Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

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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We have clients who don’t look like or who are not like most of the Caucasians onour jury panel. This represents a challenge in securing a fair trial for our client. There are many ways to deal with this, but I offer the following from an actual trial involving a civil plaintiff. He spoke broken English, had a full religious beard and was a member of the Sikh religion. He was a naturalized citizen from India where he had been…

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At a recent trial lawyer’s convention I attended in Boston I wrote down some ideas speakers suggested regarding jury selection. One lawyer from New Mexico gave a great talk about questions which put the jurors in the shoes of your client and help them become involved in the situation so they have personal concern. In defending a client accused of murder when she shot an ex husband who had come into her home at night she asked questions like: :…

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