Civil Procedure
Jul. 29, 2026
California's new jury selection law changes the rules of the voir dire game
California's new jury selection rules dramatically reshape peremptory challenges, raising the bar for striking prospective jurors and demanding closer scrutiny of bias in the selection process.
As a trial lawyer by trade but salesman by prior life experience, I used to reject cliché about the singular importance of jury selection, believing instead that salesmanship techniques I used in selling life insurance door to door could be applied in the same convincing fashion to facts of a case and how those facts can prove a claim. To say I've been educated otherwise is putting it mildly. From the juror who tried to sell Omaha Steaks to the other jurors during deliberatio...
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