By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm:(Shared from The Pulse, Holland & Hart LLP)
Your Trial Message, published by Your Trial Message, focuses on trial advocacy with an emphasis on jury trials. The blog covers topics such as jury selection strategies, including the use of strikes and voir dire techniques, the role of jurors and mock jurors, and the impact of narrative and storytelling in trial settings. It also addresses the influence of regulatory credibility and settlement considerations within trial narratives. The content often explores practical and psychological aspects of courtroom dynamics to assist legal professionals in effectively presenting their cases to juries.
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)
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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…
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: The courtroom had all the usual elements: oak paneling, parties, a judge, a jury box, a flag. Only in the jury box, instead of live human jurors, there were three large digital monitors on which appeared…