{"id":4435,"date":"2014-11-14T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2014-11-11T16:48:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:48:39","slug":"conversations-jurors-may-jury-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/conversations-jurors-may-jury-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations that Jurors May Have in the Jury Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers who handle jury trials prepare their cases typically by reviewing all of the depositions, all of the issues of damages, the pleadings, the written discovery, the law that applies and the jury instructions that may be used. That would be just the start. Some lawyers, like me, abstract all of the depositions, which mean a summary by page is made for each deposition transcript. That allows the lawyer to both read again the transcripts of depositions that may have been taken some years ago and now refresh the memory of the lawyer who may call the witness either as a witness on direct examination or a witness that may be called by the opposition and cross-examined during the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers spend a lot of time doing all of this work in reviewing the case, meeting with the clients, re-reading the file, the medical records, the photographs and other evidence, the preparation of demonstrative evidence, the preparation of visuals such as large blow-ups or use of computers to generate images for the jury, all the while perhaps spending little time on preparing the case for the jurors in anticipation of what they will discuss in the jury room.<\/p>\n<p>In my practice before trial I utilize the benefits of a focus group, which would be a method to test-drive the elements of the case before an uninterested, unbiased group just like the jury, to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of the case. The discussions that these practice jurors have are many times the same kinds of discussions and deliberations that take place at the end of the trial in the jury room.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/conversations-jurors-may-jury-room\/#more-4435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers who handle jury trials prepare their cases typically by reviewing all of the depositions, all of the issues of damages, the pleadings, the written discovery, the law that applies and the jury instructions that may be used. That would be just the start. Some lawyers, like me, abstract all of the depositions, which mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,46,22,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-litigation","category-civil-procedure","category-illinois-civil-procedure","category-trial-practice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conversations that Jurors May Have in the Jury Room &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lawyers who handle jury trials prepare their cases typically by reviewing all of the depositions, all of the issues of damages, the pleadings, the written\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/conversations-jurors-may-jury-room\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Conversations that Jurors May Have in the Jury Room &#8212; 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