Jury Trials, Though In Decline, Are Well Worth Preserving

By Stephen Susman (April 23, 2019, 9:09 PM EDT) -- In a recent Law360 guest article, author J.B. Heaton applauds the disappearance of jury trials because he thinks lawyers who try cases to juries are "con men and charlatans" and jurors are "gullible." He tries to justify their disappearance by claiming that jury trials are costly to jurors and lawyers (he must mean "parties" since the trial lawyers I know usually get paid for going to court)....

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