Personal Expertise in Legal Decision Making

Kiser, Randall

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Personal Expertise in Legal Decision Making

Randall Kiser²

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Abstract

Each phase of litigation, from the initial case evaluation to the ultimate settlement or verdict, presents unique obstacles to effective decision making. This chapter presents 45 concrete steps to overcome those obstacles, relating each step to a specific litigation phase. These steps, derived from extensive research by psychologists, law professors and economists, demonstrate how attorneys and clients can challenge and reconfigure their perceptions, define and analyze problems in multiple dimensions and develop and test numerous alternative solutions. Collectively, the steps empower attorneys and clients and alert them to their adversaries’ biases, oversights and occasional artifice as they move toward case resolution.

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