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DOES THE AMOUNT YOU ASK FOR AS A VERDICT EFFECT THE RESULT?

DOES THE AMOUNT YOU ASK FOR AS A VERDICT EFFECT THE RESULT?

Nationallly known plaintiff’s trial lawyer Rick Friedman recently called attention to the article from the University of Denver Sturm College law by John Campbell and others entitled: “Countering the plaintiffs anchor: Jury simulations to evaluate damages arguments.” The article deals with an important research project about  the principle of anchoring which has direct application to the plaintiff’s damage arguments. I think plaintiff lawyers should read this article. Neuro linguistic programming deals extensively with the concept of anchoring and is a good…

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RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT REPRESENTING PLAINTIFFS

RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT REPRESENTING PLAINTIFFS

This is a mixing bowl of unconnected ideas about our work. It’s a summary of some recent E-mail exchanges I’ve had with  other plaintiff’s lawyers about different subjects  under discussion and my general reading. How do We  Make  Decisions? I’ve written a lot about this subject but in Tuesday’s edition of the this  week’s New York Times there was an article about how people  make medical decisions regarding their health care. It was based, in part on medical journal articles…

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TRIAL ASSISTANT INSTRUCTIONS

TRIAL ASSISTANT INSTRUCTIONS

When I was a young lawyer in the small town of Mount Vernon, Washington I would sometimes fly to places for legal work as the quickest way to get there. Just outside town there was a narrow dirt air strip right along a standing field of corn on one side and a drainage canal on the other. The local pilot who flew the farms for spraying the fields had his planes there and one was a small two seater he…

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