Boston Legal is a spin-off of the long-running David E. Kelley series The Practice (1997), following the exploits of former Practice character Alan Shore (James Spader) at the legal firm of Crane, Poole, and Schmidt. Stars: James Spader, William Shatner, Candice Bergen, Rene Auberjonois. Votes: 45,495. 7.
Ed-Shullivan 21 September 2016. Although the premise of Bull may have some merit, which is the story of a very good looking Dr. Jason Bull (starring Michael Weatherly) who owns a company named Trial Analysis Corporation, and whose life ambition is to be able to read people, including lawyers, judges, perpetrators but especially prospective jurors so that his clients will win their …
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Oct 03, 2016 · Dr. Bull’s assistant tells the clients that the company runs mirror juries that can be “scary” in their ability to accurately predict the outcome of a trial. The show implies that mock trials and mirror jurors aim to predict exactly how a case will turn out – from the verdict to the amount of damages awarded to the plaintiff. via latimes.com
Bull claims to be able to know how every juror will vote (and what they’re thinking throughout the trial) by analyzing their backgrounds and nonverbal cues. At one point, he claims that 93% of all communication is nonverbal, and he has the training and special ability to read these behaviors accurately.
It is important to understand that people cannot be reduced to a perfect formula, but many of them can be understood, reached out to, communicated with and persuaded – and jury research is a way to learn how best to do that with a given audience.
With the new TV series Bull, airing Tuesdays on CBS, the field of trial consulting is getting a little more attention than it’s used to. The show, starring Michael Weatherly (formerly of NCIS) as Dr. Jason Bull, is loosely based on the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, who began his work at a Texas-based consulting firm. The pilot episode included all the dramatics and bells and whistles that one would expect from prime-time television, leaving some to contemplate its accuracy. While the show accurately depicts some aspects of trial consulting, it takes poetic license in a number of areas. Below, we examine the representations made in the pilot episode to cull fact from fiction.
In the pilot episode, Dr. Bull shows his client an ultra-high-tech juror monitoring system, complete with over a dozen flat screens and devices that monitor mock jurors’ physiological reactions through palm-reading devices. He claims to have a system, exclusively used by Homeland Security, to collect a wealth of information about jurors and their family members that could not be obtained elsewhere.
Trial consultants may also be experts in Communication, Linguistics, Sociology, and even Theatre.
Several times during the show, Dr. Bull tells his assistant, “I hate attorneys” and claims that attorneys are the enemy. He not only dislikes them, but he also distrusts them (to the point he even steals an attorney’s watch to put a tracking device on it).
However, Dr. Bull’s claim that 93% of communication is nonverbal is exaggerated, and researchers can’t agree on a quantifiable percentage of communication that is non-verbal, particularly because this number is likely to vary by person.
The killing of a fifteen-year-old-boy rocks the nation, as a Sikh classmate of the boy is charged with the murder. The trial, which is engulfed in protests and media speculation, brings together twelve jurors who find themselves having to make a decision for which the entire country is waiting. — Chazzy B
In season one, episode one, a computer screen list showing the names of potential jury members contains the names of fourteen characters from The Bill (1984).
By what name was The Jury (2002) officially released in India in English?