I like to have a basic outline of ideas for cross examination that I can review at a glance. In addition, I often create a simple one page list of words, phrases or ideas that I might choose to use in cross. You shouldn’t be reading during your cross examination and you need to move with the flow of what is happening so these help lists have to be simple and brief. Here’s an example of a very simple outline from a case where the issues involved the failure…
Dr. Marcia Angell, MD. Is the first woman to serve as Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. In my view, she is also one of the most courageous editors for pointing out the problem between industry money and medical research. The Journal is one of most prestigious medical journals in the country. In August of this year she wrote and editorial she titled Is Academic Medicine For Sale? The Journal has a strict disclosure policy about conflicts of…
I don’t know if you "blackboard" your damages for argument or not. I do. I like to break them down between past and future as well as by elements and assign a dollar value to each. I’m reproducing an outline from an Idaho case I tried. The case involved birth injuries to a child as well as parental claims. The first outline is that for the child using Idaho elements of damage that were the law when I tried the case. The second…