Corporations Are (Made Up of) People, Too: How Corporate Lawyers Are Dealing With Juror Mistrust
The push for corporate responsibility has seemed to occur simultaneously with the pandemic, although it's unclear whether that's been entirely cause-and-effect or if the two simply coincided.
June 24, 2022 at 01:34 PM
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Masks and plexiglass dividers in jury boxes might be on their way out as the pandemic fades, but there's a growing trend among jurors that's only getting stronger: skepticism toward the big, bad, faceless corporation.
That's led many who represent companies to place more of an emphasis on humanizing their clients in an effort to offset jurors' growing David-and-Goliath mindset in cases pitting a large corporation against one person or a smaller entity.
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