Author: David Scott Davis
Alternate names: David S. Davis
Born: 1961
Bio: **David Scott Davis** (1961-)

David Davis is a founder of R&D Strategic Solutions, and specializes in the
development of trial strategy and tactics; jury selection and voir dire; shadow juries; witness preparation and more.

He studied at Rutgers University achieved a high distinction for his Artium Baccalaureatus degree in Sociology and went onto the London School of Economics and Political Science to his Master's Degree in Economics.  He then continued onto Princeton University to gain both his Masters and Doctorate in Sociology.

His working career started in the 1980's when he too the post as Sociologist at the Department of Justice (1980–1982).  He then joint the Sociology Faculty as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (1982–1984) whist there he was Project Director at *Psychometrics* (1983–1984).

On leaving the university he became Managing Director and Director of Research at *Litigation Sciences, Inc.* (1984–1989).  After which he taken on as Senior Vice President at *DecisionQuest, Inc.* (1989–2001).

He is now a post-doctoral Fellow (Research and Evaluation) with the University of California Los Angeles.

The author of the National Law Journal Annual Juror Outlook Survey, as well as a survey for the Wall Street Journal on the concept of the stealth juror, he is frequently quoted by publications like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

**Selected Publications**

 - Some Juror Rules for Determining Damages, The Jury Expert, September 2008.
 - Who Should Speak For You? Inside Litigation, Winter 2006.
 - Giving into Fear of Biased Jurors is Self-Defeating, National Law Journal, January 30, 2006.
 - The Myth of Primacy and Recency at Trial: Tell Stories Instead, TortSource, Summer 2003, Vol. 5, Issue 4.
 - Jury Selection in Race Discrimination Cases by David S. Davis, Michael P. Zweig, and Mark J. Goldberg, in New York Employment Law and Practice, November 2002
 - What Are Jurors Thinking?, The Brief, American Bar Association Tort & Insurance Practice Section, Fall 2002, Vol. 32, No. 1
 - Communicating with a Jury, Litigation Services Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, 2001
 - Simple Does Not Mean Better The Importance of Juror Roles, or Souce, Publication of The American Bar Association, Summer 2001
 - Y2K Litigation From Jurors Perspective by Galina Davidoff and David Davis, in the Y2K Advisor, Vol. 2, No. 7, February 2000
 - Year 2000 Litigation: Jurors Perspective in The Year 2000 Computer Crisis, Glasser Legal Works, 1999
 - Wanted: A Good Trial Lawyer to Take My Case to Court, Coporate Legal Times, September 1998
 - Volume of Expert Testimony Turns Jurors into Believers, Corporate Legal Times, July 1998
 - In Employment Lawsuits Evidence Can be Secondary, Corporate Legal Times, June 1998
 - On Damages, a Jury is Difﬁcult to Figure, The National Law Journal, April 1997
 - Jury Persuasion: Psychological Strategies and Trial Techniques, Prentice Hall, 1996
 - Litigators Should Be Aware of the Uses of Deceptive Graphic Evidence, Inside Litigation, 1994
 - When and When Not to Use a Juror Questionnaire, Corporate Legal Times, 1993
 - Witness Credibility: How Important Is It?, For the Defense, 1992
 - Good People Doing Dirty Work: A Study of Social Isolation in Sociological Studies: Introductory Readings from an Interactionist Perspective, 1991
 - The Production of Crime Policies, Crime and Social Justice, 1986
 - Scapegoat Occupations: The Case of the Bail Bondsman, in Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control, 1984