On any given day, in courtrooms across the country, trial lawyers may look out on a prospective jury panel and see no less than four generations sitting in the jury box: the Silent Generation, baby boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y, also known as millennials. Anecdotally, in recent years the commonly heard refrain from battle-tested defense lawyers was to remove the token millennial from a jury panel automatically because it was believed that millennials typically were “pro-plaintiff” jurors. For the purposes of this article, we will set aside for another day the debate over whether millennial jurors are “pro-plaintiff” or something else entirely.
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