This is my talk on jury selection—the law, the science, and the practice—from the State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course in San Antonio in July 2012. [jwplayer mediaid="4545"] My accompanying paper on Texas's law of jury selection is here. My paper on simple rules for better jury selection is here.

Blake Knight at Legal Brand Marketing is still at it: sending strangers emails revealing the secrets of people who think they're contacting a lawyer: State = TX County = TARRANT City = Date Arrested = First Name = Brendan Comments = I was in a drunk driving incident in which I was travelling the wrong way on a one way street and had a collision with another

Caught on video (via Lisa Simeone, TSA News): TSA goons training travelers to be unquestioningly compliant. 

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"It is not true that if you devote most of your attention to marketing, [lawyering and administration] will suffer. It will simply mean that you need to hire or outsource." This little gem of wisdom comes from a comment on this post at Lawyerist.com. The comment's author is Mark Merenda, who is—you guessed it—in the business of selling marketing to lawyers. Is Merenda's position—that "Marketing is job one.

On 18 September the aiding suicide case that Dionne Press neglected and that I offered to work on for free (which caused Press to try to get the DA's Office to file charges or a grievance against me) was no-billed by the grand jury of the 351st District Court. So I was right in predicting that result (to be honest, the outcome was a no-brainer, which is why Press should have

When she filled out a form on a website looking for a lawyer to defend her in a DWI case, do you think it occurred to Ms. Dilworth that the boneheads she was sending her information to would be forwarding it to a bunch of strangers, none of whom were bound by attorney-client privilege?  I kid. Of course it didn't occur to her (here's the sort of

Donald Collins, now twenty-seven,  is accused of burning Robbie Middleton when Collins was thirteen and Middleton was eight. Middleton died last year of a cancer that "only comes from enduring multiple, painful skin grafts for serious burns." Montgomery County, Texas is considering charging Collins as an adult, but in 1998 a juvenile had to be at least fourteen years old to be certified as an adult. It

Jordan Rushie asks (rhetorically), Should I run my law firm on Apple? (a stupid post Greenfield and Tannebaum will laugh at), and compares this question to another: It’s like asking if you prefer to eat eggs for breakfast or cereal. It’s a preference. It won’t win the trial or make you lots of money anymore than your Fruit Loops will. Rushie overstates the importance of the question

Just the facts: On the 29th of August I got in the mail the State's Motion to Disclose Experts in a case set for trial next Tuesday. The same day the District Clerk's office notified me that the judge had granted the State's motion. Here's a portion of Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 3.05: A lawyer shall not…except as otherwise permitted by law and not prohibited by