Thursday, April 5, 2018

JURORS' PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR TRIAL LAWYERS


Thank you Mike Zuckerman for sending me the Honorable Amy J. St. Eve’s and Gretchen Scavo’s Cornell Law Review article entitled “What Juries Really Think: Practical Guidance for Trial Lawyers.” I’ve already passed the article on to my students at Seattle University Law School, and in the future I will use its findings when discussing my beliefs about what is appropriate and inappropriate conduct for trial lawyers. The following is the article:
“What do juries really think about lawyers? What makes jurors tick? What do lawyers do that irritates jurors? What can lawyers do better in the courtroom from the jury’s perspective? These are the questions at the heart of this article, which provides useful insight gleaned from more than 500 jurors who served in federal district court trials in Chicago, Illinois from 2011 to 2017. In this article, we present our analysis of questionnaire responses from those jurors, as well as their verbatim commentary, and distill both into practical guidance for trial attorneys looking to improve their trial skills.”

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