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Steps in preparing for cross examination

Steps in preparing for cross examination

Someone commented that for the inexperienced cross examination is a real challenge. Let me suggest one way to prepare for cross examination. This is not a description of how to organize the material you create because I’ve written about that previously. /bcCreatePost.aspx?id=2101419 This is a simple way to think about getting ready for cross examination. These concepts apply generally to any cross examination but to keep it simple, let’s take the example of a doctor hired by the insurance company…

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Deciding the claims of negligence and safety rules to be used in trial

Deciding the claims of negligence and safety rules to be used in trial

I was working on this posting when we settled the birth injury malpratice case I was going to try a week for a cash settlement of $20 million. But, this is what I was doing about developing rules to be used in the trial. See what you think As I prepare for trial I am focusing on what safety rules we should use and what claims of negligence we should use at trial.   As to safety rules or rules governing conduct, I…

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The role of emotion in decision making

The role of emotion in decision making

Most of us were taught in law school the legal system is a rational, logical system. Our trial system was created with the belief that people are intelligent and rational beings who think and decide as such. The whole system was designed to eliminate emotion in dispensing justice and rely solely upon rational, logical and intellectual processing. Over the many years our trial and justice system has functioned judges and appellate courts have clung to that belief. For example, the…

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