Social Media, Jury Trial

Adapting Trial Graphics to Jurors’ New Media Expectations

IMS Legal Strategies on 8/28/2024

Trial graphics are instrumental in conveying your story to today’s jurors. Presenting an understandable argument to a jury usually involves technology-driven visual communication in the form of demonstrative exhibits and...more

Using Internet Research to Get to Know Your Prospective Jurors

U.S. Legal Support on 5/13/2021

With the rise of social media, there is now a great deal of public information existing on the internet about many individuals. As part of jury selection, this information can be gathered and analyzed to provide attorneys...more

Political Affiliations and Jury Selection: Using Social Media and Voir Dire to Impact Juror Selection and Outcomes

Rumberger | Kirk on 6/26/2020

With today’s ever-changing political climate, a juror’s political affiliation is an important factor to consider throughout the voir dire process. Political attitudes can create gridlocks, contention and animosity among...more

Consider COVID Attitude Changes 2: A Revised Information Diet

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 4/13/2020

It can be helpful to think of the information that we are exposed to in the same way as we think about the food we consume: a diet. Like a diet, the information consumed is not the same for everyone, and it is not the same...more

Ask the Court to Help You Look for Stealth Jurors

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 3/6/2020

When Trump associate Roger Stone was sentenced last month for obstruction of Congress and witness tampering, there was some pushback from media, Stone’s legal team, and the President himself targeting the jury’s foreperson, a...more

Ethics Rules for Using Social Media in Legal Matters

Association of Certified E-Discovery... on 10/3/2019

Social media is increasingly important in eDiscovery, employment investigations and jury research. Using social media in legal and HR matters raises significant ethical issues. Lawyers and other legal professionals should...more

Adapt to the Online Brain

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 7/23/2019

Many to most of my readers will be old enough to remember when there was no Internet. Or, perhaps, you’ll remember a time when “going online” meant connecting through a noisy modem and a telephone line. Even more of you will...more

Understand Your Jurors’ Online Reality

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 12/7/2018

The idea of a courtroom trial is that it is a sealed system. The fact-finders arrive in a neutral state of mind, they receive and review only what is vetted and presented in court, and then they deliberate to a verdict...more

See the Threads of Conspiracy Thinking

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 11/12/2018

As our team was conducting a recent social media analysis on a jury pool, one particular potential juror stood out. He was, as he proudly proclaimed in his public online messages, a “flat-earther.” And this belief of his,...more

Google and Oracle agree not to research potential jurors’ social media accounts

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/8/2016

Litigating companies Google and Oracle have mutually agreed, at the strong recommendation of the presiding judge, to refrain from researching the social media accounts of a potential jury pool before and during a high stakes...more

Friending and Following Jurors: The Ethical Boundaries of Researching Jurors on Social Media

Butler Snow LLP on 12/9/2014

What are the ethical boundaries of an attorney’s internet research of jurors? Before the ubiquity of the internet, an attorney obviously couldn’t walk up to a potential juror in a restaurant and strike up a conversation. But...more

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