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Effective Voir Dire gives you the tools you need to get more jurors excused for cause; make informed decisions about exercising your peremptory strikes; and handle voir dire with confidence. The highlights of this new edition include:
Examples of how to use social media research to (1) help you prepare for the unexpected during voir dire; and (2) uncover jurors who purposefully hide their true beliefs.
New questions to assess "phone addiction" and jurors' daily cell phone habits.
A cautionary note to guard against labeling (e.g., "anti-vaxxers" and political affiliation) as an extension of stereotyping.
New questions to uncover jurors' feelings on big issues/social movements, including #MeToo; BLM in the workplace and in cases involving law enforcement; and abortion.
New questions re: motor vehicle accidents involving specific situations and types of drivers, e.g., bus accidents; accidents involving police and emergency vehicles; hazardous conditions; distracted drivers; aggressive drivers; inexperienced/younger drivers.
New questions re: the importance/effectiveness of warnings in a products liability case.
Analysis of key issues in sexual orientation discrimination cases, plus sample questions to help uncover latent and entrenched biases against members of the LGBTQ community.
Tips for how to approach employment cases involving transgender discrimination, plus sample questions to give you sense of where a juror's biases fall along the continuum.
Analysis and sample question to root out jurors' feelings about sexual harassment: zero-tolerance policies; what conduct amounts to harassment.
New questions re: mental health disabilities and employer accommodations to allow work-from-home.
New questions re: employer accommodations for drug/alcohol addiction.
