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Ideas from the wyoming trial lawyers convention

Ideas from the wyoming trial lawyers convention

The Wyoming Trial Lawyers’ Association held their annual meeting in Jackson in June of this year. I was privileged to be invited to speak. The convention materials were very informative. Here are a couple of excerpts from two of the convention papers. David Bossart Fargo, North Dakota provided a paper entitled Law, Lawyers & Listening, What do they have in Common. He quotes from the book Listen Up by Larry Barker, Ph.D. and Kittie Watson, Ph.D., St. Martin’s Press, New…

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Putting real world values on human beings

Putting real world values on human beings

Mark Rothko was a famous American painter. In 2007, one of his paintings, painted by him in 1950, was sold at Sotheby’s auction house for a record $73 million dollars. Previous sales of his paintings were in the millions as well. His paintings hang in museums all over the world. People placed a value in the millions on some canvas and paint in a frame. The total value of the materials was very likely a small sum, so why would…

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More safety points&statistical cross examination

More safety points&statistical cross examination

Here a few more points to add to my last post on the general subject of safety. These came from a case where the surgeon encountered a problem using a product during surgery. The manufacturer had specific safety instructions about this problem. The surgeon decided not to follow the manufacturer’s safety instructions and decided to go ahead with the surgery anyway resulting in serious harm to the patient: So these are a few of the safety points I had in my cross…

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