As a presentation technology consultant, I have been sitting in the hot seat for almost 25 years. I average one trial a month with about 75% being medical malpractice (med mal) cases. I work with both plaintiff and defense…
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/ Electronic Discovery, Health, Law Practice Products & Services, Personal Injury, Professional Malpractice
Digital technology is an integral part of today’s legal industry. The last 10 years have been transformative for the practice of law with strides forward in everything from legal research to practice management to trial…
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/ Civil Procedure, Electronic Discovery, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
In a commercial dispute involving allegations against a manufacturing plant, plaintiff’s counsel was cross-examining a plant manager…
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/ Civil Procedure, Law Practice Products & Services
Trial graphics are instrumental in conveying your story to today’s jurors. Presenting an understandable argument to a jury usually involves technology-driven visual communication in the form of demonstrative exhibits and…
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/ Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
Gen Z attorneys are often extremely valuable, hard-working additions to your trial team. We are sure many of our clients would agree, as we worked alongside quite a few truly impressive young trial attorneys…
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/ Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
Various “up in the air” factors can potentially boost costs during trial, but most clients will still ask counsel to forecast their budgets. While this request is reasonable, it is not always easy to fulfill…
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/ Civil Procedure, Law Practice Products & Services
In a perfect world, counsel can accomplish many goals during voir dire—but when a judge puts a strict clock on the process, those goals quickly narrow. Whether you have 15 or 45 minutes, or some amount to be determined, only…
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/ Civil Procedure
Jury selection in the Trump hush-money trial briefly put jury consultants back in the spotlight as media pundits and their contributors discussed the Trump team’s efforts to search prospective jurors’ social media accounts for…
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/ Civil Procedure
The February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, captured the attention of the nation. The public beheld evacuation orders, reports of air, water, and soil contamination, and a billowing black cloud of burning toxic…
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/ Environmental Law, Toxic Torts
Nuclear verdicts are an ever-present peril looming over today’s medical malpractice trials. In 2022’s Thapa v. St. Cloud Orthopedic Associates, jurors handed down one of the most shocking med-mal verdicts to that point: $111…
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/ Health, Professional Malpractice
In the last 30 years, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed from software that could almost beat a chess world champion to today’s systems that use “language and image recognition capabilities … comparable to humans,”…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Science, Computers, & Technology
In this episode, expert guests Dr. Charles Cowan and Dr. Gabriela Orsak explain how consumer and business surveys can inform legal strategies, specifically in intellectual property, deceptive sales, and class action disputes…
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/ Law Practice Products & Services
The recent flurry of high-profile cases—including the convictions of Sam Bankman-Fried and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, as well as the hush-money trial of Donald Trump—has brought widespread attention to the power of the…
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/ Civil Procedure
With global concern over climate change, it is not surprising that law firms are becoming more focused on reducing their carbon footprint and embracing sustainable practices. They recognize that even though they do not produce…
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/ Environmental Law
After more than four years, evidence continues to trickle in(Opens an external site in a new window) supporting long-theorized concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on students’ learning progress. The battle to claw back…
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/ Civil Procedure
