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Adapting to Jurors

More Arguments Aren’t Always Better: Know the Reduced Average Effect

  Imagine an attorney going over her notes before oral argument. She already has a solid set of reasons lined up and then decides to add one more argument that has been a little controversial within the team: some like it, but most think it is weak. Flash forward to the judge’s hearing on the […]

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Account for the New Low in What Jurors Think of Health Insurers

By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: In Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” the final act is brought by the spectral Ghost of Christmas Future who shows the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge the vision of those he mistreated in life celebrating his death after he is gone. This Christmas, that part of the seasonal story might be hitting

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See Your Case from the Jury’s Eyes: My Time in the Box

Guest post by Josh Haby: When I received my jury summons a month or so ago, I was elated. But the feeling was brief, as I quickly concluded my service would likely end as quickly as it would begin. I’m a Litigation Consultant, I work for a law firm, I studied Psychology and Law, and

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Juror Polarization: As the Political Season Ends, Understand It’s Not Just a Season

By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: As I write this, it is finally and mercifully Election Day, 2024. For many of us on the edges of our seats awaiting the returns, we might be considering the question, “What brought us to this?” The answer is that recent technological and cultural forces have powerfully changed American life in

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Trial Soon? Expect Some Jurors to Have Electoral Stress

By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: I know, I know, there’s a very good chance that every election in your lifetime has been billed as the “most important election in your lifetime.” But when it comes to next week’s election, that hyperbole just might be justified — at least based on the way the country seems to

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