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Renato C. Stabile is the President of DRC, where he leads case strategy and advancement of DRC’s core mission to help trial lawyers win cases. At DRC, Renato oversees a growing team of lawyers, psychologists, and graphic designers to provide DRC’s clients with a strategic edge at trial by constructing focus group presentations that effectively test clients’ trial themes, demonstrative concepts, and key evidence against what they are likely to face from the other side at trial. An experienced courtroom lawyer, Renato guides DRC’s analysis of focus group deliberations and develops evidence-based recommendations and demonstrative aids to overcome observed trouble areas. During trial, Renato works on-site with clients, preparing key witnesses, refining trial themes and demonstratives, drafting opening and closing arguments, and selecting juries.
As both a lawyer and trial consultant, Renato has litigated numerous high-profile cases, including Dominion v. Fox ($787.5 million defamation settlement), Masimo v. Apple ($634 million verdict for patent infringement); Sines v. Kessler (pro bono representation of plaintiffs in Charlottesville “Unite the Right” case), Rad v. IAC (representing the founders of dating app Tinder), Epic v. Google (antitrust case involving Google app store), United States v. Irving Lorenzo, et al., (acquittal in the “Murder, Inc.” case), United States v. Amin Khoury (acquittal in “Varsity Blues” case); United States v. Rosalie Garcia (Bronx “queenpin” released from a life sentence), and United States v. Juan Orlando Hernandez, (former President of Honduras).
A native New Yorker, Renato is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton (B.S. Biology) and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D.). He is admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Renato is a member of the SDNY’s Criminal Justice Act panel, where he represents indigent defendants charged with federal crimes. He is a frequent TV news guest commentator on various legal issues and high-profile trials. Prior to joining DRC, Renato was a lawyer at Gerald B. Lefcourt, P.C.