I have purposely avoided writing about narrative and its importance for years since the industry of jury consulting is oversaturated with folks who advise, “You
Outside of my traditional jury consulting work, I periodically work as an expert for change of venue motions, conducting original research and offering opinions based
One of my favorite non-fiction books of all time is Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. The book tackles every major branch of
There are generally two types of valuable information: 1) new information; and 2) old information conveyed in a new way to help you see it
Last week, I finished a three-week road trip with my family in which we drove over 3,000 miles, camped every night, and saw some of
In the final episode of the first season of Ted Lasso, the Apple TV comedy starring Jason Sudeikis as an American football coach turned English
Kathy was dead set on sticking it to our client, the defendant. She knew in her bones that things had happened just the way the
Back in May, the New York Times published an outstanding piece about the “blah” feeling that many are experiencing as we transition from the pandemic
One of the most important components of jury strategy development is also the one that is talked about the least and that is momentum in
As a die-hard Seahawk fan, I have little trouble finding ways to ridicule other teams, but boy did the Detroit Lions make it easy for
“If you end up saying to yourself, I just don’t know, but it might be, then we’ve met our burden.” While I’ve listened to both
We are living through a particularly difficult time for science. My colleague, Jill, has written in the past about the challenges of persuading juries in
Why do some cases go nuclear while other cases with similar fact patterns or injuries do not? Every jury is different of course, but that
Surprisingly, the task that is often the most difficult to accomplish with witnesses is getting them to a place where they actually hear the question
In January 2012, Facebook conducted a controversial one-week experiment with approximately 700,000 users in order to determine how the Facebook news feed influenced the emotional
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
Lately, we have been doing a lot of reading and writing about emerging “anti-fact” or “anti-expert” views and their impact on trial practice. As we
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
