Juries

Upcoming Conference: Trial by Jury of Patent Case

We hope you can join us on Friday, September 30th, in NYC for a conference bringing together distinguished federal jurists, academics, and practitioners to discuss current issues and trends in how patent jury trials are conducted.  The conference, which is hosted by the Civil Jury Project and the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School of Law, is free, including continental breakfast and lunch. Attendees must register in advance. For more information or to register, please contact [email protected].  Agenda 8:15 - 9:00 AM Breakfast Reception and Registration 9:00 - 9:15 AM Brief Opening Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker Professor Samuel Issacharoff (NYU School of Law) 9:15 - 9:45 AM Keynote Address  Honorable Kathleen M. O'Malley, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 9:45 - 10:45 AM Scholars Debate: Does the 7th Amendment guarantee a jury trial in patent litigation?  Professor Renee Lerner (GW Law) Professor James Oldham (Georgetown Law) Professor Jeanne Fromer (NYU School of Law) (Moderator) 10:45 - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 - 11:30 AM Update on Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in Patent Cases Professor Mark Lemley (Stanford Law) 11:30 - 12:30 PM Judges Roundtable  Hon. William Conley (W.D. Wi.) Hon. Rodney Gilstrap (EDTX) Hon. Leonard Stark (D. Del) Hon. William Young (D. MA) Professor Scott Hemphill (NYU School of Law) (Moderator) 12:30 - 1:15 PM Lunch 1:15 - 2:15 PM Scholars Roundtable Professor Colleen Chien (Santa Clara Law) Professor Mark Lemley (Stanford Law) Professor David Schwartz (Northwestern Law) Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss (NYU School of Law) (Moderator) 2:15 - 3:15 PM Practitioners Roundtable on U.S. District Courts and the PTAB  Juanita Brooks (Fish & Richardson) Douglas Cawley (McKool Smith) John Desmarais (Desmarais LLP) William Lee (WilmerHale) Steve Susman (Susman Godfrey) (Moderator) 3:15 PM Closing Remarks and Conference Ends

State and Future of Civil Jury Trials: September 11, 2015

 

The Civil Jury Project, which was recently established at NYU law school, will hold its inaugural conference on September 11, 2015. The agenda for the conference can be found below. If you are interested in attending the conference you can RSVP here.

Friday, September 11 Lipton Hall, 108 West Third Street, New York, NY 10012

8:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:45-9:00 am Welcome

9:00-10:00 am Panel I: Originalism and the 7th Amendment Moderated by Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law; Faculty Co-Director, Civil Jury Project, NYU School of Law

• Preserved Where, Preserved How, Preserved Why? Renée Lerner, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
• Betraying a Distinctive Constitutional Idea of Popular Self-Government—Are the Lawyers, Judges, and Law Professors Still at It? Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School

10:00-11:00 am Panel II: Empirical Studies Moderated by Catherine Sharkey, Crystal Eastman Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Civil Jury Project, NYU School of Law

• The Jury Under Fire: Myth, Controversy, and Reform Brian Bornstein, Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Edie Greene, Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado
• Real Juries and Judicial Innovation: Arizona and the 7^th Circuit Shari Seidman Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University School of  Law

11:00-12:00 pm Panel III: Who’s To Blame? Moderated by Stephen Susman, Partner, Susman Godfrey; Executive Director, Civil Jury Project, NYU School of Law

• A View from the Bench The Honorable William Young, Judge, US District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• A View from the Bar Arthur Miller, University Professor, NYU School of Law
• A View from the Boardroom Robert Gasaway, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

12:00-12:30 pm Panel IV: What Innovations Judges, Court Systems, and Citizens Can Adopt to Save the Civil Jury Trial Panel Discussion:

• The Honorable Mark Bennett, Judge, US District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
• Paula Hannaford-Agor, Director, Center for Jury Studies, National Center for State Courts
• Andrew Ferguson, Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law

12:30-2:00 pm Lunch Keynote

Is it Worth the Fight? Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator for Rhode Island

 

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Jury Conference: Oct 10th

 

 

On Oct 10th, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law will be holding a conference entitled Juries and Lay Participation: American Perspectives and Global Trends.  

The one-day conference will feature a series of panel discussions on juror bias, the jury as a political institution, comparative jury practices and innovations, and practitioners' perspectives on judges and jurors. The Honorable James F. Holderman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (pictured above) will deliver a luncheon keynote address on "Maximizing Jurors' Understanding." 

Free admission and lunch with advance registration. RSVP at www.alumni.kentlaw.edu/lawreviewsymposium. A reception will follow the conference.

ABA CLE on Social Media and Jury Selection (Oct. 15th)

 On October 15th the ABA is offering a CLE entitled Using Social Media in the Jury Selection Process.  The CLE runs from 1:00-2:30. 

According to the ABA's website this seminar will touch upon

• ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 466
• Best practices
• Successful use of social media in securing impartial and fair juries

The course will be taught by

    John Browning

    Scott Malouf

    Donald Lundberg

 

ABA Jury Symposium (October 23 and 24)

You can now register for the upcoming ABA Jury Symposium entitled "Assuring Fair and Impartial Juries." The announcement for the symposium can be found below. 

Join the ABA Commission on the American Jury Project in beautiful San Diego for the 2014 National Symposium on the American Jury Project.  "Assuring Fair and Impartial Juries" is a two-day CLE event taking place at the University of San Diego School of Law, Joan B. Kroc Center for Peace Studies.  The two-day event will feature topics on exclusions, hardships, bias and jury consultants. 

 

Keynote Luncheon: Associate Justice Marvin R. Baxter, Supreme Court of California

 

 

Reminder: OJMA Conference this Friday (Apr 29th)

Annual Ohio Jury Management Association Conference is April 29th in Dublin, Ohio

The title for this year's conference is:

The Perfect Marriage: Jury Service and Justice

OJMA Conference April 29th

Ohio Jury Management Association's (OJMA) 13th Jury Service Conference!

The Perfect Marriage: Jury Service and Justice

 

Special Guest Speakers

Justice Yvette McGee Brown, Supreme Court of Ohio

Hon. R. Scott Krichbaum, Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Ohio v. Michael Davis

Paula Hannaford-Agor, JD, National Center for State Courts

Hon. Reeve Kelsey, Wood County Common Pleas Court Co-Chair, Ohio Judicial Conference Jury Service Committee

 

Sessions will include these topics:

Managing a high-profile capital jury trial, Ohio v. Michael Davis

An overview of international, national, and state jury issues

Updates from the Ohio Judicial Conference Jury Service Committee

Networking Luncheon and the OJMA Award of Excellence

Juror Terms of Service: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Alternatives

“What’s On Your Mind?” A discussion of topics submitted by you

 

3.5 CLE Credits were approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio

www.ohiojury.org Vicky Unger at 614-487-4475 [email protected]

 

 

Social Media and Trial by Jury Webinar (Feb 8th 2-3pm)

For those looking to learn more about the impact of social media on jurors, I highly recommend this upcoming webinar. 

Social Media and Trial by Jury:  Identifying Problems, Designing Solutions

The Bureau of Justice Assistance’s National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) invites you to participate in February’s webinar on technology in the courtroom, as part of our Second Tuesdays at 2 webinar series. People are constantly engaged online — surfing the Internet at home, at work and at the courthouse. While convenience and accessibility to information are unparalleled, our obsession with hand-held devices presents large challenges for the management of jury trials. For example, jurors’ use of Internet-enabled devices can cause expensive mistrials, and Internet research done by lawyers may infringe upon the privacy of jurors. What can the bench and the bar do to deal with this new world of social media communication? Can we accommodate the proper use of texting, tweeting and the like during a jury trial? This webinar, moderated by Judge Gregory E. Mize, will help define the challenges and chart practical solutions. Panelists include Judge Dennis M. Sweeney and Professor Caren Myers Morrison.

Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Cost: Free
Space is limited!  Click here to register

Social Networking and Litigation: Friend or Unethical Foe? (Nov. 30th Conference at AU)

On Nov. 30th American Law School in Washington, D.C. will be hosting a conference discussing ethical issues that arise from litigating in the Digital Age.  A portion of this conference will discuss how juries have been impacted.  The brief write up on the conference is available below.

Social Networking and Litigation: Friend or Unethical Foe?

Litigation in the digital age presents novel and complicated ethical issues regarding social networking and internet search engines.  As these sites grow in popularity, so do their value as investigative tools.  However, attorneys must be aware of the ethical ramifications of exploiting these sites for potentially improper purposes, accessing information by unethical means, and the danger of inappropriate use by jurors.  This conference will examine the ethical issues resulting from the use of these types of internet sites by the bench, bar, and jurors.  To register for the conference go here.ing information by unethical means, and the danger of inappropriate use by jurors.  This conference will exami