Peter J. Toren | Peter J. Toren Attorney at Law

Peter J. Toren is an intellectual property litigator with over 40 years of experience dedicated to helping individuals and companies protect their IP rights. He is admitted to practice in California, the District of Columbia, Georgia, and New York. He has been a partner at several prominent law firms, including Sidley Austin in New York City.

Before transitioning to private practice, he served for eight years as a federal prosecutor with the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) in Washington, D.C., where he was among the first five prosecutors hired and served as Acting Deputy Chief. He prosecuted numerous cases involving violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Criminal Copyright, Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods, and the Economic Espionage Act. Since then, he has represented several companies and individuals in EEA criminal investigations and litigated multiple Defend Trade Secrets Act matters.

His current practice focuses on trade secret litigation, computer crimes, and Nazi-looted art restitution cases, where he represents his own family and other families and heirs seeking recovery of artwork stolen during the Holocaust.

Peter is a co-author of the Trade Secret Case Management Guide (2023), published by the Federal Judicial Center, which is the research and education agency for federal courts. He is the author of Intellectual Property & Computer Crimes, the leading treatise on criminal violations of intellectual property rights and computer crime, first published by Full Court Press in 2003, and a co-author of The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 Handbook, published by Wolters Kluwer, which has been updated four times since first being published. He has published over 125 articles on various legal topics and received an award for excellence in legal publishing. Peter serves as an editor of IPLaw360 and is the co-leader of a Sedona Conference team on criminal trade secret law and practice. He is a frequent contributor to the press on intellectual property and trade secret matters.

Brett Sagel |

Brett Sagel is a highly skilled trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor with over 26 years of experience handling some of the nation’s most complex cases. As an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California for over two decades, he led high-stakes prosecutions involving white collar crime, corporate fraud, and public corruption. He held various leadership positions, including the Chief of the Corporate and Securities Fraud Strike Force and served as the Assistant Director of the Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center, where he modernized the Department’s criminal trial advocacy program and trained hundreds of prosecutors nationwide.

Throughout his distinguished career, Brett tried over thirty federal jury trials — many lasting weeks or months — and secured numerous high-profile convictions, including against attorney Michael Avenatti and Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona. Brett drafted scores of appellate briefs and argued before the Ninth Circuit 15 times. As a dedicated mentor to new prosecutors, Brett also supervised and mentored dozens of additional federal trials and hearings.

In addition, Brett is an accomplished educator, teaching courses on trial advocacy, evidence, white collar crime, among other topics, to prosecutors across the country and lectured internationally on behalf of the Department of Justice and the United States Department of State in numerous countries in Asia, Central and South America, and Europe. Brett has also served as an adjunct professor at a local law school and college.

Brett began his career at the Department of Justice’s Tax Division through the prestigious Honors Program. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and his Juris Doctor from the George Washington University School of Law.

Angela Dooley, PhD | U.S. Department of Justice

Angela Dooley, PhD is a nationally recognized leader in instructional design, adult learning, and organizational development, with over two decades of transformative impact across the U.S. Department of Justice and higher education. Angela was the Chief Learning Officer for DOJ where she spearheaded training strategy for more than 115,000 professionals, aligning learning systems with national priorities, including leadership development, employee engagement, and AI integration. Her tenure included oversight of multimillion-dollar budgets, cross-agency collaboration, management and supervision of multiple teams, and international teaching and facilitating in over 20 countries.

Angela founded DOJ’s Faculty Development Institute, training thousands of attorneys and legal professionals in instructional design, teaching, and facilitation skills. Her work in curriculum development and impact evaluation elevated DOJ’s learning programs to measurable excellence. She also founded DOJ’s Justice Leadership Institute, training DOJ employees on leadership and supervision.

Angela’s expertise bridges psychology, law, and pedagogy. She has consulted on federal trials, designed mock jury instruments, and published extensively on attention, memory, and multimedia learning. Her research-informed approach has shaped training for judges, federal prosecutors, law enforcement, and legal educators worldwide.

Angela holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and Research, master’s degrees in Business Administration and Health Administration, and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and College of Education. Her career reflects a rare blend of strategic leadership, empirical rigor, and creative instructional vision—empowering professionals to learn, lead, and serve with purpose.

I. Review of the key principles of attention, learning, and memory and how presenters can use visuals to support and persuade audiences | 2:00pm – 2:15pm

II. Discussion of visuals, how presenters can use visuals, and the research behind why certain techniques work/don’t work. Examples include the use of visual structures, images, icons, and even “boring” documents | 2:15pm – 2:45pm

III. Interactive case study showing how to transform a verbal-only presentation to one that also includes helpful and persuasive visuals and visual presentation techniques | 2:45pm – 3:00pm