Recently one of the nation’s finest plaintiff’s lawyers lost a lengthy malpractice case and wrote about his experience as well has his reaction. I found his viewpoint interesting and courageous to talk about. He expressed thethought that he was glad he had gone through the experience of losing as a learning experience and my reaction was, I’d rather pass on that. Here, is my response which expresses my view of losing: Thank you for sharing. It was painful to report,…
A great trial lawyer in California has a case he is trying involving a death action. His deceased was a very wealthy man with a classic car collection and many other expensive things. He had earned his money t he old fashioned way, by hard work. While riding his bike, a 87 year old driver hit him and killed him. The issue was whether the plaintiff’s lawyer should attempt to exclude the evidence of wealth or not. Several of his…
You will recall my post about a trial in which the lawyers were at each other’s throats. I made the point jurors don’t like it and discussed some ideas for handling the obnoxious lawyer. I’m told the defense continued to obstruct the plaintiff’s case with continuous objections as well as various attacks coupled with a take no prisoners approach to the defense of the case. In addition, it was a fireman who was injured and under WA law all of…