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Trucking Discovery - Request for Production
Posted on August 09, 2007Trucking cases require - as most will tell you - different discovery than other cases. Here is a thorough Request for Production of Documents that you can use in full or in part: Will a Defendant fight your request? Probably: Copy of defendant’s document retention policy...
Crazy Pants Lawyer Gets Zero: The System Works
Posted on June 25, 2007My friend and fellow consumer justice lawyer Joe Watkins wrote this in response to the zero verdict today in that case better known as the crazy pants lawsuit: The administrative law judge, Roy Pearson of Washington DC, who sued a drycleaners over a pair of pants lost in court today...
Direct Examination: The Sponsorship Theory
Posted on June 21, 2007The more cases I try and the more I read about trial strategy techniques and tactics, the more I realize trying cases is an art and not a science. Because two smart effective trial lawyers can take very different approaches in trying a case. From the time I was sitting in trial advocacy in law school, I have always heard and applied the theory of taking the sting out of your client's cross examination by introducing in direct testimony harmful facts that you knew were going to come up in cross examination...
Tips on Defending Personal Injury Depositions
Posted on June 06, 2007Too many personal injury lawyers view properly preparing their clients for their depositions as an unskilled part of their work. In terms of both future settlement opportunities and likelihood of success at trial, your client’s deposition is the single biggest event...
Contaminated Powder Infant Formula linked to Neonatal Meningitis and Bacteremia in Infants
Posted on May 30, 2007A recent study concluded that powdered infant formula can cause serious illness or death in infants. The infants are typically diagnosed with Meningitis,Salmonella, Sepsis or Bacteraemia. These illnesses can often lead to brain damage or death...
What Should Trial Lawyers Wear for Trial?
Posted on May 18, 2007There is an article today in the “Maryland Daily Record” titled, “Beware of Bow Ties and Diamonds in Court.” I liked the title. But I disagree with the premise. The article by Paul Mark Sandler, a prolific Maryland lawyer and author, is somewhat more nuanced than the title suggests...
A Trial Attorney's Reply to the Crazy Pants Lawsuit in D.C.
Posted on May 10, 2007Thanks to Joe Watkins, the President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, which you can find here - www.gtla.org. It's a common sense reply: Reading and hearing about the D.C. Administrative Law Judge who is suing his dry cleaners over a pair of lost pants is distressing, to say the least...
Why It's So Hard to Move Cases
Posted on March 24, 2007When I sit down and review cases with my staff we have a lot of cases that are right on the edge of being resolved, but have one thing hanging. My friend Todd O’Malley calls that Ligitation Constipation, where the cases come in, but they don’t go out...
Litigating Auto Accident Cases: Slaying the Insurance Beast
Posted on March 21, 2007My partner, Laura G. Zois, fellow Trial Lawyer Resource Center blogger John F. Romano, and other invited faculty, will be speaking in New Orleans on May 3-5, 2007 at the annual AAJ (formerly ALTA) Jazzfest seminar on auto torts.
Listening During Settlement Negotiations
Posted on March 20, 2007Every day, I speak to insurance claims adjusters on the phone attempting to resolve personal injury cases. It is dangerous to try to put people with complex goals and motives into simple boxes. But let's do it anyway...
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