Speaking with jurors post-trial can yield invaluable lessons 
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: October 18, 2011
Tags: jurors, jury, witnesses
After spending the length of a trial staring at a group of strangers who hold the fate of a client in their hands, the last thing lawyers may want to do is sit down and chat with the jury.
But getting jurors’ take on the trial – from the persuasiveness of a closing argument to the credence of testimony – can be invaluable.
Trial lawyers learn how to read a face
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: January 28, 2010
Tags: juries, microexpressions, witnesses
What trial lawyer wouldn’t want to be able to peer into the mind of a witness, a juror, their own client – if only for a flash?
The first group of trial lawyers in the country learned how to do just that in a seminar on “microexpressions” at the end of last year.
ABA panel tackles ‘ethical minefields’
By:
Brendan Kearney
Published: August 2, 2009
Tags: ethics, witnesses
What do you do when you suspect, but don’t know for sure, that your client is lying?
A panel discussion, “Avoiding Ethical Minefields When Preparing and Examining Witnesses,” addressed that issue, among others, at the American Bar Association annual meeting in Chicago last week.
Do’s and don’ts of using videotape to prepare witnesses for trial
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: June 30, 2009
Tags: videotape, witnesses
A new study has stirred up a debate about the effectiveness of showing witnesses videotape of themselves to prepare them for trial.
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