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Month: May 2009

Thoughts while traveling

Thoughts while traveling

I am in Madeira, Portugal out in the Atlantic ocean near Morocco, Africa so my postings will be brief and perhaps irregular until our return. I’ve also admired and benefited from Victor E. Frankel’s book Man’s search for Meaning. Here are some of rthe observations from this man who survived Jewish concentration camps where so many people were murdered. Why am I sharing these on a legal blog? Because I believe these are thoughts we trial lawyers can benefit and…

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Jury selection

Jury selection

I receive an e-mailnews letter from a publication The Jury Expert at http://www.astcweb.org/public/publication/index.cfmwhich I find has valid helpful advice about jury selection in many of the articles. I get a number of e-mails regarding various services and publications on this subject, but this is one publication I can recommend. It is published by the American Society of Trial Consultants. Frankly, I don’t know how I got on the mailing list and I am not paying for it, but I would…

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Conducting informal focus studies

Conducting informal focus studies

I’ve written about the importance of focus studies and how to conduct them for more accurate feed back information. I’ve recently conducted three "informal" focus studies. That is, these are ones where the group is arranged by a service, the meeting is in our building in a conference room and we arrange the study on an inexpensive and informal basis. I recommend How to do Your Own Jury Research by David Ball with Debra Miller and Artemis Malekpour. Published by…

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