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Labor/Employment

Feb. 12, 2004

Deck Is Stacked Against Minorities, Women in Job-Bias Cases

Forum Column - By David Benjamin Oppenheimer - Trial lawyers and social scientists look at jury verdicts from very different viewpoints and often find little on which to agree. Jury trials are bread and butter to the trial lawyer. Legal scholars who study litigation, however, increasingly see trials as pathological - a breakdown in the system in the same way that war is defined as the failure of diplomacy.

        Forum Column

        By David Benjamin Oppenheimer

        Trial lawyers and social scientists look at jury verdicts from very different viewpoints and often find little on which to agree. Jury trials are bread and butter to the trial la...

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