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Month: January 2016

DEVELOP THE RIGHT ATTITUDE FOR A PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY

DEVELOP THE RIGHT ATTITUDE FOR A PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY

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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

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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

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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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