We really wrote the book Jurywork®: Systematic Techniques By NJP Litigation Consulting: Elissa Krauss, General Editor; Sonia Chopra, Ph.D., Associate Editor (West Publishing, 2nd Edition)
Jurywork® is the field’s most comprehensive encyclopedia of how to effectively prepare for any jury trial. Updated annually, this two-volume set delivers the latest in jury selection and trial strategy as well as expert advice, research methods, sample questionnaires and practical information.
ABA Journal describes Jurywork®: Systematic Techniques as “a well-written, highly practical reference guide and training manual that offers a workable, integrated approach to jury selection.”
Jurywork Update: New Chapter on Batson and Discriminatory use of Peremptory Challenges
We are excited to offer this year’s update which features a brand new, completely rewritten Chapter 4 titled “Batson and the Discriminatory Use of Peremptory Challenges in the 21st Century” authored by Elisabeth Semel, Clinical Professor of Law at of U.C. Berkeley Law School and Director of its Death Penalty Clinic who prepared amicus curiae briefs in several U.S. Supreme Court cases dealing with race discrimination in jury selection, including Miller-El v. Dretke and Snyder v.Louisiana and Tom Meyer, a civil rights lawyer who co-authored the original Batson chapter for Jurywork: Systematic Techniques, and wrote the seminal article on the California Supreme Court’s Wheeler decision.
This chapter provides the most comprehensive and up to date resource for enabling a trial lawyer facing a Batson issue in any jurisdiction in the country to win a motion at trial and/or to posture the case for a successful appeal. Not only do the authors clarify the Batson 3-step framework based on recent developments in Supreme Court jurisprudence, they also: (a) expand the case law to include opinions from all the federal circuits with examples of state court opinions throughout the U.S., (b) discuss the importance of objections that are based on state constitutional and statutory grounds when those are more helpful than federal constitutional law and, (c) alert trial lawyers to the importance of making the record for appeal--and how to make it.
