Roy Futterman, Ph.D. In the fourteenth edition of his weekly column in Law360, DOAR’s real-life New York City Jury Consultant and Psychologist reviews the fictional NYC Jury Consultant/Psychologist on the television series “Bull,” focusing on what litigation is really like in the trenches. [Spoiler Alert]…         This week, the team is told that they will not be able to hack into computer networks nor can they do anything sneaky, so they will be forced to do jury consulting like us muggles. They do not, but that is at least the premise. The Case of the Leaky Soldier

Expert Witness Testimony Key In $500 Million Verdict Against Facebook Subsidiary Earlier this month, a Texas federal jury determined that Oculus, a subsidiary of Facebook, and some of its executives must pay $500 million in damages to video game developer ZeniMax Media for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and breach of a non-disclosure agreement. Oculus Chief Technology Officer John Carmack, a former employee of ZeniMax, was also found liable for conversion. The suit was premised upon ZeniMax’s claims that Oculus built its virtual reality technology (i.e., headsets) using software code and ideas stolen during Carmack’s tenure with ZeniMax. The crux of

Roy Futterman, Ph.D. In the thirteenth edition of his weekly column in Law360, DOAR’s real-life New York City Jury Consultant and Psychologist reviews the fictional NYC Jury Consultant/Psychologist on the television series “Bull,” focusing on what litigation is really like in the trenches. [Spoiler Alert]…         This episode was calm, even sedate, and featured an actually sympathetic three-dimensional defendant. The jury consulting techniques were close to realistic and sophisticated. Not a single felony was committed by anyone on Bull’s staff. All is forgiven! This affords us an opportunity, much requested by our far-flung readers ranging from the

Congratulations to our clients Grant Fondo, Derek Cohen, Rushank Shah, Sylvia Ewald and the rest of the Goodwin Procter trial team on the successful defense of their client Ashish Aggarwal. Following a 1 week trial before Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr., the Central District of California jury deliberated for 4 days before finding former JP Morgan Analyst Ash Aggarwal not guilty on 26 counts related to alleged insider trading. Judge Hatter declared a mistrial on the remaining 4 counts when the jury declared they were deadlocked. This was the 1st jury trial in the new state of the art U.S

The Eastern District of Texas continued in its efforts to compel attorneys to report on all pre-trial jury research including the names of all of the research participants who might otherwise be in the jury pool for the actual trial. Although these measures may be surprising in the modern litigation environment in which pre-trial research in high dollar cases is routinely and matter-of-factly administered, these orders appear to stem from a concern that the venire has a limited number of qualified jurors. In a January 3 order on the patent case 3rd Eye Surveillance, LLC v. The City of Fort

Roy Futterman, Ph.D. In the twelveth edition of his weekly column in Law360, DOAR’s real-life New York City Jury Consultant and Psychologist reviews the fictional NYC Jury Consultant/Psychologist on the television series “Bull,” focusing on what litigation is really like in the trenches. [Spoiler Alert]…         In this episode, with a story credited to Dr. Phil himself, a woman blows up a bomb and takes hostages in order to get jury consulting services. I should be flattered. The Case of the Easily Convinced Bomber This episode is so outlandish that it may be a “Mulholland Drive”-esque last

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