Judges and Judiciary
Dec. 20, 2023
Optimizing justice means the days should be long, but the trial short
If we want the jury system to survive, judges and lawyers will have to pull together to reduce the costs and increase the speed of jury trials. Lawyers must accept that their trials will be shorter than they want, and judges must be ready to ruthlessly hold litigants to account.
Meredith Osborn
Partner and Member of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
LLP 's White Collar Defense & Investigations group
Phone: (415) 554-4236
Email: meredith.osborn@sfcityatty.org
Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA
For a litigator, a trial is a right-of-passage. For some, it is the sine qua non of lawyering. One cannot conceive of an opera singer who never takes the stage, or a baseball player who only hits balls in a batting cage. And yet today's litigators may spend their entire careers going through the laborious processes of discovery and motions without ever treading the metaphorical boards or sidling up to the metaphorical plate. We live in an era where fourth year associa...
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