Welcoming new names to reference list
March 30, 2010
Magnus is pleased to announce new additions to our reference list. The latest attorneys to honor us by allowing us to list them as satisfied clients are: Steven A. Rothenburg, Esq. of Ocala, FL; Richard A. Jarolem, Esq. of West Palm Beach; and Roy R. Watson, Esq., also of West Palm Beach.
2010 Courthouses of Florida Calendar
December 18, 2009
Magnus' 13th edition of its Courthouses of Florida® Calendar has been published. It is mailed each December to several hundred attorneys statewide and distributed at various Bar Association functions. The photographs by Magnus partner, David Fauss, are archived on Magnus' website in a courthouse gallery.
Congratulations!
December 16, 2009
Congratulations to John Bell (Augusta, GA) and Steven Rothenburg (Ocala, FL) for their victory in Steve Haines, et al. v. Black Diamond Properties, Inc., et al.
Dr. Pigott Presents "Litigation Lessons Learned"
July 24, 2009
Dr. Melissa Pigott presented "Litigation Lessons Learned: Risk Assessment through Mock Jury Research Case Challenges and Results" to over 100 claims professionals at The Travelers Companies in Tampa and Orlando, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Pigott Recently Cited in the "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied"
May 15, 2009
The doctoral dissertation of Magnus' Director of Research, Dr. Melissa Pigott, was recently cited as determining the foundational limits of the strength of eyewitness memory. Inaccurate eyewitness memory has been noted as one of the leading causes of false convictions. Dr. Pigott's study was groundbreaking in that it was a real world field study of the ability of bank tellers to identify a perpetrator in a staged crime. The dissertation was published in 1990 and is unique in that it was a field, not laboratory, study involving adults in a real world setting instead of college students. As such, the authors of a fall, 2008 article in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied found Dr. Pigott's research to provide the upper limit for the accuracy of eyewitnesses upon which all other assessments of such witnesses should be based. The article concludes that eyewitnesses, under optimal conditions, perform at about a 50% accuracy level, that is, a chance level.
For more information, see:
Deffenbacher, K.A., Bornstein, B.H., Mc Gorty, E.K., & Penrod, S.D. (2008). Forgetting the one-seen face: Estimating the strength of eyewitnesss memory representation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14, 139-150.
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