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Zena Lillie Pearl  

Writer, Producer, Director & Advocate for Domestic Violence Crime Victims

Zena has a spiritual coaching business which has won many accolades from her clients.

Zena has worked as a writer/producer/director in Hollywood and New York for over 25 years.

Zena started out in criminal litigation for juvenile offenders, moved into corporate law on Wall Street. Zena's television trial experience includes being on the vanguard of historic break-through trials as children suing to divorce their parents, domestic violence cases such as Lorena Bobbit; The Menendez brothers who killed their parents. Also, she directed such landmark drug cases where the victim lost a judgment to the hospital, deemed being responsible for their own death, and many other landmark trials involving the death of a spouse such as the OJ trial.

Some of the attorneys she has worked with include Johnny Cochran, F.Lee Bailey, Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project, Judge and Prosecutor Kym Worthy, and Ms. Nancy Grace.

Some great legal correspondents that Zena has also worked on shows with are Barbara Walters, Cynthia McFadden and Terry Moran - who's traveled with presidents. She is now currently also an advocate for domestic violence crime victims.

Speech Topics

Inspired by one night in a domestic violence shelter after a day spent choking on her own blood; because of a heretofore gentle lover who suddenly snapped and bashed her head in several times; then threw her over 21 feet; the author gives advice on how she won her civil suit -- from the victim's point of view. A 'how to' for domestic violence victims to get a judgement and collect $100,000 or more!

  • 1.Why a civil suit?
  • 2.Facts about the bruises.
  • 3.Facts about legal charges for bruises.
  • 4.Facts about emotional bruises.
  • 5.Facts about psychological bruises.
  • 6.A criminal conviction is an automatic civil suit for you.
  • 7.How to deal with the court, the judges, the District Attorneys.
  • 8.Things you may not know about the court system.
  • 9.Things you need to know about finding a pro bono lawyer.
  • 10.Things you need to know about finding the right lawyer(s).
  • 11.Things you need to know about your rights as the victim in people v. criminal cases.
  • 12.Don't believe what you watch on the TV about any court proceeding.
  • 13.Things you'll need to win your civil suit.
  • 14.Things you need to know about how to act in court.
  • 15.Things you need to know to get a new relationship.
  • 16.Things you need to know about collecting your judgment.
  • 17.Never again.
  • 18.Control freak mothers and parents.
  • 19.Adult Children who are Survivors of Abuse, Abandonment and Neglect.
  • 20.Dealing with the Doctors and Therapists
  • 21.The Trial

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