We returned from our family cruise and and I am working to prepare for a trial starting Monday in Seattle involving a Florida corporation’s operation of delivery trucks transporting goods purchased from Sears and Best Buy on our public roads. Their breach of trust to the traveling public for providing safe drivers resulted in a rear end collision with our client’s pick up truck. The resulting fire burned him to death leaving a young pregnant wife. Due to the trial…
Here is a rough “flow of consciousness” outline of thoughts about a drug device product case. I find it helpful to outline ideas picked up from focus studies, reading and just thinking about the case which I then narrow down and refine to useable themes, cross examination ideas and trial approaches to trial. Maybe something here will trigger ideas in your case. CONCEPTS Any risk of serious injury or death is unacceptable if reasonable prevention methods would eliminate or minimize the…
The Sunday New York Times published an interview with David Rock by reporter Adam Bryant. Rock is the director of the Neuroleadership Institute. http://www.neuroleadership.org/index.shtml Rock has developed an acronym SCARF to better explain people’s behavior. It stands for: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness and fairness. Rock says that it is a summary of what motivates us, the things we feel passionately about and that are driving behavior. He says that the brain divides everything into one of two categories: threat or…