Choosing the Right Lawyer is No ACCIDENT- A Personal Injury Guide - By Jeff Adelman (2025 Edition)

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Choosing the Right Lawyer is No AccidentJURY DUTY IS PATRIOTICWhenever I have a panel brought into a courtroom I ask them, “Who wasexcited about receiving their summons to report to jury duty?” Most ofthe time, nobody raises their hands.Let’s face it. Jury duty is inconvenient. It’s not something that anybodyreally wants to do. But it is necessary to uphold the democracy of theUnited States of America. The “Bill of Rights” of the U.S. Constitutionguarantees the right to a jury of your peers for Americans in civillawsuits.If you’re not serving in the military, there’s really no other way that youcan truly serve your country and protect democracy other than servingon a jury. I know all the jokes about getting off of jury duty, but thinkabout this the next time you get a jury summons, and remember that thepower really is with the people.Jeff Adelman, B.C.S., Esq. 57
Choosing the Right Lawyer is No AccidentJURY SELECTIONJury selection makes or breaks a case. It’s a fascinating psycho-logicalexercise.A panel of six jurors in Florida decide a personal injury dispute. TheCourt brings twenty to thirty people into the courtroom for a standardpersonal injury case like a car accident. The attorneys begin the VoirDire, the jury selection process. But really, it’s a “jury de-selection”process.Attorneys try to determine through their multiple questions (that couldtake hours, if not days, to complete) whether a potential juror is biased.The attorneys want to know if potential jurors brought in by the Courtcan be fair and impartial concerning the specific set of facts. A jurormight be able to sit and be fair and impartial for one type of case, butpossibly not on another. That’s what the jury selection process is allabout.If bias is determined by one of the attorneys, there are two different waysto remove someone from a jury panel. The first way is “striking forcause.” If somebody flat-out says that they can’t be fair and impartial toone of the parties, well, then that prospective juror should not be sittingon the panel at the end of the day.The other way is “peremptory challenges.” In Florida, each side getsthree peremptory challenges, meaning that the attorney can strike aperson for any reason, as long as it is not race-related. If, for example, apotential juror is wearing a scowl on their face only when one attorneyis talking, but they haven’t said anything that would strike them off thepanel, that attorney might want to strike this person from the panel usinga peremptory challenge. Again, each side only gets three, and mostattorneys feel like they never have enough.58Jeff Adelman, B.C.S., Esq.
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