Dr. Burton Bentley highlights a powerful example of building credibility while testifying, in this clip from Medical Testimony Master Class. You can watch the full episode here.

In a medical malpractice case, a defendant medical provider’s credibility is crucial to securing a defense verdict. And in the latest episode of Medical Testimony Master Class with Burton Bentley, II, M.D., Dr. Bentley highlights a powerful technique that Huff Powell & Bailey’s Scott Bailey used to bolster his physician-client’s credibility during direct exam, leading to a defense win in a major med-mal trial. 

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When questioning a witness, it’s crucial to highlight the key information you want a jury to take away from that testimony. Otherwise, you risk jurors becoming overwhelmed with information and missing the most important points that witness made. This is particularly true during questioning of expert witnesses, where testimony can run hours long and confuse the average juror. In a multi-plaintiff talc trial against Johnson & Johnson, the demonstrative “notes” Mark Lanier wrote to support his questioning powerfully distilled key pieces of testimony and helped win a blockbuster verdict.

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West Palm Beach, FL— Jurors previewed evidence concerning the elevator ceiling panel collapse at a mall parking garage that a Florida man says left him with a traumatic brain injury, as trial opened Tuesday morning against the mall’s owner.  Rayment v. Mizner Park Venture, LLC, 2017-CA-007543.

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Santa Fe, NM— Attorneys Monday debated what responsibility, if any, R.J. Reynolds bears for the deadly throat cancer a New Mexico man developed after decades of smoking, as trial opened against the tobacco giant. Perez v. R.J. Reynolds, D-101-CV-201902017.