Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm who writes the Persuasive Litigator Blog recently wrote a review of Jury Selection Handbook entitled Know the Principles: A Review of the ‘Jury Selection Handbook.’” Here is Dr. Broda-Bahm’s post:
Jury selection presents a difficult challenge to trial lawyers, and calls for skills that are generally out of step with the rest of what they’re expected to master in order to get from filing to verdict. At the point of empaneling a jury, lawyers are expected to listen more than they speak, to learn more than they teach, and to embrace the case weaknesses and opposition that they would normally try to downplay. It is a subtle and demanding situation, and one that calls for not just advocacy, but for friendliness, sensitivity, and all the traits of genuinely good communication.
For law students and for practicing
attorneys who have not yet mastered jury selection, there is a new resource
focusing broadly on the fundamentals. The 2018 book, Jury Selection Handbook: The Nuts ands Bolts of Effective Jury
Selection, is available in both print and ebook versions
and is published by Carolina Academic Press as part of “The Lawyering
Series,” to support law schools and law professors in providing more innovative
and practical content. The authors are Ronald H. Clark, Distinguished
Practitioner in Residence at Seattle University’s Law School and Thomas M.
O’Toole, a Seattle-based litigation consultant. Overall, the book is a very
useful resource for the firm’s library, the litigator’s shelf, and the law
school classroom. In this brief review, I will call out three points: The book
covers the fundamentals, provides a wealth of applied examples, but also paves
the way for more advanced advice on jury selection.
Read the rest of the post here.
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