Abstract
Although trial consulting can be traced back to scientific jury selection attempts by social scientists in the 1960s, the list of services now provided by trial consultants has grown dramatically. In this chapter we provide an overview of the types of services that trial consultants tend to provide and identify paths for obtaining the competencies to provide these services.1 Note that although some consultants make a clear distinction between trial and jury consulting services, we will use the terms interchangeably.
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We acknowledge the generous assistance provided by Dan Wolfe and Keri Weber Sikich of Trial Graphix for their help with the online survey of ASTC members. We also thank Charli Morris and Julie Howe for their suggestions to the manuscript. Finally, a number of trial consultants shared their valuable time with us during sometimes-lengthy interviews; we thank them for their insight and time.
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Of course not all trial consultants are members of ASTC and not all members of ASTC consider themselves trial consultants. Although we have no way of knowing the degree to which ASTC members are representative of the population of trial consultants, we do know that membership is substantial in number (over 500 members) and in diversity, representing sole practitioners, firms of various sizes as well as academics and other professionals providing services to attorneys part-time.
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Stinson, V., Cutler, B.L. (2011). Training of Trial Consultants. In: Wiener, R., Bornstein, B. (eds) Handbook of Trial Consulting. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7569-0_15
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