Stephen Sugarman quoted in The Bakersfield Californian, July 23, 2012
It’s common in large-scale personal injury litigation for both sides to see how the first few trials go before deciding how to dispose of the rest of them, said Stephen Sugarman, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. “Both sides are treating each jury case as an experiment,” he said. “They see what works and what doesn’t before a jury. If they have a bad witness, they switch them out. After a while, a pattern emerges.”