David Ball on Damages: The Essential Update

David Ball

Trial Guides, LLC

Colossus What Every Physician Needs to Know

Aaron C. DeShaw

Richard H. Friedman

We've all seen the name of AIG's CEO, Edward Liddy, far too often in the last few months. He recently attended a hearing before a congressional committee explaining why he thinks $165 million in federal bailout money from American taxpayers needs to go to AIG employees for bonuses. During Liddy's introduction, Chairman Kanjorski raised the issue about Liddy's former role as CEO of Allstate, and that company's denial of insurance contract claims. Later, one of the representatives asked why we as taxpayers are being forced to pay $165 million in bonuses on the basis that these were contracts. Liddy had no problem denying insurance contract claims which the policyholders made against his former company, Allstate. It might be surprising for the public to realize that Liddy made over $350 million in salary and stock options in his position at Allstate, in large part by implementing a plan to deny and otherwise underpay contract claims to Allstate policyholders. He did this with the assistance, of McKinsey &amp; Co., the same consultants who created the Enron business plan. The public might also be interested to know that while running AIG, Liddy continues to be a major Allstate stockholder. Liddy was the President and CEO of Allstate Insurance Corp. from 1995 to 1999, then the Chairman of the Board until 2007. While at Allstate, he orchestrated across-the-board claim denial and underpayment systems created by McKinsey &amp; Co., which led to David J. Berardinelli's investigative book From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves: The Dark Side of Insurance. According to this book, by the time he left, Mr. Liddy had already amassed Allstate stock worth over $250 million, with an additional payment at retirement of $50 million, and a retirement package worth over $70 million. You can also find out how, during his leadership at Allstate, Liddy oversaw that company's rejection of Hurricane Katrina home loss claims, how those costs were passed off on the American taxpayers through the National Flood Insurance Fund, and how Allstate and Liddy profited by passing off the losses to taxpayers. Find out for yourself why insurance claims are being improperly denied, delayed, and defended at trial. Read the story the insurance industry doesn't want you to know.

From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves: The Dark Side of Insurance

Berardinelli, David J.

Business

Recovering for Psychological Injuries is one of the bestselling trial strategy books ever written. While the book was originally known for its use in psychological injury cases, readers soon learned it had a much broader appeal for its wise advice on case preparation, dealing with experts, researching insurance issues, jury selection, and a wide range of other issues. Rules of the Road author Rick Friedman has called the book "a true masterpiece." Recovering for Psychological Injuries, Third Edition, updates and broadens the scope of the book for a new generation of lawyers. Drawing upon his experience in over five hundred jury trials, Barton instructs you on how to handle all the aspects of a case. In addition, Barton has several new sections with detailed advice on litigating cases, illustrated by cases he has handled in the twenty years since the last edition. The new book reflects Barton's wisdom gained from handling difficult factual cases, and broadens its application to a wide variety of litigation. Recovering for Psychological Injuries is full of the strategies and techniques you need in today's legal field to win, even in your most challenging cases.

Recovering for Psychological Injuries

William A. Barton

With Rules of the Road, Rick Friedman revolutionized the way plaintiff lawyers structure their cases; with Polarizing the Case, he gave us the weapons to fight back against the most common and insidious defenses raised by our opponents. Now, in Rick Friedman on Becoming a Trial Lawyer, Friedman turns to the inner obstacles that keep us from reaching our full potential as trial lawyers. Combining nuts-and-bolts practical advice with inspirational insights, he guides us on the journey every trial lawyer must take, from the struggle to gain trial experience to the search for happiness in a career fraught with conflict and frustration. Along the way he addresses topics as diverse as common mistakes made by even the most experienced trial lawyer to the benefits of psychotherapy. The perfect gift for yourself--or for any other trial lawyer in your life.

Rick Friedman on Becoming a Trial Lawyer by Rick Friedman (2008-05-04)

Rick Friedman

Legal Self-Help

Eric Oliver is a noted trial consultant, speaker and educator who has specialized in verbal, nonverbal, and implicit communication skills for over twenty-eight years-twenty-five working with trial lawyers. This book provides the best of his advice over this career as one of the country's leading trial consultants. In the book, Oliver discusses how trial lawyers can prepare and present more receiver-friendly cases for settlement presentation and in trial. The advice helps lawyers build a presentation plan for each case, which they can adapt to any venue. This presentation plan integrates the verbal, visual, and personal parts of the case story, and is based on the decision-makers needs and expectations. Oliver also discusses how to uncover those expectations in focus groups and voir dire.

Persuasive Communication: Twenty-five Years of Teaching Lawyers

Eric Oliver

Rules of the Road is America's best-selling text on proving liability. In the five years since it's original release, it has helped lawyers throughout the country win six, seven, and eight figure verdicts in cases with difficult liability. The authors have now honed this ground-breaking work in this second edition. In addition to revisions throughout the book clarifying concepts in the first edition, Friedman and Malone have added six new chapters and three appendices. They cover the differences between rules and principles, how to troubleshoot your rules, and hot to fit Rules of the Road techniques into your case themes. They discuss how to use Rules earlier in the case, through the motions in limine, and voir dire. They include samples of rules from a variety of cases, including medical malpractice, product liability, insurance claims cases, motor vehicle cases and more. In addition to their own experiences in the last five years of trying cases with the Rules of the Road technique, the authors include contributions from other successful attorneys, and they teach you how to use these tools to win your own trials.

Rules of the Road A Plaintiff Lawyer's Guide to Proving Liability

PATRICK MALONE

If you've tried any cases, you understand that a trial is as much an art form as it is a test of facts. Psychodrama can help you better understand your clients, their backgrounds, and what shaped them before they came to you. It helps you to present the compelling story of your case through a better understanding of the parties', experts', and witnesses' motivations. It will also help you prepare your cases and direct them from intake to trial. This book is a step-by-step manual that will help lawyers who are new to psychodrama learn the basic techniques, and will help more seasoned lawyers perfect their skills. The book begins with the history of psychodrama in law, then moves on to describe the specific tools and techniques that trial lawyers use. Each instructional chapter gives a "how to," followed by an example, and finishes with an exercise you can try at home. Finally, the book gives concrete examples of how you can use your newly found psychodrama tools and skills in all parts of a trial, from voir dire to closing. Psychodrama is not for the faint of heart. It's a method for those lawyers ready to join the ranks of the best lawyers in the world.

Trial in Action: The Persuasive Power of Psychodrama

Joane Garcia-Colson, Fredilyn Sison & Mary Peckham

Defeating the MIST Defense

Michael D. Freeman

Show the Story: The Power of Visual Advocacy

William S. Bailey & Robert W. Bailey

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