Interpreting Nothing: Listening For The Unexpressed In Mock Trials 
DOAR Litigation Consulting Opens Offices in Houston 
Meet the Experts and Experience the Technology at LegalTech 
Predictive Coding Experts Join Forces 
Film Reviews for White Collar Criminal Defendants: Unraveled 
What else is your jury consultant seeing in mock trial deliberations? As we have been discussing, there is a wealth of meaningful, interpretable data hidden in the gaps in a mock trial deliberation. In addition to measuring articulated verbal content (written and oral), it is important for consultants to read meaningful behavioral indicators of how mock
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For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Houston, Texas and New York – DOAR Litigation Consulting LLC, one of the country’s largest trial consulting firms, has announced the opening of its office in Houston to better support law firms and corporate legal departments dealing with litigation pending in Texas and throughout the country. The expansion
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DOAR’s ESI advisory and predictive coding experts will be joining OrcaTec’s technology team at LegalTech this year to walk you through the practical application of Computer Assisted Review (CAR) and demonstrating OrcaPredict, the first CAR to pass judicial muster in the US. The successful implementation of any automated review technology requires expertise in the
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DOAR Partners with OrcaTec For Best-in-Class eDiscovery and Information Governance New York and Atlanta (December 17, 2012) – DOAR Litigation Consulting LLC, whose CEO has been an expert on the use of predictive coding in two seminal cases on predictive coding, and OrcaTec, the predictive coding technology that was chosen to be used in a third
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As a New York-based litigation consulting firm, one of the things we at DOAR are most known for is our work on high-profile Wall Street white collar crime cases. Partly because of these experiences, we were riveted by Marc H. Simon’s documentary about the convicted fraud Marc Dreier called Unraveled. This documentary takes place during
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Attorneys often ask whether they should do focus groups or a mock trial; many may see them as interchangeable. And, while both pre-trial research methods can be useful, they do serve different purposes. Focus groups are better at a more preliminary stage in the development of the case, when themes are being identified and their
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How do you prepare a witness when a tough cross looms on the horizon? As we have been discussing, it is often possible to teach a witness to do more than present a strong defense on cross. Sometimes your witness can also present a strong offense. In a situation when you expect a particularly difficult
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Amidst growing concern about jurors doing online research about cases on which they serve, judges and judicial groups have sought new ways to deter this behavior. They have expanded jury instructions on the issue, elicited signed pledges from jurors, and threatened or even imposed sanctions for violators. Two recent efforts are noteworthy, one fairly traditional
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S2 Automation LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc., No. CIV 11-0884 JB/WDS In this New Mexico federal district court case, defendant Micron Technology argued that counsel for plaintiff S2 Automation failed to fulfill its ediscovery duties, creating the real possibility that non-privileged information was not disclosed. The Court required as part of its ediscovery-related order that
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