Two valuable resources are available for identifying unconscious juror bias and talking to jurors about it in civil cases. First, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington created a video about unconscious bias that is shown
Continue Reading Resources: Jury Selection and Unconscious Bias
By Thomas M. O’Toole, Ph.D and Kevin Boully, Ph.D.Does the color of my tie matter? Are there too many attorneys at our table in the courtroom? Does it matter that I am not a local attorney? These are the kinds
Continue Reading Why Jurors Get Distracted By “Irrelevant” Issues
Fastcase just hosted a webinar during which my co-author, Pat Muscat, and I discuss our Visual Litigation book. Our conversation focused on the THREE Ws:1. WHY use visuals to persuade in pretrial and trial? 2. WHEN can you use visuals?
Continue Reading Webinar Conversation about Litigation Visuals
My new book Roadways to Justice: Reforming the Criminal Justice System was just published and is available now on Amazon. America’s criminal justice system is grappling with multiple issues – police officer-involved deaths and violence; mass incarceration; racial, gender,
Continue Reading Roadways to Justice Book
What follows is a list of six of my favorite books on trial advocacy. These books are not strangers to this blog that concentrates on the art and science of advocacy because I have blogged about most of them before.
Continue Reading 6 FAVORITE BOOKS ON TRIAL ADVOCACY
It is doubtful that once the virus isolation ends that jury selection will ever be the same. King County Superior Court – Seattle, Washington – has been conducting jury selection via Zoom. The Court’s website provides clear instructions for prospective
Continue Reading Court Embraces Remote Jury Selection
Rayvid’s Jury Selection Platform Under Construction
Online jury selection looks like it is here to stay. During the pandemic, jury trials have been conducted remotely via Zoom. In King County, Washington, the Superior Court began with bench trials over Zoom
Continue Reading Remote Jury Selection
Randy Cox, a friend of mine and a trial lawyer in Missoula, MT, sent me an email telling the tale of a Chicago lawyer named Frank Oliver who defended a client against a federal prosecution that hinged on the testimony
Continue Reading Cross-Examining Evil
Professor Ron Carlson
Visual LitigationBook Review
By Ronald L. Carlson
Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Law Emeritus
University of Georgia
Ronald Clark and his coauthors Patrick Muscat and Thomas O’Toole have delivered a gem in the book Visual Litigation: Visual
Continue Reading Visual Litigation–Book Review
By the time you reach closing, jurors will have likely pretty much have made up their minds. If you’ve done your work in jury selection, opening, directs and cross, they hopefully are leaning your way and are rooting for your
Continue Reading How to Develop a Winning Closing Argument
