Better Witnesses, Inc. was established in 1997 by Amy B. Hanegan. 

Amy B. Hanegan has been a communication consultant since 1976.  As president of her own communications training firm in New York City, she provided training programs which would render techniques for enhancing public speaking skills, corporate presentations and selling skills.  With  Fortune 500  clients such as Exxon Corporation and Chase Manhattan Bank, she developed expertise in improving individual communication skills which she continues to do today.

After ten years in the training and development field, Amy Hanegan turned her attention to litigation consulting.  Ms. Hanegan joined Litigation Sciences, the pre-eminent litigation consulting firm in the country at that time.

In 1993, Ms. Hanegan joined Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, providing communication and litigation consulting services to in-house counsel as well as the Washington legal community.  In 1997, after establishing a strong presence in the state, Ms. Hanegan established Better Witnesses, Inc., a full service litigation consulting firm.

Her litigation consulting practice assists attorneys in:

    ◊ developing trial strategy

    ◊ preparing witnesses for deposition and trial

    ◊ conducting jury research

    ◊ designing visual aids

    ◊ providing voir dire and jury selection services

    ◊ enhancing opening and closing arguments through the use

       of effective communication techniques. 

Ms. Hanegan has extensive experience in Medical Malpractice and Employment cases.

Ms. Hanegan is a member and a past board member of the American Society of Trial Consultants.  She is often invited to be a guest speaker and/or provide continuing legal or medical education. Some of the groups to whom she has spoken are the National Trial Academy, Washington State Office of the Attorney General, the Civil Division of the King County Prosecutors Office, the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers,  the National Business Institute, and the bar associations of Oregon and British Columbia. Ms. Hanegan has appeared on the television program “Town Meeting” with Ken Schramm and has written for the ABA. She was most recently interviewed and quoted in “Medical Economics”.

Ms. Hanegan was an adjunct professor of Speech Communication at Cornell University while consulting in New York and holds an M.S. in Speech Communication from Emerson College in Boston.