Gary S. Gildin is Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson School of Law, where he holds the G. Thomas and Anne G. Miller Chair in Advocacy.

Professor Gildin has coordinated the law school’s award winning trial advocacy program for over thirty years. Gildin has been a frequent lecturer in national and statewide continuing education courses relating to trial skills, including serving as the course planner and faculty member for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s highly successful program, Trial Tactics, Tips and Techniques. Professor Gildin directs the annual Pennsylvania Defender Trial Skills Training, and for 25 years directed the Dickinson School of Law Civil Trial Advocacy Seminar and Workshop.

Professor Gildin continues to litigate cases for the Federal Bar Association Pro Bono Program and the American Civil Liberties Foundation. He is currently researching how the tactical use of story elements in advocating the case at trial can be squared with the law’s exclusion of character and propensity evidence. His most recent work, Cross-Examination at Trial: Strategies for the Deposition, is the lead article in the Spring 2012 issue of the American Journal of Trial Advocacy.

Joe Myers is a filmmaker and Creative Director at Penn State Public Broadcasting.

Joe has directed nationally broadcast documentaries including "Telling Amy's Story," "A Road to Independence," and "The Grange Fair: An American Tradition." Recounting a domestic violence homicide, "Telling Amy's Story" was one of seven U.S. selections at INPUT 2011 in South Korea. Joe is currently directing the original series "You Can't Say That” to air on the World channel. Joe's work has been seen on PBS, World, and the Discovery Networks among others. His honors include Mid-Atlantic Chapter National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy awards, the Silver Screen Award, a CINE Golden Eagle, and prominent festival awards. Joe is a 2008 fellow of the CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy. An inventor, designer, and worldwide bicycle traveler, Joe believes that there can be creativity in everything we do.