Description
VIRTUAL CLE (considred live CLE credit)
1 substantive credit
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$15 Student members & Paralegals | $30 DCBA members | $50 attorney non-members
Registration deadline: 12 noon, May 11, 2026
ACH Debit registration can be made here.
Abstract/Summary: The first half of this talk will provide a brief and broad overview of factors that influence juror and jury decision-making in civil and criminal cases. In doing so, the following questions will be addressed: What variables are empirically known to affect jurors’/juries’ perceptions and decisions in civil and criminal cases, and how can these variables be (better) assessed by legal officials? The second half of this talk will discuss implications of these empirical findings as it relates to juror/jury competency, along with how attorneys can apply this knowledge to better understand how jurors/juries make decisions, including the potential conduct of pre-trial research. This discussion will be infused with the speaker’s experiences as a researcher and consulting on legal cases, with time reserved for questions during or after the talk.: