Lawyer Training Amid Vanishing Jury Trial
Lawyers might be able to do something to recover the "vanishing civil jury trial" in federal courts, according to three U.S. district court judges who also discussed initiatives in their courtrooms to help to train young trial attorneys.
June 22, 2015 at 02:00 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Texas Lawyer
Lawyers might be able to do something to recover the “vanishing civil jury trial” in federal courts, according to three U.S. district court judges.
Judges Barbara Lynn, Nancy Atlas and Xavier Rodriguez, speaking on June 18 at the State Bar of Texas annual meeting in San Antonio, also discussed initiatives in their courtrooms to help to train young trial lawyers who have fewer trials to handle.
Rodriguez, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, said that in the “heyday of modern litigation” in the 1960s and 1970s, about 15 percent of cases went to jury trials. Today, the number has plummeted to 1.2 or 1.9 percent, he said. The greatest decline is seen in personal injury cases, he said, noting that tort reform caused that trend.
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