Books & Articles
Two widely cited books on jury selection and dozens of articles on trial communication, persuasion, and strategy, including work published in Law360, Verdict, For The Defense, and The Advocate.
A Look Into How Jurors Reach High Damages Awards
Law360 – A Look Into How Jurors Reach High Damages Awards
Read more →3 Factors That May Complicate Jury Selection in Trump Trials
Law360 – 3 Factors That May Complicate Jury Selection In Trump Trials
Read more →How Implicit Bias Instructions May Affect Jury Verdicts
Law360 – How Implicit Bias Instructions May Affect Jury Verdicts
Read more →What Recent Supreme Court Decisions Reveal About Judges and the Constitution
When I was a kid, I used to ride my bike down to my mother’s courtroom and watch her trials. At dinner, she would talk to me and my brother about her job as a judge and the difficulty of applying the …
Read more →Reforms to Revive the Dying Jury Trial
In this article from The Advocate’s Spring 2022 edition, Richard Gabriel, Emily Shaw, Gabriela Cedré, and Jonathan Ross discuss several reforms that can help preserve and improve American jury trials….
Read more →Technology and the Courts: Time to Move Into the Twenty-First Century
In this article from The Advocate’s Spring 2022 edition, Richard Gabriel and Ted Donner discuss how technology can be used to help enhance the courts. Click the pdf below to read the full article.
Read more →Race and Restorative Justice in the Ahmaud Arbery Case
On February 23rd, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead while running in Glynn County, Georgia. His death was filmed.
Read more →A Comprehensive Guide to Jury Research
Many attorneys have a perception that jury trials are dangerous and unpredictable; that jurors cannot be trusted to properly sort through the facts and evidence, understand complex legal issues and ar…
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Jury Trials: Unpredictable in Predictable Ways
“Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.” — Judge Sonia Sotomayor In a study of almost one thousand
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COVID-19 Insurance Survey Report
In May 2020, we conducted a national online survey of 802 jury-qualified U.S. citizens. The survey was designed to analyze people’s experiences and opinions about insurance and business
Read more →In the Age of COVID-19, Tips on How to Look Your Best on Your Webcam
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Read more →Law360 Op-Ed: What Online Jury Trials Could Look Like
How could jury trials be conducted online? First, a trial is fundamentally an oral advocacy forum where evidence is communicated through verbal testimony and shown documentary and demonstrative eviden…
Read more →Law360 Op-Ed: Impossible Impartiality In The Trump And Weinstein Trials
Recently, two sets of juries were empaneled: one to decide the fate of President Donald Trump and the other to decide the fate of Harvey Weinstein. Both sets of juries swore an oath of impartiality at…
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16 Strategies: Jury Selection Simplified
In this exclusive short video taken from an Inns of Court presentation, Richard Gabriel lays out the best and most basic steps attorneys can use to select a fair, open, and receptive jury. Taken from …
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This Happened, but Then This Happened. Therefore, This Happened: How to Build a Case Story From a Case Chronology
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein
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Who’s Your Case Really About? Recasting Heroes and Villains for More Effective Stories
“Every character, before they are heroes and villains, they are human beings.” — Tabu
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The Twenty-Seven Points: Distilling Evidence Down to Create a Simple Story
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” — Albert Einstein
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