Answer Bar: Taking Your Car Crash Case to Trial

Session 1: Trial Preparation 101 - Stressed in trial prep and at trial? Inevitable? Yes. Manageable? Absolutely. Learn tips and strategies from an experienced plaintiff and defense attorney for developing a case and preparing for trial.

Session 2: View from the Bench: Trial Basics - Hear observations and guidance from a trial judge.

Session 3: Accident Reconstruction Deconstructed - Technology and resources available today can allow post-accident physical evidence to resolve many fact disputes about how an incident happened, who was at fault, and reveal potential gross negligence facts. Learn what top experts can do for the right case, what the law allows you to do with this information, and what reconstruction resources are available for more modest value cases.

Session 4: Using the Evidence You Have to get the Causation You Need - Cost-efficient ideas on how to use evidence, witnesses and other available resources to prove liability and injury causation without having to pay an expert. 

Session 5: Case Study: $30K Car Crash to $1 Million Verdict - Examine methods and strategies for maximizing value on routine car crash cases.

Session 6: Telling the Story of Your Case - There are fundamentals of story that apply to almost every aspect of trial. Jurors create narratives, and they are not in the form of “the evidence will show…” Implementing storytelling techniques can help any advocate, in any type of case, present the evidence closer to the form in which jurors comprehend and remember.

Session 7: Trying the Car Wreck Case from the Defense Perspective - A defense lawyer's opinion about why cases are lost.

Session 8: Developing a Winning Deposition Strategy - Discuss the fail-safe tricks to ensure you have a winning strategy at depositions.

Session 9: Overcoming the Problem Witness - Acquire the techniques to use against problem witnesses, including those who feign ignorance, are evasive, and are combative.

Session 10: Beating the Expert - Find out how to take an expert’s deposition—how to avoid being intimidated and how to set realistic, attainable goals when you depose the "expert."

Session 11: Developing Your Trial Cross Through the Adverse Deposition - Learn to take admission-seeking depositions of adverse witnesses so that they are effectively limited in their testimony at trial.

Session 12: Preparing Your Witness for Deposition - Witnesses win cases—and lose them. Learn how to keep your witness from giving it all up in a deposition and how to use the deposition to help prepare your witness to be a winner at trial.

Session 13: Dealing with Combative and Unscrupulous Lawyers - How to avoid intimidation and manage the disruptive, disreputable, and overly zealous lawyer in an ethical, civil, and professional manner.

Session 14: She Said, He Said: Plaintiff and Defense Perspectives on Damages - A plaintiff and defense attorney examine ways to prove, present, argue, and counter damages found on a typical jury charge in a car crash case. 

Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides