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Voir dire
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Employment Law Lookout
Cultural Flashpoints Vidcast: Conversations That Matter
Episode 06: From Voir Dire to Verdict: Jury Consultants in Flashpoints Cases Hosted by Sam Schwartz-Fenwick with special guest Lynn Kappelman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL5lLnyfiTg What happens when a trial involves issues that…
Your Trial Message
Counter-Rehabilitate: 6 Ways to Make Your Cause Challenge Stick
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…
Your Trial Message
Are Judges Making it Harder or Easier for Jurors to Admit Bias?
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…
Your Trial Message
Don’t Just Ask IF a Potential Juror Can “Set Aside” Bias, Ask Them HOW They’ll Do It
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…
Your Trial Message
Oral Voir Dire: Know Your Purpose
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: How effectively does counsel and the court question potential jurors as part of the selection process? New research in the journal Language in Society (Clayman & Fox, 2025) provides…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Blog
PA Supreme Court: Defendant Failed to Present Sufficient Evidence to Require Voir Dire Question on Whether Jurors Will Always Believe Alleged Child Abuse Victims
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Smith, affirming a trial court's broad discretion in refusing a specific jury selection…
EvidenceProf Blog
Supreme Court of Indiana Finds No Issue With Seating a Juror Who Said His PTSD Might Cause Him To “Zone Out”
By Colin Miller
Should a trial judge excuse a prospective juror who says that photographic evidence of the victim's body might cause him to “zone out” and make it hard to pay attention…
Drug & Device Law
Avoid Getting Into Trouble over Internet Research about Prospective Jurors
By Bexis
At a recent seminar, one of the sessions was a nuts-and-bolts discussion of conducting Internet, mostly social media, research into prospective jurors for voir dire purposes. It was quite interesting…
Stritmatter Law Blog
So You’re Gonna Be a Juror
Many of us have experienced it: being summoned for jury duty. The first feeling is usually anxiety, but then I see the dates. It turns out our firm has a…
The Velvet Hammer
Voir Dire zoom from Hawaii
Postscript: this is from my trial diary of prophylaxis class action against seattle children’s hospital. Trial day 3 6:00 Cockadoodle doo. Wake up. 6:25 Get up and make bed.6:45 White T.…