jurors

Searching for Details Online, Lawyers Facebook the Jury

Ana Campoy and Ashby Jones, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 22, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Facebook is increasingly being used in courts to decide who is–and who isn’t–suitable to serve on a jury, the latest way in which the social-networking site is altering the U.S. court system.

Twelve Twittering Men?

Ashby Jones, Editor, Law Blog, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 18, 2009 at 12:12 pm PT

We here at the Law Blog have been called for jury duty several times (in New York City, it feels like an annual event), but have never been picked to sit. It’s probably a good thing, because, despite our legal training and basic understanding of how trials work, we’d find it excruciating to not be able to use Google to do our own research on issues that arise in the case.