In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene's damage to western North Carolina, a new conspiracy theory gained traction. This conspiracy held that the federal government manipulated the weather as Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina...more
1/20/2025
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Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have taken the world by storm, with many industry leaders and technology optimists eagerly anticipating its integration into processes and solutions across nearly every...more
12/3/2024
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Jury selection in the Trump hush-money trial briefly put jury consultants back in the spotlight as media pundits and their contributors discussed the Trump team’s efforts to search prospective jurors’ social media accounts...more
Nuclear verdicts are an ever-present peril looming over today’s medical malpractice trials. In 2022’s Thapa v. St. Cloud Orthopedic Associates, jurors handed down one of the most shocking med-mal verdicts to that point: $111...more
In the last 30 years, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed from software that could almost beat a chess world champion to today’s systems that use “language and image recognition capabilities … comparable to humans,”...more
Forget cryptocurrency—there is another kind of investment making the news in recent years and creating major headaches for corporate defendants: litigation funding.
Originally published in the Winter 2024 Issue of In-House...more
Misinformation "poses an unprecedented threat in 2024," according to NBC News. No matter which side of the many social divides someone stands on, they can find a readily available source to support their opinion—and a...more
While the CARES Act, PPP loans, and boosted unemployment checks helped nudge the nation out of its pandemic-induced inertia, the expected return to economic normalcy was anything but normal. Until the past few months, key...more
The layperson’s expectation is that products work as designed, safely, and without putting the public at risk. But while that may sound perfectly reasonable in a vacuum, when applied to the legal arena, these expectations put...more
While views may vary, we believe firmly that witness preparation should involve asking witnesses the tough questions, for several reasons:
First, we would argue it is better to pose a tough or uncomfortable question up...more
4/18/2023
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Millennials are often extremely valuable, hard-working additions to your trial team. We are sure many of our clients would agree, as we have gotten to work alongside quite a few truly impressive young trial attorneys....more
12/27/2022
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Young Lawyers
Think of the last movie you watched. Can you remember how many times there were edits? How many transitions? What kind? Most of us have watched movies our entire lives without really attending to their cuts and...more