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MLB-5030

Civil Procedure and Litigation

Lesson 8

Advice for Trial Lawyers about Jury Trials in the Age of COVID-19
Kuslansky, Laurie; Gross, Jeffrey. (2021). Advice for Trial Lawyers about Jury Trials in the Age of COVID-19

The authors argue that trial lawyers must be cognizant of the impact the Covid-19 pandemic had on potential jurors. Pre-pandemic, most people would have suffered some form of trauma in their lives at some point. Now, in the early 2020s, most people have experienced trauma recently, and failing to acknowledge that will put trial lawyers at a disadvantage.

 

Videos:

Lawyer Breaks Down 30 Courtroom Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

WIRED. (Apr 15, 2019). Lawyer Breaks Down 30 Courtroom Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED [Video File]. Retreieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6qm0zXMYU

In this video, Lucy Lang, Executive Director at the Institute of Innovation in Prosecution at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice uses movie and TV courtroom scenes to humorously, but accurately, explain how each scene would have played out in an actual courtroom.