Dr. Karen Lisko has more than 30 years of experience in courtroom persuasion in intellectual property litigation and is a senior litigation consultant at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP. She strategizes with sophisticated patent litigators nationwide on persuasive arguments in arbitrations and bench and jury trials. She holds a doctorate in legal communication, a specialized degree held by only a few consultants in the nation, and is past president of the American Society of Trial Consultants (ASTC), and a recipient of its highest honor of the ASTC Lifetime Achievement Award. Karen has consulted on high-profile patent cases beginning with the landmark AZT patent litigation in the mid-1990s and carrying on to numerous patent cases involving well-known technologies, consumer products, and pharmaceuticals. She has conducted numerous mock arbitrations, mock jury trials, and mock Markman hearings for those cases, and has assisted in selecting numerous juries for patent trials. She is also a frequent speaker on the topic of intellectual property litigation. When not working to meet book deadlines and provide case strategy on patent cases, she works out to keep up with her three active children and husband.