Shane Read analyzes how the use of a deposition clip in openings led to a $495 million verdict in a bellwether baby formula case.
Sometimes the most compelling testimony at trial can come from a deposition. And turning a spotlight on that testimony during openings helps lay the critical early groundwork for a winning verdict. In the latest episode of Trial Technique Spotlight, Shane Read, one of the nation’s foremost trial and jury consultants, analyzes how Jake Plattenberger's opening in a bellwether baby formula trial masterfully highlighted a researcher’s pushback to deposition questions, setting up a blockbuster verdict.
