By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm:Every attorney who has conducted voir dire has likely lived through this scenario: After carefully and comprehensively developing a clear reason why a potential juror cannot be fair to you, the other side or the judge just
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm:(Shared from The Pulse, Holland & Hart LLP)
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm:(Shared from The Pulse, Holland & Hart)My experience says “harder,” and that experience is reinforced to some extent, but also challenged to some extent, by an analysis conducted by researchers from UCLA and the Max Planck
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm:(Shared from The Pulse)
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm:
In a recent jury selection — and, pretty much, in every jury selection — I have watched as several on the panel would share various connections, attitudes, or experiences that could quite reasonably point to that person holding
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: In a Los Angeles Civil trial, jurors recently heard arguments over whether some of the largest and most powerful companies in the world engaged in a secret plot — in an echo of the tobacco litigation
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: As the world’s main social media companies are in a California courtroom for a bellwether trial to contest claims that they are facilitating online addictions, courtrooms themselves have flirted and tested online applications, but have thus
By Dr. Ava Zwolinski and Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Americans have long viewed large organizations, both governmental and corporate, with considerable skepticism. In civil litigation, jurors will often perceive corporate defendants through an interpretive lens colored by preconceived biases against corporations
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Whether we are talking about Minnesota or Greenland, or a score of other contested narratives within the field of political conflict, the role of a person’s ideological and partisan leaning has probably never been more salient
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: When it comes to persuasive courtroom communication, there is a three-word piece of advice that is drilled into the marrow of every experienced litigator: Tell a story! Trial lawyers don’t go far without internalizing that advice. When
