Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

ADMITTED LIABILITY REAR END COLLISION CASES WITH PRE-EXISTING MEDICAL PROBLEMS

February 16, 2014 Paul Luvera Comments 0 Comment

One of the firm’s associate lawyers worked extremely hard in preparing for the trial of an admitted liability rear end collision case. There was only a $25,000 policy and a settlement of $250,000 under plaintiff’s policy had been made by one of the partners. The associate was then asked to try the case as a potential bad faith case given the defense offer. This was her first trial on her own The damage part of the case presented a lot…

CROSS EXAMINATION OF A DEFENSE MEDICAL EXPERT

February 3, 2014 Paul Luvera Comments 0 Comment

Today I’m sharing an excerpt of my cross examination of one of the medical experts the defense called in my last trial. I am sorry the format is not perfect, but transferring it from the transcript to here was a problem. The reason I am showing you this is because it is an example of what I would call a “soft cross examination” of a defense expert on a collateral attack. The point is to demonstrate his bias and lack…

USE LOGOS, PATHOS & ETHOS TO BE A GREAT ADVOCATE

January 25, 2014 Paul Luvera Comments 1 comment

The American Journal of Trial Advocacy is published by the Cumberland school of law, Samford University. I highly recommend the publication for plaintiff trial lawyers. The subscription is a modest $24 per year: Contact them at jtrialad@samford.edu. The summer 2013 issue has an article by Edward D. Ohlaum “Authentic Advocacy: Lawyering with Character.” Some of his observations I thought repeating were these. Aristotle taught that there were three means of effecting persuasion. “The man who is to be in command…