Nick Polavin, PhD

Senior Jury Consultant Contractor

Dr. Nick Polavin is a Co-Founder and Senior Jury Consultant at JuryConnect, where he partners with trial teams nationwide to provide strategic support throughout the litigation process. His work includes focus group and mock trial facilitation, research design, developing themes and strategies for trial, witness preparation, community attitude surveys, statistical analysis for juror profiling, daily trial monitoring, and conducting shadow juries. Dr. Polavin also regularly assists attorneys in court with jury selection and voir dire strategies and has worked on nearly 100 in his career. In fact, Dr. Polavin has selected juries in four cases that have been rated in Courtroom View Networks’ Top 10 Most Impressive Defense Verdicts of the year.

With a strong academic foundation in communication and psychology, Nick’s research centers on jurors’ information processing styles, their biases, and how they determine damages. He has conducted research on a number of additional topics, including group dynamics, decision making, persuasion, and conspiracy beliefs. Prior to his career as a jury consultant, Nick taught college courses on persuasion and strategic communication.



Dr. Polavin is based in Charlotte, NC but works across the country on a variety of matters including mass torts, product liability, medical malpractice, intellectual property, breach of contract, insurance coverage, and criminal cases.