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November 10, 2008 | National Law Journal

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November 24, 2003 | National Law Journal

2003 NLJ 250 Rankings 201-250

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August 25, 2008 | Law.com

What's Your Juror Taking?

As the percentage of Americans taking various medications skyrockets, some jury consultants and lawyers have begun asking potential jurors what kinds of medications they are taking. They're concerned about potential side effects associated with medications that can affect a person's ability to concentrate, sit for long periods of time and otherwise act as jurors.
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August 09, 2007 | Law.com

Supplemental Jury Questionnaires Help Sound Out Biases

In the recent fraud trial of Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black, potential jurors answered a 45-page questionnaire that even asked for their views "about people from Canada." Lawyers and trial consultants say written questionnaires are becoming an increasingly common way to spot biased jurors, and can be particularly helpful in highly publicized cases and those involving sensitive information. And questionnaires are getting more popular thanks to a growing number of studies that endorse their use.
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May 06, 2008 | Law.com

Countries Get Assist Setting Up Jury Systems

Many of the lawyers Arizona attorney 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. Georgia, the former Soviet satellite, is also soon implementing a jury system, while Russia is taking a new look at its system. American lawyers, judges, legal scholars -- and even jurors ? have been traveling to those countries to share their experience.
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August 14, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Attorneys' new source for vetting jurors: MySpace

In last year's federal terrorism case against once-suspected "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla, a team of defense lawyers were sitting at a back table in the Miami federal courtroom with their laptops searching online all the jurors when they discovered one had lied on her jury questionnaire.The woman, a Miami-area government employee who has not been identified, said she had no personal experience in the criminal system.
9 minute read
November 04, 2008 | National Law Journal

2008 NLJ 250 Chart 201-250

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September 03, 2008 | Daily Report Online

What's your juror taking

As the percentage of Americans taking various medications skyrockets, some jury consultants and lawyers have begun asking potential jurors what kinds of medications they are taking.They're concerned about potential side effects associated with medications that can affect a person's ability to concentrate, sit for long periods of time and otherwise act as jurors.
9 minute read
August 26, 2008 | Law.com

What's Your Juror Taking?

As the percentage of Americans taking various medications skyrockets, some jury consultants and lawyers have begun asking potential jurors what kinds of medications they are taking. They're concerned about potential side effects that can affect things like concentration and the ability to sit for long periods. A secondary, strategic reason for asking is to bounce jurors they don't want, using medications as an excuse. But the practice is controversial, raising issues of juror privacy.
9 minute read
August 09, 2007 | National Law Journal

Supplemental Jury Questionnaires Help Sound Out Biases

In the recent fraud trial of Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black, potential jurors answered a 45-page questionnaire that even asked for their views "about people from Canada." Lawyers and trial consultants say written questionnaires are becoming an increasingly common way to spot biased jurors, and can be particularly helpful in highly publicized cases and those involving sensitive information. And questionnaires are getting more popular thanks to a growing number of studies that endorse their use.
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