State v. Lewis

Frank D. Rothschild has taught and lectured on trial advocacy since the 1970s. During that time, he has been a NITA team leader and faculty member in hundreds of basic and advanced trial, deposition, and technology courses. He has designed and been faculty at innumerable in-house programs for firms, insurance companies, and governmental agencies. In 1996, he received the Hon. Prentice H. Marshall Faculty Award from NITA.

Mr. Rothschild graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. He had his own general practice in Marin County, California, before becoming a public defender in Juneau, Alaska. He then worked as a civil litigator for Perkins Coie in its Anchorage, Alaska, office, followed by three years as a felony prosecutor for the Anchorage District Attorney’s office. In 1985, he moved to the north shore of Kauai, where he has lived since. Besides the many trial training programs he teaches each year, Mr. Rothschild also serves as an arbitrator/mediator for the American Arbitration Association and Dispute Prevention and Resolution, based in Honolulu. He served as a district and family court judge on Kauai for twenty years and is a member of the appellate mediation panel for the Hawaii Judiciary’s Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Mr. Rothschild has participated in a host of cases (trials, mediations, arbitrations) as a trial and graphics consultant, planning trial strategy, facilitating mock jury studies, and preparing PowerPoint graphics for general commercial, personal injury, and construction cases. He has authored or co-authored over twenty publications for NITA as well as many case files.

Since the beginning of her legal career, following her graduation in 1991 from the Washington University School of Law in St. Lois, Missouri, Zelda B. Harris has been involved in domestic relations, particularly in family and domestic violence. Presently, she is a member of the law faculty at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, where she teaches and directs the Domestic Violence Law Clinic. Prior to her move to the University of Arizona, Harris was a senior instructor for the Children's and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law, where she and her students provided advocacy for parents involved in child abuse, neglect and dependency cases in a reform effort at the Cook County Juvenile Court in Chicago. Harris began her legal career as a staff attorney for Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., in Alton, Illinois.