I was speaking with a prominent plaintiff personal injury attorney in Seattle recently about the remote jury trials that are taking place in King County.
We are almost one year into the COVID-19 pandemic and Zoom (referring to both the specific platform and generically to all videoconferencing) has become the
In the fall of 2020, King County Superior Court (Seattle) Judge David Keenan presided over a 15-day Zoom jury trial, making him one of only
Remote trials represent a new frontier for most attorneys. As courthouses across the country cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, many are offering the option of
In the early months of the pandemic, most of our clients chose to postpone their mock trials and focus groups to later dates when it
Courts across the country continue to struggle with the logjam that has been created by the pandemic. After months of no trials early in the
We have all experienced the glitches and minor delays that come with videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom. No matter how good the internet connection, they
With the late Fall surge in COVID-19 around the country, many courts are again having to consider the option of conducting remote trials through a
I wanted to begin this column with the observation that the election is finally over, but your perspective on that probably depends on your political
This week, Sound Jury Consulting launched its CleverEd Continuing Legal Education program. This is an incredible resource for litigators to earn CLE credits online while
Millennial and Gen Z jurors. If you are a defense attorney, your blood pressure might already be rising at the mere mention of the emergence
As some of our readers may already know, King County Superior Courts in Seattle, Washington have resumed civil jury trials with a novel strategy for
The concept of anchors for damage awards at trial is nothing new. The research on the importance of anchors goes back decades. Numerous studies have
In all of my days working predominantly for the defense in civil cases, my clients have openly longed for “intelligent” jurors who they believed would
One of the first memorable studies that I read about jury psychology in graduate school was the 1997 study by Neil Feigenson and colleagues on
This past week, King County Superior Courts in Seattle, Washington laid out their plans for the resumption of civil jury trials. In an effort to
Yesterday, Seattle Public Schools announced that remote learning will continue indefinitely, meaning public school kids are not going back to school in the fall. A
“I don’t think it would make a difference at all. I’m not even convinced this whole coronavirus thing is real. I don’t know anyone who’s
This week, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Above the Law about the research we have been conducting on how the pandemic impacts
It is the question on every litigator’s mind: What impact, if any, will the pandemic have on jury decision-making once trials resume? Will there be
