As of: 11/10/2015 11:39:58 AM EST
- Replicate Kalven/Zeisel study published in 1966 on judge/jury agreement and whether it is impacted by any of the suggested innovations: juror notetaking, juror questions, interim discussion of evidence, substantive preliminary instructions, interim argument by counsel, time limits and back-to-back experts
- Survey clients of jury consultants as to reasons for decline of civil jury trials
- Establish website where former jurors can criticize or praise their experiences
- Organize monthly Juror Appreciation lunches
- Organize CLE program on jury trials for new judges with Federal Judicial Center
- Initiate a blog where Advisors and trial lawyers can discuss jury trials
- Maintain a national calendar of significant civil trials nearing verdict and interview jurors for testimonials
- Ask Judicial Advisors to share with us any questionnaires they have administered to jurors whom they have discharged
- Produce video for Jury Assembly Rooms
- Investigate whether prospective jurors can be given the choice to opt out of in-person voir dire and complete an online questionnaire instead, allowing the lawyers to research jurors online and exercise their pre-emptory and cause challenges without seeing or hearing the jurors
- Identify and study jurisdictions where jury trials are most plentiful
- Identify and study jurisdictions where yield for jury summons are very low and very high
- Enlist Chief Judges and Chief Justices to acquire data on how many cases are tried to verdict every year, by judge
- Prepare TED talk
- Expand on Judge Young’s list of jury verdicts that signaled an important development of law, as recorded on p. 100 of his Nexium opinion
- Prepare pattern jury instruction on how to conduct deliberations
- Investigate why courts have been so slow to adopt innovations suggested by ABA ten years ago
- Update research from Mark Lemley’s “Rush to Judgment?” paper and plan national conference on the role of juries in patent litigation for April 2016