John Dannecker | Construction Executive Bart Smith is the Senior Project Manager for Simply Best, a general contracting firm. He has been assigned to serve as the liaison with outside counsel in a lawsuit against Holly’s Harleys, a project owner who contracted with Best for the construction of a motorcycle showroom. Best filed suit in… Continue reading Virtual Jury Trials of Construction Disputes: The Necessary Union of Both Sides of the Brain
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Remote Trials Can Control Prejudgment Risk
Robert G. Devine, Victor J. Zarrilli and Kimberly M. Collins | White and Williams While courts across the country are largely unavailable to litigants demanding a jury trial, pre-judgment interest rules present an increasing penalty risk to a defendant wanting its day in court and may not always make a plaintiff whole. The COVID-19 pandemic… Continue reading Remote Trials Can Control Prejudgment Risk
Is There a Downside to Virtual Trials?
Alaina Lancaster | Law.com What’s Wrong With Virtual Jury Trials? Jurors in some of the country’s first online trials faced tech issues and waning attention spans. But Cooley’s Litigation Chair Michael Attanasio says there are more problems with a virtual jury trial to be skeptical about. Attanasio said one of the constitutional issues that remote jury trials could raise is that… Continue reading Is There a Downside to Virtual Trials?
Virtual Jury Trials: The Next Wave of Remote Legal Practice
David R. Zaslow and Mark Paladino | White & Williams One of the most obvious and unavoidable results of the COVID-19 crisis has been the postponement of jury service and, by extension, all jury trials. Given the inherent difficulties of convening juries in a world of social distancing, it is likely that multiple jurisdictions will… Continue reading Virtual Jury Trials: The Next Wave of Remote Legal Practice