Law Practice
Feb. 19, 2020
Mastering the art of jury strategy
In a complex commercial case, a trial lawyer has many ingredients to choose from. There are millions of pages of documents, dozens of witnesses and an almost infinite number of ways to tell the story. Like the choices a chef has when choosing fresh ingredients from Northern California to cook a meal or set a menu, a trial lawyer has to design a presentation that captures the palette of the jury.
Gregory Call
Partner
Crowell & Moring LLP
Email: gcall@crowell.com
Greg is the former head of that office and the firm's Litigation Group. He has an active trial practice representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial cases. He has represented clients in breach of contract, business torts, anti-trust and intellectual property matters. His plaintiff clients have recovered over $2 billion.
Trial lawyers make choices. They choose what witnesses to put on the stand, what documents to introduce, what questions to ask, what themes to sound, and what narrative to tell. The choices trial lawyers make is the art of being a trial lawyer. That art is much like the art of preparing a meal or, more accurately, designing a menu in a restaurant. While the evidence, themes, and narrative presented might be the...
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