Them Too: Picking a Sexual Harassment Jury Gets Personal

When high-profile sexual harassment defense lawyer Gerald Maatman enters a courtroom, he wants to see the jury box filled with older men.

“Older jurors tend to have a longer attention span,” says Maatman, who represents the Weinstein Co. in various cases stemming from allegations of assault and harassment against founder Harvey Weinstein. “If you’ve seen and successfully navigated some of these issues in the workplace over the years, you may have a more measured idea of how businesses work,” he told Bloomberg Law.

The question in many of Maatman’s cases is whether a company should be legally liable for bad ...