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August 13, 2012 | National Law Journal

Political turmoil makes work for lawyers

Wisconsin's attorneys have been contributing money and effort on behalf of the state's warring factions.
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August 06, 2007 | National Law Journal

Lawyers plying jurors with questionnaires

Written questionnaires are becoming an increasingly common way to spot biased jurors, according to trial consultants. The questionnaires can be particularly helpful in highly publicized cases and a growing number of studies have endorsed the use of these questionnaires, helping boost their acceptance with judges. As trials are getting more publicity, said jury consultant Anne Reed, juror questionnaires are a good way for lawyers and judges to gauge the effects of pretrial publicity.
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May 05, 2008 | National Law Journal

Jury system gaining in worldwide practice

Many of the lawyers Robert Precht has been working with lately are veterans, with one exception: They don't know anything about juries. The reason: they're based in Japan, which will start its version of a jury-based system in May 2009. Currently, the trial system is mostly based on written records, and there are no jurors. As the jury system expands around the world, American lawyers, judges, and legal scholars are travelling to foreign countries, sharing lessons learned in the U.S. jury system.
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August 10, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers: Questionnaires weed out biased jurors

IN THE RECENT FRAUD TRIAL of Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black, potential jurors answered a 45-page questionnaire that even asked them their views "about people from Canada." The 18-page questionnaire for producer Phil Spector's ongoing murder trial asked jurors to rate their feelings about statements such as: "Celebrities and high profile people tend to have bad tempers and act aggressively.
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January 02, 2012 | National Law Journal

MOVERS

Frederick Hoops III joins Dykema Gossett's taxation and estates practice group as senior counsel to the firm's Grand Rapids, Mich., office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
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May 05, 2008 | Law.com

Countries Get Assist Setting Up Jury Systems

A number of American legal experts are sharing lessons learned in the U.S. jury system.
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May 05, 2008 | The Recorder

Countries Get Assist Setting Up Jury Systems

A number of American legal experts are sharing lessons learned in the U.S. jury system.
5 minute read
February 20, 2008 | National Law Journal

Two nominated for tax court

President Bush has tapped a U.S. Department of Justice attorney David Gustafson and a Senate committee lawyer to fill two vacancies on the U.S. Tax Court.
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October 13, 2003 | National Law Journal

$94 million crane-collapse award erased

A milwaukee appellate court has overturned a $94 million punitive damages award�one of Wisconsin's highest �and raised the bar for plaintiffs' lawyers seeking to recover punitive damages in personal injury cases.
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August 20, 2010 | New York Law Journal

NY Firm, Co-Counsel See $29 Miillion Fee Snatched Away

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