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Above The Law Covid Cast


Jun 4, 2020

Joe and Kathryn talk with Tom O'Toole, President of Sound Jury Consulting, about the trial consultant profession and how COVID will impact trials going forward. O'Toole discusses a major survey he just completed suggesting that the next several months could see a dramatic pro-corporate turn in courtrooms across the country -- just another unexpected effect of the pandemic.

 

Highlights

  • An interesting shift - 1:40
  • Tom’s background - 3:04
  • What is happening with juries - 4:05
  • What does his company do? - 4:31
  • Being a jury consulter - 6:02
  • A survey about juries - 8:47
  • Emotions and uncertainty - 10:33
  • The survey’s results about the pandemic - 11:30
  • Increase of cases during the pandemic - 13:01
  • The data of their survey - 17:38
  • Judges and trials in the future - 21:20

 

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