Medical Malpractice or Medical Mismanagement?

The Deliberations blog points us to a post from David Swanner at the South Carolina Trial Law blog. Mr. Swanner’s post points to the fact that medical malpractice trials are becoming harder to win, and suggests the following way to help the jury understand the case:
Don’t call it “medical malpractice” – call it “medical mismanagement.” [...]

Has a prospective juror heard about your case? Strike ‘em!

Sometimes, as we pick a jury, we run across someone on the panel who has heard about our case. This happened to me with several jurors in my last trial. The jurors who had heard about the incident were reluctant to really say everything they remembered hearing, but I really had the feeling that they [...]

Verdict makes news – again

I blogged the other day about a jury trial I won in Henry County Illinois. There is another article about the trial and verdict in the Kewanee Star-Courier today. This one doesn’t need registration, but it has been very difficult to load for some reason.
(Howard Zimmerle is a personal injury attorney in Rock Island and [...]

Jury selection – do I pick more men or women?

Picking a jury is one of the most discussed and agonized-over topics in all of trial practice. One of the big questions is demographics – what types of people should be on the jury?
I’ve always believed that pure demographics (age, sex, income, race) don’t help much, if at all, when picking a jury. Many lawyers [...]