I know many men who put on wedding rings for jury trials and include comments in their examinations about their family and kids. I was shocked the first time I saw it, but it’s a common phenomenon. Juries like family men, and married men over single men, apparently.
— an unnamed female partner at the New York office of an Am Law firm, commenting on her colleagues who try to use the “daddy card” to gain an advantage in court.
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