Resolving malpractice disputes: imaging the jury's shadow.

The trial went very poorly from the beginning. The jury was comprised of about an even split of men/women and black/whites-five jurors did not have a high school education and three slept through goodly portions of the trial. The plaintiff's lawyer was very aggressive .... It was a fiasco from beginning to end. The judge was clearly angry at our failure to settle and talked with us three times during the trial [about settling]. The jury was out 14 minutes and came back with a $750,000 verdict [in a case that we could have settled for $150,000 two weeks ago].'