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Law Practice,
Civil Litigation

Jun. 10, 2020

Coronavirus’ effect on juror attitudes

Once the courts figure out how to best get jurors back into the courthouse and into the jury box the question will be, how will this world pandemic affect juror attitudes?

Gary A. Dordick

Dordick Law Corporation

Phone: (310) 551-0949

Fax: (855) 299-4444

Email: gary@dordicklaw.com

University of West Los Angeles; Los Angeles CA

Gary A. Dordick is a trial attorney in Beverly Hills with over 125 jury trials in his career. He won CAALA's Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2001, and CAOC's (Consumer Attorneys of California) Trial Attorney of the Year in 2009. He was one of the Daily Journal's Top 100 Lawyers in California in 2017, as well as one of the Daily Journal's Top 30 Plaintiff Lawyers in California for 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. He is also a Diplomat with The Los Angeles Chapter of ABOTA and an Emeritus Board Member with CAALA. Mr. Dordick frequently lectures trial practice, ethics and civility in the courtroom.

THIS COLUMN APPEARED IN THE 2020 PLAINTIFF LAWYERS SUPPLEMENT

The coronavirus pandemic is going to have a significant effect on jury trials for quite some time to come. To begin with, not many people were particularly happy to show up for jury service prior to the coronavirus pandemic. It is pretty safe to say the fear of contracting COVID-19 is going to be used as an excuse to avoid jury service for the foreseeable future.

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