Litigation

Courtroom of the 21st Century

By Bruce Nye

    Like many blawgers, I subscribe to feeds from lots of other blawgers, and I make a particular effort to follow posts from lawyers on the plaintiff side of the kinds of kinds of cases I defend.  Among those, one of my favorites is Scott Leviant's Complex Litigator. 

    Today, I'm particularly appreciative of Scott's catch of the live excerpt on Courtroom View Network of a portion of the plaintiff's opening statement in the Fen-Phen case being tried earlier this month in Judge Mohr's courtroom in Los Angeles' Civil Courts West.  The excerpt is noteworthy for at least three reasons:  it shows the kind of well-developed opening statement you are apt to see in a well-tried modern product liability case;  it shows a very skillful use of Power Point in the courtroom;  and it's a preview of the kind of resources I suspect will become commonplace on the web in the very near future.

Full post as published by CalBizLit on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).