Linda J. Dunikoski
Prosecutor - Speaker - Consultant - Author
Are you looking for a speaker for your next event? Or do you need to consult with someone in the criminal justice system about your book or movie, so that you get the characters and plot points correct? If you are looking for some monthly insight into prosecution, please sign up for my newsletter below.
Consulting: Legal Plot Points
Are you a writer? I will review your book or script to ensure that it is accurate and your character's actions are realistic.
Speaker: for Your Next Event
Providing you with insight and value, whether you want to hear about Strategic Case Analysis, effective jury selection or closing arguments.
Prosecutor - Speaker - Consultant - Author
Linda J. Dunikoski
My name is Linda Dunikoski. I was the lead prosecutor in the November 2021 homicide trial of the three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, GA on February 23, 2020.
Over twenty years of experience in felony criminal investigations and trials.
I am a Senior Assistant District Attorney and the head of the Appellate Section for the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office in Marietta, Georgia. I graduated from Indiana University in 1989 and Georgia State College of Law in 1993. After a successful thirteen-year career in sales, I joined the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office in Atlanta in 2002. In 2006, after spending a year in the Crimes Against Women and Children Division, I moved into the Major Case Division, primarily prosecuting homicides and high-profile cases. I was a member of the team that prosecuted the teachers and administrators involved in the Atlanta Public School Cheating Scandal, the longest RICO criminal trial in the State of Georgia, lasting from August 11, 2014, through April 1, 2015. I have tried over 95 felony cases to verdict.
Awards and Honors
Due to my work on the Ahmaud Arbery case, in June of 2022, I was honored to receive the Daily Report’s Georgia Legal Awards “Attorney of the Year.” In July of 2022, AGACL presented me with the Board of Directors Advocacy Award, in recognition of excellent in the litigation of complex homicide cases. In July of 2023, I was again honored, this time receiving the Assistant District Attorney of the Year award from the Georgia District Attorneys Association.
What Can I Do for You?
Consulting: Legal Plot Points
Those in the field of law enforcment and the criminal justice system hate it when a writer gets its wrong. Often the character will do something no police officer or lawyer would ever do. We, the audience, then stop reading or watching, tell all of our friends how bad the book or television show was, and blame it on the writer who got it wrong. Don't let that happend to you.
That is why I offer my consulting services to other writers. If you want to know if you got it right, if that plot point will work, if the science is real or you need to know what your character would actually do next, please contact me. See the schedule of fees below.
Event Presenter: Never Boring
Over the last two years I have been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences throughout the United States and Canada. I have spoken to various groups about numerous topics including the criminal justice system, "Strategic Case Analysis," trial preparaion, closing arguments, opening statements and jury selection. I have also presented to Georgia's prosecutors, Superior Court Judges and Judical Law Clerks on specific areas of the law, such a post-conviction pro se motions, contempt, self-representation and plea colloquies.
If there is topic you would like me to address for your group, please contact me. The schedule of speaking fees is below.
Best-selling authors do their research. I am sure you have noticed that writers such as Robert Crais, Michael Connelly and Deborah Crombie thank and acknowledge their crimnal justice consultants.
My Newsletter: "What You Think You Know About Crime is Wrong"
Please sign up here to receive my monthly Newsletter, where I talk about the latest in (interesting) legal news, debunk media myths about crime and prosecution and provide pointers on the mistakes writers make when it comes to the criminal justice system. (I also throw in my recommendations on books, music, food, travel and movies.)
Photo Gallery of My Recent Travels - Speaking to Various Groups Across the Country
Watch my final closing argument in the Ahmaud Arbery Trial (State v. McMichael, et al.)
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Schedule of Fees for Consulting or Speaking
CONSULTATION ON YOUR BOOK OR SCRIPT:
Simple Q&A or plot review:
I charge $250.00 an hour for consultation via video-conferencing. In person consultation, in Atlanta, is $350.00 for the first hour and $250.00 for each hour after that, at the same location.
For script review:
One-hour long program script: $500.00 for review of the script and a one hour consultation via video-conferencing.
Two-hour long (movie) script: $650.00 for review of the script and a one hour consultation via video-conferencing.
For a complete book review (350 pages):
There is a minimum charge of $950.00 for me to read the entire book and provide you with a one hour consultation via video-conferencing. This does not include editing services, but I will alert you to any problems I find in grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, continuity, etc...
SPEAKER FEE SCHEDULE AND EXPENSES:
If you are a govenment or educational organization, my speaking fee or honorarium is $3,500.00. If you are any other orgnaiztion, my speaking fee or honorarium is $7,500.00.
The travel expenses your organization will also cover include round-trip first class flights on Delta Airlines from Atlanta, at least two nights of hotel accomodations, transfer fees to and from the Atlanta airport and the destination airport, along with $100.00 a day for meals.
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Contacts
Please feel free to contact me about speaking at your next event or if you would like to hire me for consultation on your book or script.