“What you see is what you believe” – is true not just of how jurors gauge the veracity of a witness or party’s testimony, but also of how jurors assess ...

 I was assisting with voir dire recently when opposing counsel, questioning the prospective jurors, was told by the judge to “Move along, counselor,” to ...

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 When prospective jurors walk into the courtroom, they only know one thing for sure: the courtroom is His/Her Honor’s private reserve, and the Judge’s word ...

 Time after time, what I discover in jury debriefings is that jurors don’t like being “interrogated” during voir dire. They don’t mind being questioned, ...

 --The average attention span of a human being in 2000: 12 seconds--The average attention span of a human being in 2023: 8.25 seconds --The average ...

 Did you know that the United States is near the top of all countries in terms of anxiety? The U.S. comes in a close second behind Greece in adult stress ...

 The names, acronyms and abbreviations so familiar to you are not to the jurors. You may think that saying, for example, “Acme Building Supply, which ...

 In a courtroom, it isn’t necessarily the attorney with the best facts who wins, but the attorney who best explains the relevance of those facts both to ...

 Telling your witness to look at the jurors during their testimony without teaching them how to do so can be fatal to your case. A scared, anxious witness ...