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• Author: Carolyn S. Koch
• Pages: 1-16

EFFECTIVE VOIR DIRE

BY CAROLYN S. KOCH, J.D.

HIGHLIGHTS

Effective Voir Dire gives you the tools you need to get more jurors excused for cause; make informed

decisions about exercising your peremptory strikes; and handle voir dire with conf‌idence. The highlights of

this new edition include:

• Examples of how to use social media research to (1) help you prepare for the unexpected

during voir dire; and (2) uncover jurors who purposefully hide their true beliefs.

• New questions to assess “phone addiction” and jurors’ daily cell phone habits.

• A cautionary note to guard against labeling (e.g., “anti-vaxxers” and political

aff‌iliation) as an extension of stereotyping.

• New questions to uncover jurors’ feelings on big issues/social movements, including

#MeToo; BLM in the workplace and in cases involving law enforcement; and abortion.

• New questions re: motor vehicle accidents involving specif‌ic situations and types

of drivers, e.g., bus accidents; accidents involving police and emergency vehicles; hazardous

conditions; distracted drivers; aggressive drivers; inexperienced/younger drivers.

• New questions re: the importance/effectiveness of warnings in a products liability case.

• Analysis of key issues in sexual orientation discrimination cases, plus sample questions to

help uncover latent and entrenched biases against members of the LGBTQ community.

• Tips for how to approach employment cases involving transgender discrimination, plus

sample questions to give you sense of where a juror’s biases fall along the continuum.

• Analysis and sample question to root out jurors’ feelings about sexual harassment: zero-

tolerance policies; what conduct amounts to harassment.

• New questions re: mental health disabilities and employer accommodations to allow

work-from-home.

• New questions re: employer accommodations for drug/alcohol addiction.

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