Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

One year ago, in January 2016, I wrote about correctly conducting focus groups. https://plaintifftriallawyertips.com/how-to-do-focus-studies-for-your-cases-correctly I recommended an article from Trial Magazine by attorneys Philip H Miller and Paul J sculptor. Over my fifty years as a trial lawyer I have been involved in many dozens  of focus  studies. I also have  observed focus studies done by others and read articles about focus studies. My experience was a feeling they were not qualified and the writing often inaccurate. When I read the  article, however,…

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People and jurors have commonly held beliefs that are in conflict with our issues in our cases. After decades of the national Chamber  of Commerce, big business and insurance industry propaganda against tort litigation and plaintiff trial attorneys, we can assume that all jurors  have been tainted to one extent or another with anti tort bias. Given the political fighting over immigration, we can assume that representing an immigrant, especially an undocumented one, has issues as does representing Muslims. Then…

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Have you ever taken the  time to mentally step into the shoes of your jurors and look at the trial as if you were a juror rather than a lawyer representing a client? We know that  most jurors are asking themselves: “what does the person suing want and what does the other side claim?”  But subconsciously the most basic question they all have is: “what is in this case for me? How does this case affect me, my family and…

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