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Back to EpisodesWhat Lawyers Miss When They Skip the Science
Season 2
Episode 36
Published 9 hours ago
Description
- Explores why internal agreement inside the trial war room often creates false confidence rather than real trial readiness.
- Breaks down the hidden psychological forces shaping plaintiff trial strategy, including confirmation bias, hierarchy bias, and overconfidence.
- Examines the critical gap between internal clarity (how lawyers understand a case) and juror clarity (how real decision-makers process it).
- Reveals why traditional focus groups and demographic profiling frequently produce misleading signals about verdict risk.
- Introduces psychographic analysis as a method for identifying hidden resistance profiles before jurors ever enter deliberations.
- Demonstrates how elite plaintiff teams move from opinion-based preparation to measurable behavioral analytics.
- Explains deliberation modeling and how persuasion decay can dismantle even strong plaintiff narratives behind closed jury-room doors.
- Shows how social dominance dynamics influence verdict outcomes more than initial juror opinions.
- Outlines how structured dissent and red-team analysis eliminate internal echo chambers within trial teams.
- Reframes trial preparation as behavioral systems engineering — shifting from instinct-driven advocacy to calibrated decision strategy.
- Provides a practical framework for pressure-testing case themes, witnesses, and damages arguments before trial begins.
- Challenges trial teams to replace confidence built on consensus with confidence grounded in measurable risk signals.
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