You can tell a lot about a person from what they watch on TV. We traveled outside of Philadelphia into Bucks County for a case. Despite proximity, Philly and Bucks County can be two different worlds. During jury selection, one of the questions on the standard court...
Juries don’t always need a fancy, high-tech argument. During a medical malpractice case, we faced a very skilled defense lawyer. We had fought a good fight, and during the trial, we had settled with the most culpable defendants. Those defendants were released from...
We recently had a medical malpractice case where our client was diagnosed with cancer. They stated that their daughter, who had significant emotional and psychological issues, would be a “disaster” at deposition. After several meetings with the client and her...
Jury selection is more of an art than a science. In most counties, we get a pool of jurors, each side strikes jurors from the Panel, and the jury is selected from the remaining pool. So, in reality, instead of “picking” the jury, we are removing jurors until we are...
Even lawyers have parent-mode. We were trying a construction case in the counties where the Defendant was represented by a very capable young lawyer. Despite this, the law firm’s managing partner appeared at the trial every other day. It wasn’t because the lawyer...
