If you are contacted about cases that you either can’t or don’t want to accept you should consider a standard office policy on referral of cases. Here is an example of a policy: A GENERAL POLICY 1. There are four types of cases we refer out to other attorneys: (1) Cases involving legal work outside of our area which have sufficient merit to justify a referral to a specific attorney (2) Cases with we don’t feel are substantial enough but…
In connection withprepration for a trialmy partner and I had a discussion about trial themes and how many items should be listed or relied upon for best communication.Here’s some informationI generated in connection with the discussion. TRIAL THEMES There are respected jury consultants who do not believe themes in a trial are necessary or helpful. However, others feel strongly that themes are important. In discussing the issue, we need to make sure we have the same understanding of what is…
This month I traveled to Minneapolis to take the deposition of the CEO of Metronc Corporation, one of the largest medical device companies in the world with offices in one and twenty countries. The case involves a lawsuit against the company for the failure of an insulin pump after the user exposed it to an MRI device. The company lawyers fought this deposition. He had only been deposed once before. They moved to quash with the discovery master and from…