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- Title
RESOLVING MALPRACTICE DISPUTES: IMAGING THE JURY'S SHADOW.
- Authors
METZLOFF, THOMAS B.
- Abstract
The trial went very poorly from the beginning. The jury was comprised of about an even split of men/women and black/whites--five jurors did not have a high school education and three slept through goodly portions of the trial. The plaintiff's lawyer was very aggressive…. It was a fiasco from beginning to end. The judge was clearly angry at our failure to settle and talked with us three times during the trial [about settling]. The jury was out 14 minutes and came back with a $750,000 verdict [in a case that we could have settled for $150,000 two weeks ago].
- Subjects
TRIALS (Law); MALPRACTICE; JUDGES; ATTORNEY &; client; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); VERDICTS
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1991, Vol 54, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191856