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WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE WHEELS BEGIN TO FALL OFF YOUR CASE?

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE WHEELS BEGIN TO FALL OFF YOUR CASE?

  A friend of mine who is an outstanding plaintiff’s lawyer was giving a talk on the subject of the experience of having your case began to deteriorate. He asked me for some thoughts and what follows are suggestions. When this subject comes up, I always think of the great New York plaintiff’s lawyer Moe Levine. He has written that he was once trying a case before an abusive judge who did everything he could to undermine his case. Several days into the…

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HOW DO YOU EVALUATE DAMAGES FOR A CHILD SHOULDER DYSTOCIA CASE?

HOW DO YOU EVALUATE DAMAGES FOR A CHILD SHOULDER DYSTOCIA CASE?

I was asked to explain how I would go about deciding the right way to approach damages in a case involving a child who suffered shoulder dystocia at birth. Here is a rough summary of my process. Here is what  I told the lawyer. While this is my viewpoint, Perhaps it may stimulate some  ideas for you Rid your mind and your thinking right now about other verdicts in cases like this. Your case is not controlled by the results of some other…

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WORKING WITH EXPERT WITNESSES

WORKING WITH EXPERT WITNESSES

Last week I spoke at the Washington State Association for Justice seminar. When I retired I had decided not to give talks in the future since I wasn’t practicing law. The exception I made was for the Inner Circle of Advocates convention because of my long association and past presidency of that organization. When my longtime friend William Bailey asked me to please speak at last week’s convention that he was conducting with Seattle lawyer Rebecca Rowe I agreed because…

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