We challenge the habit of late-stage theme building and show why persuasion in civil trials starts six to twelve months out. Using cognitive science, psychometrics, and language framing, we map a path to a single, coherent story that jurors accept with confidence. • why jurors construct stories rather than tally facts • the risk of inferred events and causal gaps • the four pillars of story acceptance coverage, coherence, completeness, uniqueness • mapping narrative features to legal element...
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We challenge the habit of late-stage theme building and show why persuasion in civil trials starts six to twelve months out. Using cognitive science, psychometrics, and language framing, we map a path to a single, coherent story that jurors accept with confidence. • why jurors construct stories rather than tally facts • the risk of inferred events and causal gaps • the four pillars of story acceptance coverage, coherence, completeness, uniqueness • mapping narrative features to legal element...
Generic AI tools present serious risks for attorneys including hallucinated legal facts, confidentiality breaches, and strategic failures that can lead to sanctions and case dismissals. • Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT create "hallucinations" - confidently stated but completely fabricated legal information including non-existent cases with fake names and citations • Courts have sanctioned attorneys who submitted AI-generated fake cases, as in Mata v. Avianca and cases involving Ja...
Science of Justice
We challenge the habit of late-stage theme building and show why persuasion in civil trials starts six to twelve months out. Using cognitive science, psychometrics, and language framing, we map a path to a single, coherent story that jurors accept with confidence. • why jurors construct stories rather than tally facts • the risk of inferred events and causal gaps • the four pillars of story acceptance coverage, coherence, completeness, uniqueness • mapping narrative features to legal element...
