{"id":11,"date":"2011-10-23T05:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T05:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2022-04-28T04:11:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T04:11:12","slug":"summary-jury-trials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/summary-jury-trials","title":{"rendered":"Summary Jury Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Summary Jury Trials <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are those cases that \u2013 despite everyone\u2019s best efforts \u2013 won\u2019t settle at mediation. In recent years we have been experimenting with a new and innovative dispute resolution technique \u2013 the summary jury trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">What is an SJT?<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Summary jury trials are conducted in a real courtroom, using real jurors from the central jury pool, and a presiding neutral.<\/p>\n<p>The case is presented to the jury in a summarized format, usually in an hour or two per side. The jury deliberates and returns a verdict on the same day. The SJT is usually followed that evening, or the next day, by mediation. Success rates in these mediations are startling.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">What cases are candidates for an SJT?<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are the usual criteria: a case needs to have been unsuccessfully mediated, be on the eve of trial, a case that will take at least one week to try, and not settled due to a disparity in the evaluations of liability and\/or damages.<\/p>\n<p>Will Pryor has experience in coordinating, facilitating, and presiding over a dozen summary jury trials.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Commonly Used Summary Jury Trials Forms:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willpryor.com\/images\/icon_PDF.gif\" alt=\"PDF Form\" width=\"11\" height=\"11\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willpryor.com\/downloads\/Agreed%20Summary%20Jury%20Trial%20Order.pdf\">Agreed Summary Jury Trial Order<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willpryor.com\/images\/icon_PDF.gif\" alt=\"PDF Form\" width=\"11\" height=\"11\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willpryor.com\/downloads\/Agreement%20Regarding%20SJT%20Rules.pdf\">Agreement Regarding SJT Rules<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Jury Trials There are those cases that \u2013 despite everyone\u2019s best efforts \u2013 won\u2019t settle at mediation. In recent years we have been experimenting with a new and innovative dispute resolution technique \u2013 the summary jury trial. What is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/summary-jury-trials\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}