Recent Articles from ANNE REED
Unforgettable Juror Art
Deliberations collects juror art, as you may know — drawings and photographs made by real people on jury duty, gathered in what we cheerfully call the "American Gallery of Juror Art." The collection is meant to show both the light side of jury duty and also the often-missed depth and talent of many jurors. Much […]
When They Don't See What You See
A recent study highlights what might be the most important thing lawyers and clients miss about how juries will react to their cases. The same evidence that makes you angry at the other side might make jurors angry at you. I'll show you how it works. Here's a fact about health care. Ready? Many people […]
Look At The Jury Expert Now
The Jury Expert doesn't need me anymore, but I'll keep posting about new issues anyway. Back in May 2008 when the first on-line issue of the American Society of Trial Consultants' bimonthly journal came out, it got 500 hits, and if Deliberations wasn't the only blog to write about it, it was one of a […]
Just The Facts
What does it take to get a jury in a traditionally conservative area to award $49 million in a personal injury case? San Francisco lawyer Randall Scarlett just did it, for a 21-year-old client who suffered traumatic brain injury in a car accident. Big plaintiffs' verdicts are often criticized as the product of runaway emotion, […]
Mark Bennett's Simple Rules For Jury Selection
We love simple rules here at Deliberations, and so I'm only a little embarrassed that I'm not the blogger who came up with a set of simple rules for better jury selection. Mark Bennett is, and he's building it as we speak. Here's Mark's "Simple Rules" post; he updates the links as he posts detail […]
‘Restitution’ a book you can actually use
Does a civil trial lawyer need a book about restitution? “Federal Criminal Restitution,” a new handbook by Catherine M. Goodwin, Jay E. Grenig, and Nathan A. Fishbach, turned out to be the most useful book to hit our office in a long time. “Federal restitution has become an increasingly important issue at sentencing for most […]
They're Out There
The New York Times had a nice article yesterday on conspiracy theorists, especially those who believe the Apollo moon landings were a government hoax. It's a good reminder that — unlike all the things they believe are out there — conspiracy theorists really are out there, and on juries. You know about the most widely […]
What Have You Missed?
The better the trial lawyer, the better her sense of what experiences have been important to other people — that is, to jurors. But we all have blind spots. One of mine, it turns out, was Michael Jackson. I know I risk losing subscribers when I say this, but I missed him entirely, or more […]
A Good Juror Story
The news is full of “bad juror” stories. It’s not that there are so many of them; but when they do come up, they bounce all over the media. The bored juror who went AWOL in Oregon last month hit the ABA Journal on May 20, and was still making headlines in England on Friday. […]
Why Are Mean Women So Fascinating?
The most interesting thing about the New York Times article on female bullies in the workplace . . . is how interesting it apparently is. Four days after it appeared on line and three days after the print edition, it's still among the ten most E-mailed articles on the entire Times site. Every other article […]
And Now, The Rest Of The Judge's-Mother-On-The-Jury Story
About a year ago I wrote a post about a Wisconsin court of appeals opinion affirming a small-town trial judge who refused to strike his own mother from the jury for cause. The post was fun to write, and I remember it fondly because other than my Blawg Review post, it's the only post here […]
Sleepers
Two jurors who fell asleep have been replaced at an Ohio financial fraud trial heavy in testimony about bookkeeping and check-writing. That's the opening line from an Associated Press story out of Akron yesterday, but unless you're following that particular trial (of former executives of Evergreen Homes), the main thing that's newsworthy is that these […]
Legal News
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
- Iranian nationals charged cyber campaign targeting U.S. Companies
WLJ People
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