David F. Johnson co-authored a paper entitled “Voir Dire (In a Post COVID World)” with Jason Smith of the Law Offices of Jason Smith for the State Bar of Texas’s Business Disputes Course, held in Austin, Texas, on September 15-16, 2022. The paper covered the waterfront of voir dire topics in Texas litigation, including preservation of error, selecting the array, size of the jury, jury shuffle, questions to the venire, comments by venire members, challenges for cause, preemptory challenges, and Batson issues. Most trial attorneys will say that selecting a jury is the most important part of a trial. This paper provides important guidance to trial attorneys on what is allowed or not allowed in the selection process and what is necessary to preserve error.
