Daniel Cooper

Daniel Cooper

September 24, 2020 | New York Law Journal

Addressing the "New Normal" for Jurors and Jury Pools

The pandemic pause in civil jury trials presents the opportunity for trial counsel to take a hard look at their pre-pandemic strategic assumptions, allowing time to re-examine and research the thoughts and feelings of the 'new normal' juror and the changed characteristics of the COVID-19 jury pool.

By Douglas Schoen, Carly Cooperman and Daniel Cooper

10 minute read

April 20, 2020 | New York Law Journal

COVID-19 Cannot Be the Death Knell for the American Jury Trial

How are we going to assure that the touchstone of our judicial system remains uncompromised as the fundamental guarantee of equal justice and protection from government overreach?

By Richard Emery and Daniel Cooper

8 minute read

January 05, 2015 | New York Law Journal

'Ordinary Skill in the Art' at Patent Jury Trials

Colleen Tracy James and Daniel Cooper write: To help jurors distinguish the "normal or ordinary" from the "unusual or extraordinary," it seems that identifying a set of decision-making influences, practices, biases or tendencies of a "person of ordinary skill in the art" might be useful. An effort to identify such a matrix might provide a useful guide to jurors faced with the challenge of coming to an understanding of what, why and how a POSA would have made his or her choices at the time of the invention.

By Colleen Tracy James and Daniel Cooper

11 minute read

January 02, 2015 | New York Law Journal

'Ordinary Skill in the Art' at Patent Jury Trials

Colleen Tracy James and Daniel Cooper write: To help jurors distinguish the "normal or ordinary" from the "unusual or extraordinary," it seems that identifying a set of decision-making influences, practices, biases or tendencies of a "person of ordinary skill in the art" might be useful. An effort to identify such a matrix might provide a useful guide to jurors faced with the challenge of coming to an understanding of what, why and how a POSA would have made his or her choices at the time of the invention.

By Colleen Tracy James and Daniel Cooper

11 minute read