Nationally recognized jury consultant, blending the strategic focus of game theory with the behavioral insights of social psychology to help litigators understand how jurors receive, process, understand and act on information presented at trial. Focus on creating a truly collaborative partnership with your trial team to identify and address the particular strategic challenges of your case.

Edward P. Schwartz is a Consultant in DecisionQuest's Boston office. In his role, Dr. Schwartz provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of jury behavior to provide clients with feedback on case themes, strategies, evidence, witnesses, and presentation style. Dr. Schwartz is noted for his ability to blend the strategic focus of game theory and decision theory with the real-world insights of social psychology to gain a complete picture of how people absorb, analyze, and process information.In addition to his consulting experience, Dr. Schwartz has an impressive history and background in higher education, teaching, and academic research. He has published numerous articles about the American jury system in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals as well as taught about juries and jury trials to undergraduates and law students at Harvard, Yale, and Boston University. Dr. Schwartz serves as a regular resource for local and national media outlets reporting on high profile jury trials.

Nationally recognized expert in jury information processing, decision-making, and deliberations.I assist clients with all aspects of litigation, including communications strategy, witness preparation, exhibit design, pre-trial jury research, jury selection and in-court consultations. TrialGraphix is the nation's premier full-service litigation consulting firm, meeting all graphics, trial technology and jury consulting needs for the savvy trial lawyer.

Largest American Association of trial consulting professionals. Co-Chair of Pro Bono and Awards Committee.Head of New England Team for Pro Bono Initiative.

I started The Jury Box as a newsletter in 2003 and moved it over to the web as a blog a few years later. I file posts about jury research, jury decision-making, jury trial strategy and judicial reform. It's free to subscribe!

* Provide expertise on jury behavior in ongoing cases.* Design, implement and analyze mock jury research exercises.* Prepare witnesses for depositions and testimony* Develop juror profile for voir dire and jury selection* Assist in drafting questions for voir dire, both judge and attorney conducted* In court assistance with jury selection

• Courses Taught: “Trial by Jury” and “Capital Punishment.”• Conducted research on Jury Instructions, Racial Profiling, and Takings Law.

Contributed regular column on jury trial strategy, aimed at litigators and risk managers.

• Course Taught: “The Role of the Jury in a Democratic Society.”

• Course Taught: “The Politics of Judicial Decision-making.”• Conducted Research on Jury Decision-making and Rule of Law Values in Judicial Decision-making.

• Courses Taught: “The Role of the Jury in a Democratic Society,” “Game Theory and Social Choice Theory for Political Science,” “Advanced Modeling of Political Processes,” and “Policy-making in a Separation of Powers System.”• Graduate Research Workshops Supervised: “American Politics,” and “Positive Political Theory.”• Conducted Research on Collective Decision-making in bureaucratic agencies, jury decision-making in capital cases, local-central governmental relations in Japan, the structure of jury deliberations.

• Conducted Research on Peremptory Challenges and Concurring Opinion-writing on the United States Supreme Court.