Testimonials & Clients

From staff to summer associates to senior partners worldwide, Ben has offered programs and individual coaching that educate, inspire, and even entertain. Here’s what some of his clients say.

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What attendees say about Persuasive Matters seminars

Testimonials

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Amazing. I think I could have skipped all of college English and just attended Ben’s three hour program.

I learned more in that three hours than I did in my year-long legal writing class. He also made it as entertaining as a writing seminar could be.

This was the best writing workshop I’ve ever attended.

In contrast to most writing seminars I’ve attended, Ben’s engaging style and humor make his seminars not only informative but enjoyable.  His detailed analysis of the writing process, combined with simple pointers to help with everyday writing, helped improve the quality of my work a great deal.

Ben has a method of teaching that is as engaging as it is educational.  He infuses human sensibility into every facet of his curriculum.  Borrowing from examples across genres, Ben deconstructs the elements of good writing in an informative and interesting way.  From grammar and style to subtle persuasion, there is always something to learn.  And in his coaching sessions, he was willing to dig deeply into my writing to improve my work product.  I am a better writer for having worked with him.

Ben Opipari is a phenomenal presenter.  His workshop on clear and effective writing was one of the best of our WALRAA annual programs.  The subject matter was very helpful and was made even more useful by the fact that Ben took the time to tailor his examples to his audience. He achieves the seemingly impossible task of making the learning of writing skills highly entertaining through his engaging and witty personal style.

Ben conducted two days of seminars for our law students.  He is an incredibly dynamic speaker who keeps students riveted.  Our students learned about writing, persuasion, and grammar in an upbeat and enjoyable atmosphere.

I’ve always found Ben’s seminars to be very beneficial.  I’ve seen him several times, having team taught writing seminars for first year attorneys.  His strength is in his ability to both engage attendees and foster discussion among them, which is obviously a much more effective way than just a straight ahead lecture. He also manages to impart advice about legal writing that I haven’t heard anyone else give.

Ben’s experience with legal writing enables him to not only make lawyers better writers, but also better communicators.  His use of writing samples and humor makes improving your writing enjoyable.  And Ben’s ability to dissect your writing sample and help you rebuild it in a better, more powerful form demonstrates the effectiveness of implementing his skills and methods.  No attorney should go without attending one of his seminars.

 

Some Persuasive Matters Clients

  • ACES

  • AIG

  • Akerman LLP

  • Akin Gump

  • Albright Stoneridge Group

  • Allen Matkins

  • Allen and Overy

  • Alston & Bird

  • Amadeus IT Group

  • APWU Health Plan

  • Arent Fox

  • Arnold & Porter

  • Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider

  • Baker Botts

  • Baker McKenzie

  • Bank of Montreal

  • Bates White

  • Beseech

  • Bennett Jones

  • Best Best & Krieger

  • Blank Rome

  • Bracewell

  • Brown Rudnick

  • Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

  • Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

  • Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney

  • Buckley Sandler

  • Burns & Levinson

  • Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

  • Cambridge Associates

  • Charles River Associates

  • Choate, Hall & Stewart

  • Cleary Gottlieb

  • Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

  • Compass Lexecon

  • Consumer Technology Association

  • Cooley LLP

  • Cornerstone Research

  • Covington & Burling

  • Cozen O’Connor

  • Crowell & Moring

  • Davis Wright Tremaine

  • Dentons

  • DLA Piper

  • Drinker Biddle

  • Faegre Baker Daniels

  • FDIC

  • Fennemore Craig

  • Fenwick & West

  • Finnegan

  • Fish & Richardson

  • Foley Hoag

  • Foley & Lardner

  • Fox Rothschild

  • Fried Frank

  • Frost Brown Todd

  • Gilbert LLP

  • Goulston & Storrs

  • Greenberg Traurig

  • Greensfelder , Hemker & Gale

  • Groom Law Group

  • Gunster

  • Hannes Snellman Attorneys

  • Hanson Bridgett

  • Hodgson Russ

  • Hogan Lovells

  • Holland & Knight

  • Ice Miller

  • Idaho State Bar

  • iDiscovery Solutions

  • Institute for Justice

  • Jacksonville Federal Bar Association

  • Jenner & Block

  • Jones Day

  • K & L Gates

  • Kaplin Stewart

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

  • King & Spalding

  • Lathrop Gage LLP

  • Legal Education Society of Alberta

  • Levenfeld Pearlstein

  • Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP

  • Loeb & Loeb

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP

  • McDermott Will & Emery

  • The McLean Group

  • Meyers Nave

  • Minnesota State. Bar

  • Mintz Levin

  • Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp

  • Morgan Lewis

  • National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust

  • National Security Agency

  • Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg

  • New Zealand Mission to the United Nations

  • Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott

  • Nixon Peabody

  • Nossaman LLP

  • Ogletree Deakins

  • Orrick

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt

  • Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel

  • Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP

  • Patton Boggs

  • Paul Hastings

  • Paul, Weiss

  • Penn State Law Review

  • Pepper Hamilton

  • Perkins Coie

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

  • Price Parkinson & Kerr

  • Proskauer Rose

  • Redgrave LLP

  • Reed Smith

  • Rivkin Radler

  • Robins Kaplan

  • Ropes and Gray

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel

  • Secretariat

  • Sedgwick

  • Seyfarth Shaw

  • Shearman & Sterling

  • Sheppard Mullin

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon

  • Shulman Rogers

  • Sidley Austin

  • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

  • Snell & Wilmer

  • Squire Patton Boggs

  • Stein Sperling

  • Steptoe & Johnson

  • Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox

  • Stinson Leonard Street LLP

  • Strook & Strook & Lavan

  • Sullivan & Cromwell

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan

  • Taft, Stettinius & Hollister

  • Thompson Hine

  • UNICEF

  • U.S. Department of Transportation

  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  • Van Ness Feldman

  • Venable

  • Vinson & Elkins

  • Warner Norcross + Judd LLP

  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges

  • Wiley Rein

  • Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP

  • Williams Mullen

  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

  • Wilmer Hale

  • Womble Bond Dickinson LLP

  • Zendesk

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