JURORS AND DAMAGE APPRAISALS
One of the better blogs relating to trial issues is The Persuasive Litigator: http://www.persuasivelitigator.com/ Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm recently wrote about jurors and their calculations regarding civil damages in this blog. He notes that a recent study demonstrated that people on the jury generally move from a story, to a general sense of damages and then to a specific number. It has already been rather well established that offering a number, acting as a psychological anchor, plays an important role in their arriving…