How Plummeting Trust is Affecting the Jury Room
Susan Cain, in her book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, discusses the difficulties of working in a career field that values extroversion over introversion and ...
When Legal Language Gets in the Way
In a recent project, we watched a group of jurors get tangled up in the verdict questions and the legal definitions that were supposed to guide them. Several of them said out loud that they simply ...
Group Versus Individual Damage Amounts
Group v Individual Damage Amounts: How case types affect individual and group decisions One of the advantages of a mock trial is you are able to see both individual and group final verdicts. But how ...
Finding Fairness in Jury Selection
After a recent jury selection in Cook County, I walked away feeling more convinced than ever that this part of a trial is one of the most important. We call it “jury selection,” but it’s not really ...