West Palm Beach, FL— R.J. Reynolds Monday prevailed at trial seeking punitive damages for the respiratory disease a Florida man developed after decades of smoking. Spurlock v. R.J. Reynolds, 2007-CA-023631.

Marietta, GA— Jurors Wednesday cleared a Georgia emergency room physician of responsibility for the catastrophic fallout from a brain-stem stroke that one of her patients suffered. Barnett v. Johnson, M.D., et al., 23-A-526. 

Marietta, GA— Attorneys Tuesday debated what led to the catastrophic fallout from a stroke a Georgia woman suffered, as trial opened against an emergency room physician who treated her. Barnett v. Johnson, M.D., et al., 23-A-526. 

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.