Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | October 16, 2023
Research has shown that people spend nearly 50% of their waking time thinking about something other than what they're doing at the moment. Seattle prosecutor Raam Wong has some tips for dealing with that phenomenon in the jury box.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | September 28, 2023
Shook, Hardy & Bacon partners Charlie Eblen and Eric Hobbs had associate Caroline Gieser sitting third chair when they brought home a $189 million jury verdict for home security client CPI Security Systems in a trial showdown with rival Vivint Smart Home earlier this year.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | September 20, 2023
During a presentation on cross-examination sponsored by the ABOTA Foundation, Juan Delgado of Ford, Walker, Haggerty & Behar and Doris Cheng of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger discussed the advantages of letting some witnesses leave the stand without questioning them.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | September 14, 2023
Certified Swifties Ashley Fetyko and Cayce Lynch of Tyson & Mendes say defense lawyers can learn from Swift's embrace of nostalgia, storytelling and vulnerability.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | September 12, 2023
Christa Cottrell of Kirkland & Ellis shared some insightful observations with me a few months ago about how she thinks the pandemic has affected potential jurors. She said "accountability" is key to reaching them now.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | September 5, 2023
Wilmer's Bill Lee and trial consultant Jamie Laird say lawyers should not only strive to make their damages case "simple, clear and brief," but they need to link it to the overall trial story.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | August 31, 2023
Jamie Laird, the president of Laird Trial Consulting LLC, says trial teams need to account for the damages tendencies of jurors early in the process.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | August 30, 2023
With the uptick in $10 million-plus verdicts, Wilmer's Bill Lee thinks lawyers should be focusing courts on consistently applying Daubert to challenges to expert damages testimony.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | August 29, 2023
Bill Lee of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and Jamie Laird, the trial consultant he estimates he's taken to trial with him 50 times over the past decade-and-a-half, see a current rise in jury damages awards that mirrors what occurred after the 2007/08 financial crisis—and they have some ideas about what to do about it.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | August 22, 2023
Building a rapport with a witness, especially a fact witness testifying for the first time, can pay dividends—as can a pre-deposition sweep of the target's social media presence.
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