a decade in State, Federal and Tribal Courts handling a range of cases from misdemeanors to murders. She is passionate about ensuring high quality representation for indigent clients while treating clients with respect and dignity. She graduated from Lewis and Clark School of Law magna cum laude in 2012, with a concentration in Criminal Law.
Stephen Lindsay is the Senior Partner in the law firm Lindsay Law, PLLC in Asheville, North Carolina. Steve is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, a faculty member for the National Criminal Defense College, and dedicates several weeks a year to teaching and lecturing for various legal organizations, trial skills programs, and other bar associations. In his spare time, Steve enjoys playing golf, reading good books, fishing, doing crossword puzzles, listening to good music, watching good movies, and cooking good meals.