Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

One expert I started to prepare cross examination for in my most recent case was never called. She was to testify that the reported cases to the company about patient airway fires weren’t enough to require the manufacturer to do anything and that the instructions provided with the tube were adequate to advise the doctors (who never bothered to read them). I wanted to show the doctors were also negligent for not reading the instructions. In anticipation of this defense witness  I…

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In my view the collateral cross examination of an expert,  done successfully, is tremendously more important than the subject matter cross examination. Jurors hear well qualified experts for  both sides  give conflicting opinions. Their process of evaluation is not clinically and objectively analyzing the reasoning offered or weighing  the evidence in support of the opinions. Typically they hear one side and it makes sense generally.  Then they hear another side and it too makes sense. They are generally left to…

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