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		<title>Damages and MedMal Defense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jurors struggle with the hard task of damages determination. You do yourself and your defendant client a disservice by shying away from a quietly confident contradiction of the premises, promises and posturing of the plaintiff's damages case. 
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		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=197</link>
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		<title>Mediation and Jury Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's this legend that persists about pretrial jury research. No one knows how it started. Those who first told the tale have probably litigated their last and have gone on to emeritus status. The legend persists and it begins with, "There is a tool so fearsome and dear that only the rich and the brave ever even inquire about using it. It's called the "Focus Group" and is so lethal that one must only use it  just before trial and then only when the consequences of failure are dire." Not so! Not so!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=186</link>
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		<title>What in the Wordle!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordle of the content &#038; focus of JuryVox micro-blog. Tools &#038; information to enhance trial advocacy. Prepare Persuade Prevail. http://bit.ly/10O6gf]]></description>
		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=177</link>
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		<title>Twisted Up Inside: Witness Prep Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Witness preparation is primarily an educational process. From the very first, give your witness information about the context of testimony, the overview narrative of their testimony, the "job" they have within their testimony,etc.  Education and context can relieve much of their concerns, but in many cases it's not enough. You must deal with their fears.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Voir Dire: Did you worry about money yesterday?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The crucible of significant societal and cultural events can and does create a sea change in experiences and attitudes in the day to day lives of our jurors.  We have experienced The Enron Effect, The 9/11 Effect, and The Recession Effect within the last 10 years. These ubiquitous national experiences touched the lives and opinions of many millions of potential jurors. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=157</link>
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		<title>Trolling the Polls: Jury Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Preparing your case for trial involves packaging, that is, arranging your case fact pattern, exhibits, and witnesses within a framework and narrative that is readily understandable and readily merges with the values and expectations of your jurors. Any case can enormously profit from the qualitative results from pre trial jury research. The very best approach is professionally conducted focus group/mock trial research, but not every case can support the resources required for this effort.  In this entry, I'll suggest a readily available, reliable and utilitarian alternative: National and Regional Polls.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Encouraging Juror Self Disclosure.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not surprising that most trial attorney's anticipate voir dire with some level of dread and trepidation. You don't know them; they don't know (and probably don't like) you. They wish they were someplace else. You might feel that way, too. This is Act One, Scene One in the Theater of the Trial and you are supposed to engage actors who neither know the play, their roles, their lines or you. Your biggest fear is that your scripted dialogue will result in the much dreaded, "I assume from your silence that none of you.... blah blah blah." Fade to black. How in the hell do I get them to talk to me?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=132</link>
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		<title>What are you doing now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if  "common sense" means the application of the senses as is common? What if the senses have now been enhanced by artificial cybernetic means? If the cybersphere has become an extention of "wetwear" memory, isn't it "common sense" for a juror to Google? It just comes naturally to the growing swell of Wireless Gen (and older!) jurors. When the features and system of Google transmogrified to a verb denoting "accessing data" it illustrated our cybernetic enhancement and adoption of articifial systems as self.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=123</link>
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		<title>The Jurors Can&#8217;t Tell You Why</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know what influenced your jurors to make up their minds all you have to do is ask them... not! It's a common and dearly held belief that a good question will unlock the juror's head and they will be able to tell you exactly when they came to their epiphany, what provoked the sudden clarity, and why the scales fell from their eyes. Sorry... it ain't so. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=99</link>
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		<title>The Peremptory Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The utility and fairness of peremptory strikes has been the subject of discourse in the media, within blogs, and post jury selection in courtrooms and law offices of late. Opponents cajole that peremptory strikes are often capricious, discriminatory and patently unfair to the venire persons subject to the process. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.litigationstrategiesinc.com/wordpress/?p=87</link>
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