My good friend Don Keenan is not only a great trial lawyer but a generous one. He freely shares his ideas about trial practice. His blog is a source of helpful ideas which I look forward to. See: http://www.keenantrialblog.com/ At the risk of Don accusing me of plagiarism I would like to call your attention to his last posting “The 7 Rules of Safety Rules. He captures the concept so well it ought to be required reading for all plaintiff…
I jut finished a book, The Forty Eight Laws of Power by Robert Greene. It was a somewhat strange discussion directed at overcoming others to your own advantage, but aside from that premise it had ideas of interest. Here are a few of them you might find interesting. I looked at them as if they were applicable to trial when I made this outline. For example, the first rule below, I applied to my relationship with the judge and so on….
In a case we recently settled the plaintiff was working in an overhead bucket when he contacted a power line and was seriously injured. Here is the outline I was working on for jury selection. It will give you an idea of the general subjects I like to cover. In this case I intended to concede our client had been distracted and had some responsibility, but under Washington’s pure comparative negligence law the jury must compare that to the knowledge,…