Brooklyn Bar Association discusses jury selection in a changing Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA) hosted a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar on June 27 with Justice Ellen Spodek titled “Jury Selection in a ‘New’ Brooklyn: Hipsters, Transplants and Millennials.”
The lecture, held in Brooklyn Heights, was designed to offer tips to civil attorneys who have been forced to adjust to jury pools that have been affected by a rapidly changing demographic within Brooklyn over the last 20 years.
“The last time the Brooklyn Bar put on a jury selection CLE was about 10 years ago,” said John Bonina, the chair of the BBA’s Medical Malpractice Committee. “As I thought [about] that, I realized that there have been a lot of changes in trials and the way cases are tried — and in fact, as a lifelong Brooklyn resident, I’ve seen a lot of changes to Brooklyn itself over the last 10 years. So I thought this would be a good topic to focus on.”