Analysis

What Social Media Can Tell You About Your Jury

"It's that outpouring of emotion that I am particularly interested in finding, because those people tend to be the most strident in deliberations and frequently for the plaintiff," Jill Leibold, a senior jury consulting adviser with IMS Legal Strategies, said.
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Analysis

How Kramer Levin's Patent Trial Team Approaches Teaching Tech to Juries

Paul Andre, Liza Kobialka and James Hannah of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, who have won three trials in the past 10 months, say trying to oversimplify technology for juries is a mistake.
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Q&A

How Do You Get Experience Leading an MDL Without Experience Leading an MDL?

Litigation Daily explores the chicken/egg question of how plaintiffs lawyers secure leadership appointments in multidistrict litigation with three Seeger Weiss lawyers: Parvin Aminolroaya, Jennifer Scullion and Shauna Itri.
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Webcast

Navigating the Ethical and Efficient Use of AI in Legal Practice

Join the webcast and learn how to harness the potential of AI in your legal practice while ensuring that you remain compliant and protect your clients' confidentiality.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Quinn Emanuel's Michael Carlinsky on Training Associates to Think and Act Like Trial Lawyers

"Unlike full-service firms where a young associate has the option of trying different practices, junior lawyers (and senior lawyers) come to Quinn because they want to be the very best litigators—and want to learn from the best."
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Win for Homeless Veterans On the VA's West LA Campus

After a month-long bench trial earlier this year, Roman Silberfeld and Tommy Du of Robins Kaplan and Mark Rosenbaum of Public Counsel secured a ruling voiding the Veterans Administration's leases of portions of the campus to private entities and requiring the construction of new housing for class members.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigation teams at Wilmer and Kirkland.
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Conversation

Leveling the Playing Field: Insights From Celebrated Women Legal Leaders

Several of the recent Women, Influence, and Power in Law Conference honorees offered thoughts about addressing gender disparities in the legal industry.
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Analysis

A Couple of Early Suggestions From ABOTA's 'A More Perfect Jury' Project

In 2022, the American Board of Trial Advocates Foundation launched a multi-year study in partnership with law schools and the National Center for State Courts aimed at improving the jury selection process. Study participants at UC Law San Francisco discussed their preliminary findings yesterday.
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Best Practices

Trial Tips for a Post-Pandemic World: Persuading the Modern Jury

In the post-pandemic era, two new types of juror behaviors have emerged that every attorney should be aware of: Conspiracism and Safetyism.
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