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Month: January 2016

DEVELOP THE RIGHT ATTITUDE FOR A PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY

DEVELOP THE RIGHT ATTITUDE FOR A PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY

Working with other lawyers and teaching them often shows they have the wrong attitude to be a great plaintiff lawyer. What attitude should they have? I think the most basic attitudes involve these concepts to start with. The first rule of a plaintiff’s practice is to screen the case initially to make certain you are willing to try the case without assuming it will somehow settle without trial so you can earn a fee. The second rule is to prepare every case from…

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DAMAGES FOR NEGLIGENTLY CAUSED DEATH

DAMAGES FOR NEGLIGENTLY CAUSED DEATH

This past week my partners and another friend have been preparing for wrongful death trials. I was asked to contribute some thoughts. Since I’ve collected a few ideas I thought I would share them even though they are not in any particular organized sequence. Some years back I copied  an article entitled “A Portrait of a Mother” and what follows are some excerpts from that article. I regret that I didn’t keep the source or the author or I would…

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HOW TO DO FOCUS STUDIES FOR YOUR CASES CORRECTLY

HOW TO DO FOCUS STUDIES FOR YOUR CASES CORRECTLY

Over many years of my law practice one of the most valuable things I regularly used was focus studies for my cases. I made a study about conducting them, hired difference jury consultants, with often differing ways of conducting them, and generally spent time learning all I could about the correct way to conduct them for the most valid results. I also learned how too often “vanity” studies  were done by lawyers who thought they knew how to run them and ended up with “false…

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