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The most successful defenses often go beyond simply arguing broken links in a plaintiff’s case. Typically, they also persuasively raise an alternate causation theory in which the defendant is not liable. At trial over a long-time smoker’s death, Kathryn Lehman’s closing argument masterfully employs that strategy to help clear one of the nation’s largest tobacco companies of liability. 

Here at Courtroom View Network we spend all day watching real-world courtroom video featuring some of the best civil trial attorneys in the country. For a lighthearted, late summer change of pace, we decided to take a break from that and rank our all time favorite fictional courtroom scenes from the silver screen. 

August’s Feature Trial on CVN — available gavel-to-gavel and on demand to all of our FREE CVN account members — wrapped with a major verdict for injuries a California woman suffered on a city bus.