Jury Duty
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Courts
Juror Casually Cruel In The Name Of Being Honest About Taylor Swift Priorities
There's gonna be a blank space in that juror's box. -
Government
Kamala Harris Trashes Public Defenders For The Audacity Of Trying To Win Cases
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Courts
'Jury Duty' Is A Great Show For Lawyers And Legal Professionals
'Jury Duty' ridicules but also celebrates many parts of the legal profession, and it should definitely be on your watch list.
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Courts
Young Thug Trial Judge Orders 30-Page Dissertation For Skipping Jury Service, Which Seems Cruel And Unusual
She tried to do the right thing and that's worth rewarding too. -
Courts
New Year, Old Problems: Jury Selection Starts For Elon Musk's 2018 Twitter Fingers
Pepperidge Farm remembers. And so does Twitter. -
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Small Law Firms
Lawyers Might Make Good Jurors
After all, lawyers may be more willing to base their decisions on the law and the facts of a case than other jurors. - Sponsored
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Law Schools
Anti-Vaxxer Law: The Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel
Also, jurors say the darnedest things. -
Crime
Jurors Bragged To Media And Now Ghislaine Maxwell Verdict Hangs In The Balance
Pay attention to your questionnaires! -
Courts
Ghislaine Maxwell Deliberations Running Late To Beat The Omicron Clock
Remember the part in 12 Angry Men where they had to avoid catching swine flu? -
Courts
15 of The 16 Potential Jurors In The Ahmaud Arbery Trial Are White. Problem?
No way this is gonna be an issue on appeal. -
Biglaw
Juries Are About To Get A Lot More Corporate-Friendly Thanks To COVID
Jury pools are likely to get a lot more corporate-friendly in the short-term.
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Trials
Keeping Your Jury From Social Media Contamination
What can we do as lawyers? A rule of thumb is to pick jurors who from the get-go have had less media exposure to the case. -
Crime
How Attorneys Use Race To Pick A Jury
Is 'disparate questioning' proper if done with the ulterior motive of kicking people off based on race? -
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Trials
9 Tips For Picking The Right Jury
No matter how experienced you get at voir dire, it's always a crap shoot -- but these tips could help you out. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.08.18
* Okay, let’s get this straight: Roy Moore’s Jewish lawyer isn’t Richard Jaffe, the one who voted for Doug Jones; no, Roy Moore’s Jewish lawyer is Martin Wishnatsky, the one who “has accepted Christ” as his savior. [Washington Post]
* In our last Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch, we focused a bit on the fact that rumored retiree Justice Anthony Kennedy hired a full set of clerks for OT 2018, but in case you missed it, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg already has a full set of clerks for OT 2019. The Notorious one isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. [Newsweek]
* Lawyers for the Department of Justice who are attempting to defend the Trump administration’s rescission of the DACA program have asked Judge William Alsup, who is handling the case, to ignore our “very stable genius” president’s recent tweets regarding the immigration policy. [The Recorder]
* Evan Greebel, pharma bro Martin Shkreli’s ex-lawyer, is facing hard prison time for conspiracy, but one of the juror’s who convicted him is having second thoughts. The former Biglaw partner better hope that Judge Kiyo Matsumoto decides to reopen his case. [Big Law Business]
* In what may have been some sort of a Christmas miracle, the legal sector witnessed a very slight uptick in jobs in December. Beggars can’t be choosers, so a gain of 600 jobs is better than nothing at all. Employment in the profession is still nowhere near where it once was before the recession. [American Lawyer]
* Lewis Donelson, cofounder of Baker Donelson, RIP. [Memphis Business Journal]
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Government
Juries Are Better At This Than You'd Think
Juries get a bad rap, but lawyers should have more faith.