Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

I’ve talked about one page notes during trial in several different context’s. The idea of a one page reminder is tokeep one focused on thekey issues, to force simplification and to provide notes for reference that are easily used. This is a one page outline of an opening statement in ajury trial involving a badly injured man. This portion is the damage portion only. The case involved a manelectrocuted while working resulting in severe burns and multiple traumatic amputations. I…

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Here are some unorganized, rambling thoughts about issues that involve our trial work. Let’s startwith Dr. G. Clotaire Rapaille, an internationally known expert in marketingand his findings aboutattitudes of people regarding hospitals. These findings are important for damage cases and for malpractice cases involving hospital care: First visit the most terrifying experience of their lives Just like hell: confusing place Hospitals have instruments of torture like hell – needles, tubes, clamps, chemicals, beds that roll, red letters on instruments Hell:…

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I’ve published about losing cases before, but I’d like to repeat this because of reports from friends who have given it their best effort but still lost the case. Here’s my contibution about losing. When trial lawyers who are passionate about their client’s cause lose the case, their pain for the loss of their client is palpable. Dealing with losing is always agony and something we never get used to if we are competitive trial lawyers striving for our client’s…

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