Jury Duty
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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. -
Sponsored Content, Trials
The Corporate Litigant: Tips For Addressing Juror Bias Toward Corporate America
Critical considerations in order to put the right face on your client. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Crime, Trials
Sorry, Jurors, But Criminal Defense Attorneys Almost Never Know If Their Clients Are Guilty
Defense attorneys weren't present at the scene of the crime, so how could they possibly know the truth?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.30.17
* Former President Barack Obama has been called for jury duty in November, and unlike most Americans, he’s not looking for a way to get out of serving. [ABC Chicago]
* The pivot you’re looking for is in another castle: Now that a grand jury’s approved the first charges in the Russian collusion investigation and someone’s about to be taken into custody, President Trump took to Twitter to demand that Hillary Clinton be investigated. [New York Times]
* Paul Manafort is turning himself in. Surprise! (Is this really a surprise?) [CNN]
* Like it or not, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is planning to be around for the long haul. Don’t count on this “flaming feminist litigator” retiring any time soon. [The Hill]
* Justice Don Willett of the Texas Supreme Court, the state’s Tweeter Laureate, hasn’t tweeted a single time since he was nominated to the Fifth Circuit. How long will this god-awful silence from everyone’s favorite Twitter judge last? [Texas Lawyer]
* So long, borrower-defense rule? Betsy DeVos is thinking about only partially forgiving loans for students who were defrauded by for-profit schools. [AP]
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Jury Duty, Trials
Taking The Stand: I Testify In Front Of A 12-Person Jury
While it was interesting to engage in a brief role reversal by taking the stand, the experience was more uncomfortable than exciting. -
Litigators, Sponsored Content, Trials
Breaking Down The Barriers To Bias: How To Uncover Bias During Jury Selection
Application of five critical strategies will help you overcome prospective jurors’ tendency to 'self-enhance.' -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.23.17
* Statues of Chief Justice Roger Taney may have been removed in his native Maryland, but don’t expect his bust to be removed from the Supreme Court’s Great Hall or his portrait to be taken down from the high court’s East conference room in the near future. The visage of the Dred Scott opinion’s author will remain. [National Law Journal]
* The Charlotte School of Law may be dead, but that doesn’t mean that former students’ proposed class-action lawsuits against the school have been put out to pasture. Though the bulk of the claims were dismissed, two such cases with allegations of unfair and deceptive trade practices have survived motions for summary judgment. Best of luck against Infilaw’s first fallen school. [Law.com]
* Much to his defense attorney Benjamin Bratman’s chagrin, the names of the jurors who convicted Martin Shkreli of securities fraud have been released. They’ve been talking to the press about the disgraced pharma bro, and one of them referred to him as “his own worst enemy.” [DealBook / New York Times]
* Meanwhile, Martin Shkreli’s ex-lawyer, former Kaye Scholer partner Evan Greebel, remains charged with wire fraud conspiracy, a charge on which Shkreli was acquitted by a jury. Greebel’s defense attorneys at Gibson Dunn have called this “a Kafkaesque scenario,” that is “frightening for every corporate lawyer in America simply doing their jobs representing clients.” [New York Law Journal]
* Berkeley Law is planning to launch a hybrid online/on-campus LL.M. program for foreign-educated attorneys. Students will be able to complete their fall and spring semesters online, but must attend classes on campus at the law school during the summer months. Tuition is a whopping $57,471. [The Recorder]
* Earlier this week, a California jury handed down the largest verdict thus far in a talcum powder cancer case against Johnson & Johnson. The plaintiff, Eva Echeverria, who had used J&J baby powder since the 1950s and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007, was awarded $417 million. [Consumer Affairs]
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Jury Duty, Trials
Disgraced Pharma Bro Doesn't Want Press To Interview Jurors Who Convicted Him
This might be 'unfair' to the jurors, but their comments will likely be very 'unfair' to Martin Shkreli. - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Crime, Rape, Sex, Sexual Harassment, Trials
Bill Cosby Jury Deadlocked, Because 12 People Can't Actually Agree On What Rape Is
We can't get 12 people to agree on consent, which is why we fail. -
Jury Duty, Minority Issues, Trials
Jurors Get Serious About 'Black Lives Matter'
Black or white, everyone wants their neighborhoods to be safe. They just don't want to be stopped arbitrarily because of the color of their skin. -
Jury Duty, Practice Pointers
Best Secrets Of Voir Dire (Or Why You Didn't Get Picked As A Juror)
How do you know which people are right for your case? -
Jury Duty, Women's Issues
Breastfeeding Mom Told To Pump Next To Courthouse Urinal
This is absolutely disgusting. Shouldn't courthouse employees know better? -
Jury Duty, Litigators, Social Media, Sponsored Content
Common Ethical Issues To Consider When Researching Jurors And Witnesses On Social Media
The gray areas of social media research.
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Jury Duty
JPMorgan Found A Way To Make Jury Duty Even More Miserable
Taking “Twelve Angry Men” a bit too literally. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.24.17
* SEC probe into whether or not Yahoo had an obligation to disclose data breaches to shareholders could set a precedent, which would mark the first time Yahoo’s been on the cutting edge of something since the mid-90s. [National Law Journal]
* Dewey know anyone looking to get out of jury duty? [Law360]
* If you’re trying to become a fugitive from justice, dream a little bigger than a Quality Inn in New Jersey. [NY Post]
* The top Biglaw firms continue to pull away from the rest of the pack. This isn’t so much news as a quarterly reminder that the rich get richer. [The Am Law Daily]
* Britain’s Supreme Court blocks Theresa May’s effort to trigger Article 50 without a parliamentary vote. Because breaking up is hard to do. [BBC]
* A bevy of laws to criminalize peaceful protests coming soon. At least the death of American democracy is still running on schedule. [The Intercept]
* Finally someone willing to stand up to the tyranny of snow globes. [Clickhole]
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Celebrities
Taylor Swift Had A Better Time At Jury Duty Than You Did
Doing her part as America's sweetheart, T.Swift was happy to take selfies and sign autographs for fellow jurors. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.15.16
* Ultimately, voters will decide how big a deal Hillary’s emails really are. [Huffington Post]
* If you still have your panties in a bunch over Justice Ginsburg’s comments about Donald Trump, maybe you aren’t paying enough attention to history. [Washington Post]
* Guess what? Your paralegals hate you. [The Lawyer]
* Ironman, err, Robert Downey Jr., is serving as an alternate on a jury. [Law and More]
* When in time are judicial opinions, as a matter of grammar? [LawProse]
* The RNC just ended #NeverTrump. [Slate]
* A look at Janelle Eveland Belling, the managing director of ediscovery services and strategy at Perkins Coie. [CodeX]
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Jury Duty, Wall Street
Lawyer Asks Jurors Not To Lump Client Of 'Average Intelligence' In With Other Ex-Barclays Traders Accused Of Libor Manipulation
Jonathan Mathew is not having the greatest of days. -
Crime, Jury Duty
Criminally Yours: Don't Strike That Juror!
We don't need fewer peremptories in jury selection. We need more judges who take Batson challenges seriously. -
Jury Duty, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Finally Thinks Something Is Racist In America... Except For Clarence Thomas
In Foster, the Court showed that Batson is still good law, and in so doing highlighted exactly why Batson is such a weak case.