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All Jury Selection Is Local … Hyper-Local
U.S. District Judges Trina Thompson and Beth Freeman, both of whom sit in the Northern District of California, discussed their approaches to jury selection last week and the differences, though subtle, were significant.A Jam-Packed Week of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs
A trial team at Winston & Strawn brought home a defense verdict last week from federal court in Waco, Texas, for U.S. Well Services LLC in a patent showdown with electric fracking rival Halliburton Energy Services Inc.View more book results for the query "*"
Strategy #2 for Dealing With 'Outsized' Damages Awards: Rethink Jury Selection
Jamie Laird, the president of Laird Trial Consulting LLC, says trial teams need to account for the damages tendencies of jurors early in the process.Strategy #1 for Dealing With 'Outsized' Damages Awards: Focus Courts on the Experts
With the uptick in $10 million-plus verdicts, Wilmer's Bill Lee thinks lawyers should be focusing courts on consistently applying Daubert to challenges to expert damages testimony.The Post-Pandemic Uptick in BIG Damages Awards (and What to Do About it)
Bill Lee of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and Jamie Laird, the trial consultant he estimates he's taken to trial with him 50 times over the past decade-and-a-half, see a current rise in jury damages awards that mirrors what occurred after the 2007/08 financial crisis—and they have some ideas about what to do about it.