The Medium Is The Message? Trying Your Case During The Pandemic

Link to Zoom recording of 9/15/2020 ABTL Program

Handouts for 9/15/2020 Program:
* Template for Virtual Bench Trial Pretrial Order
* Conducting Nonjury Trials by Use of Remote Video
* Remote Civil Bench Trials and Evidential Hearings: Outline & Resources

Bio’s of Judicial Panelists
Moderator: Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
Panelists: Judge Alan Albright
Judge Edward Chen
Judge Ann-Christine Massullo
Judge Evette Pennypacker

In his wildly influential book, Understanding Media (1964), Marshall McLuhan—who coined the phrases “global village” and “the medium is the message” — argued that the medium by which something is presented is more important than the content carried by that medium. Scary thought for the trial lawyer facing a virtual trial. Do different media demand different skills and different techniques? And what if the audience facing the small screen is less than raptly attentive? Or the audience in court is masked and encased in Plexiglass boxes?

Join our panel of distinguished trial judges — all of  whom have presided over trials, in-person or virtually, since the pandemic began—for a lively discussion of what it takes to present a compelling case in a socially distanced world.

MODERATOR
Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

PANELISTS
Hon. Alan Albright
U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
Hon. Edward Chen 
>U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

Hon. Anne-Christine Massullo
San Francisco Superior Court

Hon. Evette Pennypacker 

Santa Clara County Superior Court

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