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New Jersey Law Journal

Liability Forecasting and Why It's Vital for Mass Tort Settlements

Liability forecasting is a practice best understood through the three areas it analyzes: (i) the risks and injuries created by a product and its use, (ii) claims filed and approved, and (iii) finances.
8 minute read

Law.com

Judge Revokes Out-of-State Attorney's Privileges, Declares Mistrial in Outback Steakhouse Slip-and-Fall Suit

"In short, the court is of the belief that this case has become completely infected by the cumulation of misrepresentation, rules violations, 'red herrings,' and other misconduct by Plaintiff's counsel, and, the prejudice that presently exists cannot be cured by a cautionary instruction," Smith wrote.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

Strategy #2 for Dealing With 'Outsized' Damages Awards: Rethink Jury Selection

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.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Strategy #1 for Dealing With 'Outsized' Damages Awards: Focus Courts on the Experts

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.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Chubb's Federal Insurance Co. Seeks $170K Over Alleged Timecard Embezzlement Scheme During COVID-19

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Anchoring Abuse: Evolution and Eradication

In this article, Tim Capowski and Chris Theobalt discuss how the tactic of improper anchoring has evolved, as well as how the opposition and defense to it must also evolve alongside it.
17 minute read

Litigation Daily

The Post-Pandemic Uptick in BIG Damages Awards (and What to Do About it)

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.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Defendants in Contested $11M Default Judgment Appeal Case to Ga. Supreme Court

"We don't think it's going to go anywhere, because the trial judge already rejected their other arguments," plaintiff-appellee counsel said. "Obviously, the defense doesn't either, or they wouldn't be trying to take it to the Supreme Court.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyerless Defendant Scores $1.3M Reduction of $1.4M Defamation Verdict—Now Both Sides Want a Do-Over

"This reduction eviscerates the jury's careful deliberation over a week," plaintiffs lawyer Timothy Kolman said.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Kohl's Summary Judgment Motion in Slip-and-Fall Case Denied by Judge, Settlement Talks or Potential Trial to Be Decided

Taylor's attorney, Edwin Camacho of Ventura Law in Norwalk, said he believes the judge's decision was correct, as there's sufficient facts to merit presenting the case to a jury, rendering a motion for summary judgment inappropriate.
5 minute read

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