The right deposition questions during discovery can serve as powerful tools to ultimately impeach a witness once a case gets to trial. But in a recent discussion among veteran attorneys on pre-trial best practices, Butler | Kahn’s Jeb Butler said lawyers should pay just as much attention to how a depo question's response will work in a courtroom as they pay to the substance of the response itself.

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Decatur, GA — Trial is opening Monday morning over a fatal, multi-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer, with Courtroom View Network streaming proceedings gavel-to-gavel. Freeman, et al. v. Ace American Insurance Co., et al., 17A62825. 

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Los Lunas, NM — A New Mexico state court jury last week cleared Philip Morris and a regional grocery chain of responsibility for the cancer death of a 59-year-old woman who had smoked the tobacco giant’s cigarettes for much of her life. Johnson v. Philip Morris and Allsup’s Convenience Stores, Inc., D-1314-CV-2019-00897. 

Powerfully framing the value of life is crucial when plaintiff’s attorneys tell the damages story of a wrongful death case. And in the latest episode of Trial Technique Spotlight, renowned trial consultant Shane Read details how Jeb Butler vividly explained the value of life in a closing that helped win a $150 million verdict at trial over the death of a Georgia toddler. 

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CVN has covered a wide range of big-ticket proceedings across the country over the last several weeks, including a blockbuster case against Monsanto, a Massachusetts trial win for R.J. Reynolds, and more. As we close out 2023, take a look back at highlights of some of our recent trial coverage.