You know how to frame a great closing argument. You know how to deliver it to a jury. But in our experience, the real hurdle arises when you take that great argument and great delivery and try to incorporate technology. Which… Read More
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4 Major Defense Weaknesses in Health & Safety Products Liability – Part 3
No sugar-coating it: the defense weaknesses we discussed in Part 2 are dangerous. If you don’t have solid, convincing responses to them, you’re looking at significant challenges for your case outcome. Finding the best solutions will, as always, depend on the specifics of your case. However, because plaintiffs’ main arguments… Read More
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4 Major Defense Weaknesses in Health & Safety Products Liability – Part 2
Now that we’ve covered how jurors tend to think about health and safety products liability cases (Part 1), let’s examine the 4 common plaintiff themes that can cause major trouble for the defense: 1. You Favored Profits Over People This argument tends to… Read More
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4 Major Defense Weaknesses in Health & Safety Products Liability – Part 1
When it comes to medical and safety products liability, the defense is inherently at risk. While we’ve basically seen it all from plaintiffs, where human safety is concerned, a defendant tends to be vulnerable to a common set of plaintiff arguments. But under the circumstances, in some ways this is actually good news. At… Read More
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LI News: Dr. Jill Leibold and Dr. Christina Marinakis Become Shareholders
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added two shareholders! Dr. Jill Leibold and Dr. Christina Marinakis will join the current shareholders, Dr. Merrie Jo Pitera and Adam Bloomberg, in guiding the company toward continued and expanding success. Dr. Leibold and… Read More
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Why So Many Mediations Fail, and How You Can Up Your Success Rate
Over the last 23 years, I’ve attended plenty of mediations with clients to help them prepare and present their mediation presentation. But from what I’ve seen, there’s not much actual mediation going on. Instead, it usually goes something like this: Mediator: You never know what you’re going to get with… Read More
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Top 10 Travel Tips for Road Warriors
At our recent all-firm meeting, the topic of travel came up; not surprising, given that most of our team covers a lot of ground each year. Soon enough, we all began sharing our favorite travel tips, and were pleased to discover a few that even our hardened LI “road warriors” hadn’t heard of. Given that our average reader is no… Read More
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Giving Thanks to Great Nonprofits (2018)
The amazing work done by great nonprofits can never get too much press. So as another Thanksgiving approaches, we’d like to make special mention of the organizations (and their wonderful staff!) that we’ve had the pleasure of working with in… Read More
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Trial Technology: What Has & Hasn’t Changed in Nearly Two Decades
I recently stumbled across an article I co-authored about 17 years ago for the National Law Journal with fellow journeyman and litigation consultant, Stan Sandstrom. It was entitled, “An Ancient Art Jazzed by High Tech.” It brought me back. I remembered that when we wrote it,… Read More
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My Case Isn’t Going to Trial, So Why Do I Need a Trial Consultant?
We at Litigation Insights sometimes worry that the common monikers for our profession such as “trial consultants” and “jury consultants” create the impression that a case needs to end up in trial for us to be of assistance. Add in… Read More