Skip to Main Content

Services

Jury Selection

Is your jury selection process informed by insights into potential jurors? We have extensive experience working alongside attorneys at the defense table to assist during courtroom voir dire.

Related Blog Articles

September 15, 2026
Counter-Rehabilitate: 6 Ways to Make Your Cause Challenge Stick
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Every attorney who has conducted voir dire has likely lived through this scenario: After carefully and comprehensively developing a clear reason why a...
August 10, 2026
Are Judges Making it Harder or Easier for Jurors to Admit Bias?
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: My experience says “harder,” and that experience is reinforced to some extent, but also challenged to some extent, by an analysis conducted by researchers...
April 29, 2026
Don’t Just Ask IF a Potential Juror Can “Set Aside” Bias, Ask Them HOW They’ll Do It
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: In a recent jury selection — and, pretty much, in every jury selection — I have watched as several on the panel would share various connections, attitudes...
March 24, 2026
Account for a Partisan Frame on a Corporate Scandal
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: In a Los Angeles Civil trial, jurors recently heard arguments over whether some of the largest and most powerful companies in the world engaged in a secret...
February 17, 2026
Defendants, Look Out for Anti-Corporate Conspiracists on Your Jury
By Dr. Ava Zwolinski and Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Americans have long viewed large organizations, both governmental and corporate, with considerable skepticism. In civil litigation...
January 27, 2026
Don’t Reduce Jurors to Their Political Identities (But Don’t Ignore It Either)
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Whether we are talking about Minnesota or Greenland, or a score of other contested narratives within the field of political conflict, the role of a person’s...
October 20, 2025
Have a Definite (Explicit and Quantified) Reason for Your Strikes
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm As counsel scans the panel of potential jurors, one might stand out based on the gut level thought: a “that guy just makes me nervous” kind of reaction...
October 07, 2025
Oral Voir Dire: Know Your Purpose
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: How effectively does counsel and the court question potential jurors as part of the selection process? New research in the journal Language in Society...
August 05, 2025
Don’t Activate a Bad Frame
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: There is a well-known principle in communication circles, first expressed by cognitive scientist George Lakoff: “When we negate a frame, we evoke the...
July 15, 2025
Expect More Extreme Anti-Corporate Attitudes
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: In modern times at least, corporations have not been terribly popular. However, since the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO about a half a year ago in New...