Joe and Kathryn talk with Tom O'Toole, President of Sound Jury Consulting, about the trial consultant profession and how COVID will impact trials going forward. O'Toole discusses a major survey he just completed suggesting that the next several months could see a dramatic pro-corporate turn in courtrooms across the country -- just another unexpected effect of the pandemic.

Highlights

• An interesting shift - 1:40
• Tom's background - 3:04
• What is happening with juries - 4:05
• What does his company do? - 4:31
• Being a jury consulter - 6:02
• A survey about juries - 8:47
• Emotions and uncertainty - 10:33
• The survey's results about the pandemic - 11:30
• Increase of cases during the pandemic - 13:01
• The data of their survey - 17:38
• Judges and trials in the future - 21:20

Episode Resources

• Connect with Kathryn Rubino and Joe Patrice
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• Connect with Tom O'Toole
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• http://www.soundjuryconsulting.com/