Sarah E. Murray

Sarah E. Murray, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
Trial Behavior Consulting, Inc.,
San Francisco office

Sarah Murray is a social/cultural anthropologist with special expertise in designing and evaluating mock trials, developing demonstrative exhibits, writing persuasive opening and closing statements, and conducting post-trial interviews. She combines training in statistics with expert knowledge of qualitative research methods and analysis, including sociolinguistic analysis and cross-cultural communication, media content analysis, focus groups, and qualitative interviewing.

A Fulbright scholar and Social Science Council Research Fellow, Sarah conducted two years of field research in Indonesia and is currently completing her dissertation at the University of California at Berkeley. She has experience as a professional writer and media worker, including a two-year stint doing PR and research for a major political campaign. While pursuing graduate studies, she taught anthropology, and qualitative research methods and analysis at Berkeley, twice winning campus-wide teaching awards. She is a member of the American Anthropological Association and the National Association of Practicing Anthropologists.

Trial Behavior Consulting, Inc. is one of the nation's leading trial and jury consulting services companies, with offices in five cities and specializations in numerous practice areas.