In my experience with personal injury and car accident cases in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, it is highly unlikely that any case will advance to trial without the judge ordering the parties to mediation. I would suspect this is also true for other jurisdictions throughout the country. “Mediation” is an informal settlement conference. Mediation is […]
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Now, let’s assume you are one of the “lucky” ones selected for jury duty. I will follow a typical case in Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas, although other jurisdictions are still very similar. You will be asked by the judge to take a seat in the jury box at which time you will be sworn
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Now the jurors are back in the hall and the attorneys are in the courtroom conferring with the judge about some of the responses from the panel members. The judge will ask the bailiff to individually call one or more of the panel members back into the courtroom to further discuss the juror’s answers or comments during the voir dire process.
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You have been summoned for jury duty and made it through the administrative stage. Now, you are seated in the courtroom awaiting jury selection. It is at this point that the attorneys and the judge finally get to personally converse with the panel members. This process is called “voir dire,” which, translated from French, means “to speak the
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Many people call me to seek advice about what to do if they are called for jury duty. Likewise, I thought I would write a series regarding jury duty, starting from receipt of the notification all the way through the trial and verdict. Parts I-III will deal primarily with the jury selection process, while part IV will
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