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Jury Selection in the Age of Conspiracy Theories and Distrust with Tara Trask
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Jury Selection in the Age of Conspiracy Theories and Distrust with Tara Trask

Jury Selection in the Age of Conspiracy Theories and Distrust with Tara Trask

April 4th, 2024|Categories: ELP, HB Emerging Law Notes|Tags: antitrust, antitrust litigation, breach of contract, Civil Jury Project, complex commercial litigation, conspiracy, Defend Trade Secrets Act, emerging litigation, emerging litigation podcast, Emerging Technologies, fraud, hb litigation, insurance, intellectual property, journal on emerging issues in litigation, juror psychology, jury research, Jury Selection, legal podcast, litigation, litigation podcast, litigation strategy, oil and gas, patent and trademark infringement, plaintiffs and defendants, products liability, regulatory enforcement, Securities, tara trask, Tom Hagy, trade secrets, Trask Consulting, Trial Consultant Advisor, trial consulting|

In this episode, we discuss picking juries in an age of misinformation, general distrust, tribalism, unleashed social media surfers, and unorthodox legal strategies unfolding on a daily basis with Tara Trask of Trask Consulting, jury and trial expert. "Jury service is an opportunity for everyday Americans to interact with an important institution, our courts, and play their part as citizens,"Trask says. "The court system could very well be our saving grace in trying to hang on to our democracy." Listen now.

Intellectual Property Trial Team Diversity with Tara Trask

May 9th, 2023|Categories: ELP, Podcasts|Tags: American Bar Association Insurance Practice area, American Bar Association Tort, compliance litigation, DEI, diversity, emerging litigation, emerging litigation podcast, hb litigation, inclusion, Insurance tort, intellectual property, IP juries, IP trials, law firm, legal podcast, litigation, litigation podcast, National Association for Law Placement, tara trask, Tom Hagy, trial|

Intellectual Property Trial Team Diversity with Tara Trask Diversity and inclusion initiatives aren’t just valuable for checking off compliance boxes and writing marketing copy. Those benefits are a distant second and third to the genuine value team diversity has on the success of a company or a project. That also means law firms and trials. A recent article published by the American Bar Association Tort and Insurance Practice Section hailed diversity of perspectives for how they improve a team’s ability to resolve legal issues, innovate solutions, and introduce factors homogeneous teams may miss. The National Association for Law Placement reported that women and people of color are making great progress at major law firms. Nearly half of associates are women and, based on summer associate statistics, women are expected to break the 50% as early as this year or next. Black associates made impressive gains, but there remains room for improvement. At the partner level, however, Black and Latinx women and men remain stuck in the low single digits. In this episode we drill down even further to examine trial teams in the intellectual property arena. I was thrilled to speak with Tara Trask, one of the nation’s leading experts on IP trials and juries, having directly worked on or observed more of these proceedings than just about anyone. Tara [...]

Lawyers for Good with Tara Trask and Jason Flom

December 22nd, 2022|Categories: ELP, Emerging Litigation & Risk, HB Emerging Law Notes, Podcasts|Tags: emerging litigation, emerging litigation podcast, hb litigation, Jason Flom, Lawyers, litigation articles, litigation settlements, litigation strategy, pro bono publico, tara trask, Tom Hagy|

If you're feeling bad about being a lawyer, or just maybe tingling with the holiday spirit of giving back, this episode is for you. Listen to three professionals (well, maybe two "professionals") who deeply admire for the legal profession, the important role attorneys play in society, and all the potential they have to make the world a better place. When there is strife, there is a supporting organization, and with them are lawyers. Wrongful convictions. Voting rights. Environmental protection. The rights of women, people of color, workers, LGBTQ, immigrants, asylum seekers. Lawyers are in a unique position to do something about all of this. And they do. And we hope more will. Join me as I interview nationally acclaimed trial consultant Tara Trask and music industry star-maker Jason Flom. Tara Trask is the President of Trask Consulting, a boutique litigation strategy, jury research and trial consulting firm. Tara focuses complex commercial litigation, from intellectual property to antitrust, from products liability to insurance, and oil and gas. She has extensive experience assisting institutions and individuals in matters involving regulatory enforcement and white-collar defense. Tara has been involved in more 450 jury trials. Music industry executive Jason Flom is CEO of Lava Records, Lava Music Publishing, and Lava Media, LLC. He is former CEO at Atlantic Records, Virgin Records and Capitol Music Group. [...]