Preparing for Employment Trials Through Mock Jury Exercises and Surveys
$74.99
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1.00 General
Practice Areas:
Employment Law, Labor & Employment, Labor Law, Skills Training, Trial
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About
This Course
Many employment trials are decided based on witness likeability and credibility assessments that are challenging for attorneys and advocates to assess in advance. Moreover, the jury’s views of a particular company, current event, or political issue may also influence a case’s outcome. Given these factors, employment attorneys often engage in mock jury or survey exercises to gain critical insight into how a jury might evaluate their claims, defenses, themes, and evidence. This panel will dive into the world of mock jury and survey exercises, including the pros and cons, the types of cases that might benefit, the insights that may be gleaned, practical implications (timing, in-person vs. remote, whether to rely on videotaped depositions or utilize role play), and real world examples of past mock juries gone wrong and right.
About the Presenters
Michael Laurenson, Esq.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
Practice Area: Trial (+ 2 other areas)
Michael A. ("Mike") Laurenson loves to go to trial. He is the leader of GRSM's Northern California Trial practice group and a member of the firm’s national Trial practice group. He has been elected into membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). Mike has twice been selected by the Daily Journal as one of the Top Labor & Employment Attorneys in California and has also had two of his unanimous defense verdicts selected by the Daily Journal as Top 10 Defense Verdicts in California for that year.Mike is a member of the Employment practice group and works out of the Walnut Creek ...
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Will Rountree, Esq.
Bonora Rountree
Practice Area: Trial (+ 4 other areas)
Will Rountree, J.D., Ph.D. is a Senior Trial Consultant and partner and has been with Bonora Rountree since 2005. He brings to the team a grounded understanding of legal principles and specialized social science methodologies to reveal jurors’ perceptions and biases.Will has acquired in-depth consulting experience in over 1,000 cases, and developed specialties in antitrust/unfair business competition, employment discrimination, criminal defense, intellectual property, mass tort/personal injury, and breach of contract cases. He is often called upon to conduct publicity analysis and venue studies in high- profile cases, and has testified as an expert in a change of venue hearing where the ...
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P. Bobby Shukla, Esq.
Shukla Law
Practice Area: Employment Law (+ 3 other areas)
P. Bobby Shukla is the principal at Shukla Law, P.C.. She is an experienced trial lawyer who exclusively practices employment law on behalf of employees, specializing in cases involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblowing and pay equity.Since 2022, Ms. Shukla was selected as one of the Top 100 Northern California Lawyers, as well as, one of Top 50 Women Lawyers in Northern California by Super Lawyers. Ms. Shukla had previously been selected as a Super Lawyer or Super Lawyer Rising Star every year since 2009. In 2020, she was a finalist for the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association's Trial Lawyer of ...
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