PART II The Legal Framework

Jared C. Bennett1

DOI: 10.4324/9781003387800-6

For the past three days, the executive director of a nonprofit organization could not sleep, eat, or focus on work. Her acute agitation stemmed from knowing that for three days, a jury of 12 strangers had been deliberating her future and that of the nonprofit organization she founded and worked so hard to build for the past decade.

As she was yet again allowing her mind to wander to what the jurors might be thinking, she received the call that she desperately wanted but also greatly feared. The voice of her attorney—with which she had become all too familiar over the past three years of litigation—somberly said, The court just called. The jury has finally reached a ...

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