They do something nice for you, you do something nice for them:
[Santa Ana, Calif. attorney] Daniel J. Callahan took respect for a jury to a whole new level. His client manufactured blood analyzers used to diagnose illnesses, and it claimed it was defrauded by a firm that supplied its circuit boards. The jury returned a verdict of $934 million. After it was over, he invited jurors to a party at his home. And sent limousines to pick them up.
“Oh my God,” some of his friends said. “You did that?”
“Yeah,” he told them. “It’s legal.”
— David Hechler, “Winning: Successful Trial Strategies from 10 of the Nation’s Top Litigators”, National Law Journal, Jun. 21 (PDF — reprinted at Akin Gump site). And from the same publication:
When his client’s recent rape trial ended in a hung jury, defense lawyer Joseph G. Cavallo decided to hire some of the jurors to get advice, to the tune of $50 an hour. While hiring a juror is not a crime or prohibited by professional conduct rules in most states, ethicists disagree about the propriety of the ever more common practice.”
— Leonard Post, “Hiring Former Jurors as Trial Consultants Catches On”, National Law Journal, Aug. 27. And see Sept. 13 and Sept. 17-19, 1999 (after jury deadlocks in tax fraud trial of eccentric NYC businessman Abe Hirschfeld, he hands each juror a check for $2,500; not seen as illegal; other cases cited).
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