A friend of mine, who is a great trial lawyer, has a trial where the issue is the hospital’s negligence for allowing an unqualified doctor privileges resulting in injury to the patient. He wanted some suggestions on concepts that might be used. I told him that I didn’t have anything original, but shared some general ideas. While we all aren’t going to have a case like that, the odds are we will have a case where the issue is negligent…
I’ve often used the old school grading system in my trials in several ways. When I went to school the grades were A, B, C, D & F. Of course, there were grade variations such as B+ or B- as well, but those were the basic grades. I’ve used this as an analogy to the conduct of the defendant. "Should the defendant get a passing grade for their conduct? What grade does this defendant deserve for the effort made to…
I am at Princeville on Kauai attending the annual Inner Circle of Advocates. I’ll try to post something this week, but if you don’t hear from me you;ll know why