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Lawyers, Implicit Bias and Burnout: 5 Steps to Self-Discovery

Attorney at Work

We form biases owing to our education, experience, culture and history. If you are exhibiting the symptoms of stress, you may have implicit biases that are conflicting with your conscious desires. In other words, you see what you look for — and we are always looking for evidence that our beliefs are correct.

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Legal Industry on the Brink: Generative AI Ushers in a New Era

Complex Discovery

The Code and Rules of Evidence Committee is also advancing efforts to define generative AI statutorily, emphasizing the need to safeguard the reliability and trustworthiness of legal evidence. The Florida Bar, a pioneer in framing AI guidelines, has issued recommendations involving AI usage in legal practices.

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HOW TO PREPARE YOUR CLIENT FOR THEIR DEPOSITION by Lita Luvera

Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

We know that once the juror forms an impression of your client and their story, it will influence how they view the evidence and issues in your cases. Not only will you get a much more thorough understanding of your client, but you will also find exhibits for Deposition and trial that you otherwise would have never discovered.

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Washington’s New Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act: Explanation, Application, and Aspiration

WA Bar News

The term is broad and includes all issues of parenting, child support, post-secondary education, decision making, activities, medical decisions, and more. But if there is testimony or oral evidence, the issues of how to record the evidence, preserve the evidence, and present it to a subsequent judicial officer must be considered and resolved.

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Mitigating the Effect of Confirmation Bias During Jury Selection and Deliberation

Jury Analyst

We discussed how bias can lead to biased evaluations of evidence and witness testimony and the tendency to favor information that aligns with pre-existing beliefs during jury deliberations. By this point, it should be clear that once we hold a belief, we are naturally inclined to notice only evidence that supports it.

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Strategies to Mitigate the Effect of Confirmation Bias During Jury Selection and Deliberation

Jury Analyst

We discussed how bias can lead to biased evaluations of evidence and witness testimony, as well as the tendency to favor information that aligns with preexisting beliefs during jury deliberations. However, by this point, hopefully it has been established that once we have a belief, we are predisposed only to see evidence that reinforces it.

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Strategies to Mitigate the Effect of Confirmation Bias During Jury Selection and Deliberation

Jury Analyst

We discussed how bias can lead to biased evaluations of evidence and witness testimony, as well as the tendency to favor information that aligns with preexisting beliefs during jury deliberations. However, by this point, hopefully it has been established that once we have a belief, we are predisposed only to see evidence that reinforces it.