Watch Trial Technique Spotlight, where Shane Read discusses the verdict-winning techniques of leading trial attorneys.  

Anticipating and undercutting opposing counsel’s arguments is often a key cornerstone to a winning opening statement. And in the recently launched lineup of episodes in our ongoing series, Trial Technique Spotlight, Shane Read, one of the nation’s leading trial consultants, details the approaches top attorneys have used to undercut opposing counsel contentions.

When properly framed, an appeal to jurors’ “common sense” can be one of the most powerful rhetorical points in any attorney’s closing argument. And in closings at trial over a rear-end collision that injured a Florida woman, Keith Mitnik’s convincing appeal to "common sense" helped set up a seven-figure verdict.

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CVN has covered a host of headline-making proceedings across the country over the last few months: from a bellwether baby formula trial to one of the first trials in the nation addressing Amazon's potential liability as an employer for the actions of its service partners' delivery drivers. Watch a few pivotal moments from five of the latest blockbuster proceedings CVN cameras have captured.

Shane Read discusses how Frank Bayuk undercut defense arguments to win a $7 million rollover crash case verdict. You can watch the full trial here.

Because jurors often make decisions about a case’s merits during a trial’s earliest moments, it’s important to discredit opposing counsel’s key arguments during openings in order to bolster your own case. And in the latest episode of Trial Technique Spotlight, Shane Read, one of the nation’s foremost trial consultants, analyzes how Bayuk & Pratt’s Frank Bayuk memorably addressed key defense claims to win a $7 million verdict against Yamaha in a golf car rollover crash case. 

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Salem, MA— Jurors Wednesday cleared Philip Morris and a grocery store chain of responsibility for the esophageal cancer of a Massachusetts man who smoked the tobacco giant’s cigarettes for decades. Bagnell v. Philip Morris, et al., 2177CV00877.