Learn Winning Trial Lawyer Strategies with Jury Analyst All too often, both experienced and inexperienced trial lawyers are not adequately prepared for voir dire and jury selection. I have seen many just wing it! You cannot be ill-prepared at such a crucial stage. It’s the preparation and planning that you put into voir dire…
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Invaluable Jury Selection and Voir Dire Strategies Jury selection is the most important part of a trial, there is no doubt in my mind that ineffective jury selection could lose you your case. If you don’t have a completely fair and impartial jury panel, you may very well have already lost. It is…
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Busting Old World Myths About Jury Selection Jury selection is the most important part of a trial! If you don’t have a completely fair and impartial jury panel, you may have already lost your case. The purpose of voir dire and the jury selection process is two-fold: To facilitate the identification and…
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Effective Active Listening Skills for Trial Lawyers “You cannot learn anything about a juror or a jury panel if you’re talking. You need to be listening at least 80% of the time or you’re missing out…you’re not learning anything.” –Robert T. Eglet Listening Skills Are Crucial In Trial Communication is a two-way…
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My Personal Story People often ask me how I got into my profession, and the best way I can put it is that I stumbled upon it, by accident really. I was 13 years old, being raised by a single mother with an 8th grade education, who worked two jobs making minimum wage to…
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Plan Your Playbook for Voir Dire and Jury Selection In preparing for voir dire and jury selection it is vitally important that you have a plan. The plan I follow I call my “playbook.” —Robert Eglet Preparing Your Playbook: Initial Steps I prepare a playbook for each and every case. It’s a very specific…
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