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Trial Guides™ is a publishing company featuring educational books, video, audio, and live seminars from the nation's leading trial lawyers, jury consultants and legal experts.

01/17/2025

The tip of the day for January 17th, 2025, comes from Michael Cowen's book “Big Rig Justice: A Comprehensive Guide to Maximizing Value in Truck Accident Cases”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/2rpr2nj2

“(Corporate defendants) pretend to care about safety. They tell the jury all the great things they do. But the reality is that they just want to escape the consequences of their unsafe decisions so they can go on making money and doing business as usual. When you expose the defendant's deception, you show that the defendant is a villain, and the jury will want to protect themselves from the defendant-villain through their verdict.”

01/16/2025

The tip of the day for January 16th, 2025, comes from Jim M. Perdue's book “Courtroom Storytelling”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/2byefbmn

“What we are asking the jury to do is build a wall against a continuation of unsafe and dangerous driving, medical, or business practices. We do that by condemning the practice with liability findings and awarding full damages. To do that, we have to frame our case and tell our story, casting the jury, not the plaintiff, as the protagonist.”

01/15/2025

The tip of the day for January 15th, 2025, comes from Nicholas Rowley & Courtney Rowley's book “Running with the Bulls: How to Win Top Dollar Settlements”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/ymk5u3fe

“Cheap settlements set the system up for abuse, failure, and undeserved criticism.”

01/14/2025

The tip of the day for January 14th, 2025, comes from Rick Friedman's book “The Way of the Trial Lawyer: Beyond Technique”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/mr3xh88k

“There is no formula for when and how to express your own emotional truth in the courtroom. But the more connected you can be to your own emotional truth, the more powerful an advocate you can be.”

01/13/2025

The tip of the day for January 13th, 2025, comes from David R. Bossart, Gregory Cusimano, Edward H. Lazarus & David A. Wenner's book “Winning Case Preparation: Understanding Jury Bias”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/3jtfdk9r

“The more alternatives the defendant had to avoid the injury, the more likely the jury will find the defendant liable.”

01/10/2025

The tip of the day for January 10th, 2025, comes from Patrick Malone with Rick Friedman's book “Winning Medical Malpractice Cases: With the Rules of the Road™ Technique”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/yt8fexey

“The right approach to winning cases involves showing the jury how values important to them line up with a plaintiff's verdict. Values matter, because the way we want others to be treated powerfully influences how we make decisions.”

01/09/2025

The tip of the day for January 9th, 2025, comes from Phillip H. Miller & Paul J. Scoptur's book “Advanced Depositions Strategy and Practice”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/mu5yya7d

“You should run focus groups so that you know the best way to present your case to the people who really matter the most—the jury. Run focus groups before discovery is started and before structuring your trial presentation. That way you will know who they want to hear from, what they want to see, and what the juror proof is. Only then are you ready to win in today's climate.”

01/08/2025

The tip of the day for January 8th, 2025, comes from Nicholas Rowley, Courtney Rowley, and Wendy Saxon's book “Voir Dire and Opening Statement”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/y8xcx7n6

“Making challenges that ensure our opponents get a fair trial builds our credibility with the court and with the jurors. When we are credible, it's easier to establish the connections that we need in order to win our case.”

01/07/2025

The tip of the day for January 7th, 2025, comes from Keith Mitnik's book “Don't Eat the Bruises: How to Foil Their Plans to Spoil Your Case”, get your print, eBook, or audiobook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/6m9xey28

“A story without facts is fiction and worthless in a courtroom. Facts may be biographically accurate, but without a heartfelt and sincere story that motivates the listener they lack the essential ingredients to convince jurors to pick your side.”

01/06/2025

The tip of the day for January 6th, 2025, comes from Patrick Malone's book “The Fearless Cross-Examiner: Win the Witness, Win the Case”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/4p2v5vpk

“What is the jury supposed to conclude when you waste time bringing out an inconsistency, when neither version matters to the case outcome? That you like to waste time? That you have no sense for the relevant? That you vindictively punish opposing witnesses for no clear aim?”

01/03/2025

The tip of the day for January 3rd, 2025, comes from Paul Luvera & Lita Barnett Luvera’s book “Luvera on Advocacy”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/394fpd6e

“All people are equipped with internal lie detectors. When you put a group of jurors together, their collective ability to detect honesty, credibility, and trustworthiness is even more acute.”

New Live Webinar! Defeating the Expert's DME in a TBI Case with Maxey Marie Scherr. February 11th, 2025 @ 3:30 PM ET.Sig...
01/02/2025

New Live Webinar! Defeating the Expert's DME in a TBI Case with Maxey Marie Scherr. February 11th, 2025 @ 3:30 PM ET.
Sign up today: https://tinyurl.com/55a2d4f5

While some may refer to them as “independent” medical exams (IMEs), plaintiffs’ attorneys know them for what they are: “defense” medical exams (DMEs). Opposing counsel will allege that a DME is necessary to level the playing field or even give “limited” access for their own experts to survey your client. In reality, defense counsel selects and pays the retained expert, who (subject to Rule 26) can confer with defense counsel confidentially and is not responsible for your client’s well-being. This leaves the potential for damage and should be challenged to protect your TBI client’s physical, mental, and emotional health.

Join trial attorney Maxey Scherr in this brain injury CLE to learn:

– Methods for researching the DME testing and examiner
– Ways to challenge possible bias
– Strategies for using Rule 35 of the FRCP to create safeguards necessary for brain-injured clients, including limiting the scope, length of the exam, and methods used
– The literature behind the exams that highlights the outdated, biased, or unscientific methods typically used in DMEs
– The relevant case law and medical authority

Every effort must be made to protect TBI victims from unjust DMEs. These DMEs can have severe implications that may unfairly prejudice plaintiffs. Learn how you can better protect your clients and help make this discriminatory practice obsolete.

01/02/2025

The tip of the day for January 1st, 2025, comes from Bill Barton's book “Integrated Advocacy: Getting Better, Faster, while Building a Satisfying and Sustainable Law Practice”, get your print or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/2u646xaw

“Ask yourself: If I'm going to win, what are the key questions the jury will have to answer in my favor? Alternatively, if I'm going to lose—why, and what are my best responses?”

12/31/2024

The tip of the day for December 31st, 2024, comes from Sari de la Motte & Rick Friedman's video “The Power of Presence”, start watching today: https://tinyurl.com/2562bmf6

“Presence is what you put out, Charisma is how you draw in.”

12/30/2024

The tip of the day for December 30th, 2024, comes from James H. McComas’s book “Dynamic Cross-Examination: A Whole New Way to Create Opportunities to Win”, get your copy today: https://tinyurl.com/3x7hktub

“It pays to repeat the witness's key statements right after he makes them, to emphasize the points to the jury, and then move on to the next question. If the witness gives an exceptionally good response, we may just let it sit in the courtroom in silence, then slowly repeat it, while we look at each member of the jury.”

12/27/2024

The tip of the day for December 27th, 2024, comes from “Anatomy of a Personal Injury Lawsuit, 4th Ed.” edited by John F. Romano, get your copy today: https://tinyurl.com/4cwacwwt

“You must introduce the elements of your case: the villain, hero, theory, and theme(s). You need to tell the jurors why they should care about what happened, and how to fix the injustice that has occurred in a way that protects their community.”

12/26/2024

The tip of the day for December 26th, 2024, comes from Courtney Rowley & Theresa Bowen Hatch's book “Trial by Woman", get your paperback or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/8kxypkr5

“The most successful female trial lawyers have figured out that their health, wellness, mindfulness, and presence outside the courtroom directly correlate with their success inside the courtroom.”

12/24/2024

The tip of the day for December 24th, 2024, comes from Jim Perdue's book “Courtroom Storytelling", get your paperback or eBook copy today: https://tinyurl.com/8kxypkr5

“No matter the stakes, we never miss a chance to go to trial. Our goal as well as those opposed to us is to assist the jury in arriving at a just result.”

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