Jurors can grasp complex business issues

Article Abstract:

The notion that lay juries cannot understand the evidence in complex litigation is false. Former Chief Justice Warren Burger questioned the ability of lay juries to understand technical evidence 10 years ago and in 1980 the 3rd Circuit held in In re Japanese Electrical Litigation that a litigant's right to due process took precedence over the jury trial guarantee. Jurors can be helped to understand complex evidence by being allowed to take notes, to ask witnesses questions, to receive key exhibit notebooks and to take written instructions with them to deliberations.

Jury, Juries

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Visuals are vital factor in jury test; nonverbal elements of a case frequently are overlooked when conducting pretrial research

Article Abstract:

Visual communication media are of increased importance in trial practice, for most trial lawyers believe the proposition that people process information by visual means. At the pretrial stage, attorneys rarely test the persuasive efficacy of case presentation techniquesbut should perform such tests. Experienced trial lawyers understand the influence of graphic evidence is contextual. Integrated pretrial research should unify should unify the testing of case-issue and visual-presentation methods. This approach will result in findings predicting in-court results.

Laws, regulations and rules, Trial practice, Pre-trial procedure, Pretrial procedure

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Jurors' 'frameworks' critical in 'Goliath' litigation; in trials involving corporations, jurors favor the side that can help them grasp the evidence

Article Abstract:

Jurors in complex, corporate cases have to cognitively analyze complex facts, and trial counsel has special considerations in selecting jurors, developing trial strategy, as well as preparing witnesses and exhibits. Jurors in suits where both parties are corporate entities go through the stages of detachment, exploration, resistance, and interpretation in information procesing, amd trial counsel must take this into consideration. Demonstrative exhibits which can be used fall into the categories of charts and illustrations, models and animation.

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