Alternative Dispute Resolution
Sep. 23, 2024
An argument for jury-augmented ADR
Juries are meant to resolve civil disputes, but few cases ever reach them today. What if the traditional voice of 'The People' in our system of jurisprudence could be restored by adding privately hired "jurors" to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes? This could make ADR more effective, save time and money, and ease pressure on our overworked courts.
Shawn K. Elliott
Partner in the Personal Injury Division Lyfe Law, LLP
Email: S.Elliott@courtofpublicopinion.com
Shawn K. Elliott is a civil litigator and trial attorney whose 30-year practice has been split between work as a plaintiff's personal injury attorney and as an insurance defense attorney. He is currently a partner at Lyfe Law in the Personal Injury Division and is the founder of the jury brokerage service, Court of Public Opinion, LLC. courtofpublicopinion.com (844) FOR-JURY S.Elliott@courtofpublicopinion.com.
"In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall
exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no
fact tried by a jury shall otherwise re-examined in any court of the United
States, than according to the rules of the common law." - Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States (1791)
When the founders of this nation enshrined the right to a...
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