Some clients come to us with outside voices in their ears. We recently had a case with a client who would not heed some of our legal advice. Unfortunately, he was friends with a lawyer who was funneling him information regarding the value of the case. When I asked...
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...
