Category: Jury Selection & the Art of Jury Deselection

I am pleased to announce that my new book Kurt D. Lloyd on Jury Selection has been published. If you would like to receive a free copy, then please register and attend the upcoming seminar Jury Deselection: The Law and Voir Dire Techniques for Jury Selection. 

The Lloyd Law Group is pleased to announce that the ISBA Civil Practice and Procedure Section has invited trial attorney Kurt D. Lloyd to speak at its upcoming Seminar: Seven Hot Litigation Practice Areas: Information to Successfully Represent Clients. 

Today, I wanted to blog about the plaintiff trial lawyer's fear concerning the trial judge who either changes or limits the jury selection process as we known it.  Last week, retired Cook County trial judge Lynn Egan hosted a luncheon seminar on the topic of the vast discretion of trial judges during jury

As a trial lawyer, I spend a lot of time trying to get the jury that I need. Because, if you don't get the jury you need, then you will lose before you start.  I design voir dire questions on case specific issues, I submit questions to focus groups, etc.  You are developing a narrative that you want to control during trial.

In voir dire, my goal is to ask questions that help prospective jurors share and articulate their own beliefs and experiences relating to the plaintiff's case, so that I can strike ("deselect") negative, non-believer jurors who are never likely to become aligned with the plaintiff's case.