Lawyers USA Online » Trial Strategy http://lawyersusaonline.com Your Business Partner Wed, 23 May 2012 20:49:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Study: Jury pool racial makeup has effect on convictions  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/25/study-finds-%e2%80%98striking%e2%80%99-difference-in-conviction-rates-based-on-jury-pools-racial-makeup/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/25/study-finds-%e2%80%98striking%e2%80%99-difference-in-conviction-rates-based-on-jury-pools-racial-makeup/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:39 +0000 Sylvia Hsieh http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/25/study-finds-%e2%80%98striking%e2%80%99-difference-in-conviction-rates-based-on-jury-pools-racial-makeup/ A study has revealed that the racial makeup of the pool from which juries are selected influences conviction rates – and that having even one African-American member in the pool from which a jury is drawn nearly eliminates the difference.

The
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/25/study-finds-%e2%80%98striking%e2%80%99-difference-in-conviction-rates-based-on-jury-pools-racial-makeup/feed/ 0 Can the lawyers ‘script’ direct party-to-party contact?  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/19/direct-party-to-party-contact-can-the-lawyers-%e2%80%98script%e2%80%99-the-conversation/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/19/direct-party-to-party-contact-can-the-lawyers-%e2%80%98script%e2%80%99-the-conversation/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:36:56 +0000 W. William Hodes http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/19/direct-party-to-party-contact-can-the-lawyers-%e2%80%98script%e2%80%99-the-conversation/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/19/direct-party-to-party-contact-can-the-lawyers-%e2%80%98script%e2%80%99-the-conversation/feed/ 0 Smartphone data more important in litigation  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/19/smartphone-data-more-important-in-litigation/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/19/smartphone-data-more-important-in-litigation/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:46:01 +0000 Correy Stephenson http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/19/smartphone-data-more-important-in-litigation/ Smartphones are increasingly becoming not just useful tools for lawyers on the go, but potentially important factors in litigation.

Requesting smartphone data as part of electronic discovery “is something lawyers should think about both from an offensive and defensive perspective,” advised
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/19/smartphone-data-more-important-in-litigation/feed/ 0 Trial strategy: Should you let jurors handle the evidence?  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/13/trial-strategy-should-you-let-jurors-handle-the-evidence/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/13/trial-strategy-should-you-let-jurors-handle-the-evidence/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:38:30 +0000 Correy Stephenson http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/13/trial-strategy-should-you-let-jurors-handle-the-evidence/ A recent study by the University of Notre Dame suggests that humans learn and retain information differently if their sense of touch is engaged.

Trial consultant Douglas Keene said this means that the value of touching a piece of evidence
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/13/trial-strategy-should-you-let-jurors-handle-the-evidence/feed/ 0 Redefining expert witness credibility for juries http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/09/redefining-expert-witness-credibility/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/09/redefining-expert-witness-credibility/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:53:54 +0000 Richard Gabriel http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/09/redefining-expert-witness-credibility/ Juries routinely dismiss expert testimony due to credibility problems, incomprehensibility, or simply because it is cancelled out by another expert’s testimony.

This leads to a number of important questions for the attorney and the expert in presenting testimony at trial. What
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/09/redefining-expert-witness-credibility/feed/ 0 Attorneys consider pursuing e-discovery for smaller cases  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/06/attorneys-consider-e-discovery-for-smaller-cases/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/06/attorneys-consider-e-discovery-for-smaller-cases/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:56:13 +0000 Jack Zemlicka http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/06/attorneys-consider-e-discovery-for-smaller-cases/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/06/attorneys-consider-e-discovery-for-smaller-cases/feed/ 0 Trial lawyers find new ways to use the iPad to help try cases  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/04/trial-lawyers-find-new-ways-to-use-the-ipad/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/04/trial-lawyers-find-new-ways-to-use-the-ipad/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:18:31 +0000 Sylvia Hsieh http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/04/trial-lawyers-find-new-ways-to-use-the-ipad/ Trial lawyers keep finding new ways, some expected and others surprising, to use the iPad to settle cases, prepare for litigation and try cases.

The big change is that lawyers have moved from using the iPad purely for content consumption to
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/04/04/trial-lawyers-find-new-ways-to-use-the-ipad/feed/ 0 Md. bill would limit number of experts at med-mal trials  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/03/06/md-bill-would-limit-number-of-experts-at-med-mal-trials/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/03/06/md-bill-would-limit-number-of-experts-at-med-mal-trials/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:40:00 +0000 Steve Lash http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/03/06/md-bill-would-limit-number-of-experts-at-med-mal-trials/ Advocates for patients and doctors in Maryland battled last week over legislation that would limit to two the number of medical experts each side would be permitted to have testify at medical malpractice trials.

Patients’ attorney George S. Tolley III told
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/03/06/md-bill-would-limit-number-of-experts-at-med-mal-trials/feed/ 0 Illinois courts to allow cameras in pilot project  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/01/illinois-courts-to-allow-cameras-in-pilot-project/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/01/illinois-courts-to-allow-cameras-in-pilot-project/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:51:30 +0000 Correy Stephenson http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/01/illinois-courts-to-allow-cameras-in-pilot-project/ Trial courts in Illinois will allow cameras to document proceedings as part of a pilot project that launched Jan. 24.

Previously, the state allowed cameras in appellate courtrooms and in the state’s highest court.

But the Illinois Supreme Court
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/01/illinois-courts-to-allow-cameras-in-pilot-project/feed/ 0 Prosecutors seek to check criminal history of jurors  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/01/27/prosecutors-seek-to-check-criminal-history-of-jurors/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/01/27/prosecutors-seek-to-check-criminal-history-of-jurors/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:06:39 +0000 Sylvia Hsieh http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/01/27/prosecutors-seek-to-check-criminal-history-of-jurors/ Prosecutors in New Jersey are asking a court for the birth dates of all potential jurors for purposes of running criminal history checks on them.

In a motion argued in New Jersey Superior Court, the Acting Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is
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