TThere is a bit of alchemy, and always a leap of faith, involved in voir dire, but lawyers rely upon proxies to dramatically reduce the amount of guess-work involved in selecting a favorable jury…

The odds seem stacked against you: A criminal defense case and a box full of conservative-minded jurors…

Individuals approach complex tasks with a set of operational shortcuts—ways of thinking and doing that guide active decision-making and prevent us from having to reinvent the wheel at each new task…

Being an effective trial lawyer requires that you build trust with the court, your adversary, and, especially, the jury. When you ask a jury to see the facts of a case, you aren’t just asking the jury to make a leap in logic. You are asking jurors to make a leap in trust—to see the facts of the case as you want the jury to see them…

Uncovering Unconscious Motives: Recognizing “Implicit Bias” to Ensure a Fair Trial, Jeffrey L. Goodman, Max Maharry, and Richard Wiener, Ph.D., The Nebraska Lawyer, January/February 2019, Vol. 22, No. 1…