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Answer Bar: Taking Your Car Crash Case to Trial
Contains material from Aug 2018 to Oct 2022
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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: Overcoming “Bad Facts” A Plaintiff and Defense Perspective - Tips and tricks to deal with low property damage, pre-existing conditions, gaps in treatment, lack of medical bills, DWI, criminal clients, and more at trial.
Session 5: Seatbelts and Police Officer Testimony - Evidence about seat belts and the investigating officer’s opinions has the potential to be outcome determinative in a car crash case. What evidence should come before the jury, and what should be kept out?
Session 6: Medical Expenses in Car Crash Cases after In re Allstate: an Update from Discovery to Trial - This presentation discusses the nuts and bolts of proving or challenging medical expenses in car crash cases, including: the current state of TCPRC Section 18.001 after In re Allstate, strategies for striking (or not striking) 18.001 counter-affidavits, the use of depositions by written questions, and other non-party and expert discovery issues arising from recent Texas Supreme Court case law.
Session 7: Trying Cases Without Medical Bills - Texas law has made it difficult to try cases with our medical bills. That burden creates an avenue to trying cases without them and opening doors to greater potential verdicts.
Session 8: Storytelling and Themes - The power of a simple story, it can transform the room, transform your audience, transform you.
Session 9: Assessing and Proving Mental Anguish Damages in Personal Injury Cases - A practitioner’s guide to assessing and presenting evidence of compensable mental anguish damages in deposition and trial.
Session 10: Proving Up Future Damages - Including medical and lost wages.
Session 11: Developing a Winning Deposition Strategy - Discuss the fail-safe tricks to ensure you have a winning strategy at depositions.
Session 12: Overcoming the Problem Witness - How to handle the difficult witness, yours or theirs.
Session 13: 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 14: 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 15: 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.
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 9.50 | 0.25 ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 2/29/2024
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Brian L. Mincher, Manpreet Kaur Singh
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Session 1
—45 mins
0.75
Trial Preparation 101 (Oct 2021)
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.
Originally presented: Aug 2021 The Car Crash Seminar
Brian L. Mincher,
Burress Law PLLC - McKinney, TX
Manpreet Kaur Singh,
Fanaff, Hoagland, Gonzales & Baldwin - Houston, TX
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Hon. Eric M. Shepperd
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Session 2
—46 mins
0.75
View from the Bench: Trial Basics (Sep 2020)
Hear observations and guidance from a trial judge.
Originally presented: Aug 2020 Car Crash Seminar
Hon. Eric M. Shepperd,
Travis County Court at Law No. 2 - Austin, TX
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J. Luke Dow, Danny Phillips
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Session 3
—35 mins
0.50
Accident Reconstruction Deconstructed (Aug 2018)
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.
Originally presented: Aug 2018 The Car Crash Seminar
J. Luke Dow,
Luke Dow Law Firm - Austin, TX
Danny Phillips,
Axiom Reconstruction, Inc. - Allen, TX
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Stephanie Baenisch, John Martinez
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Session 4
—43 mins
0.75
Overcoming “Bad Facts” A Plaintiff and Defense Perspective (Oct 2022)
Tips and tricks to deal with low property damage, pre-existing conditions, gaps in treatment, lack of medical bills, DWI, criminal clients, and more at trial.
Originally presented: Aug 2022 The Car Crash Seminar
Stephanie Baenisch,
Dallas, TX
John Martinez,
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company - San Antonio, TX
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Quentin Brogdon
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Session 5
—44 mins
0.75
Seatbelts and Police Officer Testimony (Oct 2022)
Evidence about seat belts and the investigating officer’s opinions has the potential to be outcome determinative in a car crash case. What evidence should come before the jury, and what should be kept out?
Originally presented: Aug 2022 The Car Crash Seminar
Quentin Brogdon,
Crain Brogdon LLP - Dallas, TX
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Morgan A. McPheeters
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Session 6
—45 mins
0.75 | 0.25 ethics
Medical Expenses in Car Crash Cases after In re Allstate: an Update from Discovery to Trial (Oct 2022)
This presentation discusses the nuts and bolts of proving or challenging medical expenses in car crash cases, including: the current state of TCPRC Section 18.001 after In re Allstate, strategies for striking (or not striking) 18.001 counter-affidavits, the use of depositions by written questions, and other non-party and expert discovery issues arising from recent Texas Supreme Court case law.
Originally presented: Aug 2022 The Car Crash Seminar
Morgan A. McPheeters,
McPheeters Law, PLLC - Dallas, TX
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C. Robert Dorsett Jr., L. Todd Kelly
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Session 7
—46 mins
0.75
Trying Cases Without Medical Bills (Oct 2022)
Texas law has made it difficult to try cases with our medical bills. That burden creates an avenue to trying cases without them and opening doors to greater potential verdicts.
Originally presented: Aug 2022 The Car Crash Seminar
C. Robert Dorsett Jr.,
Dorsett Johnson, LLP - Austin, TX
L. Todd Kelly,
The Carlson Law Firm - Austin, TX
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Tyrone C. Moncriffe
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Session 8
—27 mins
0.50
Storytelling and Themes (Oct 2021)
The power of a simple story, it can transform the room, transform your audience, transform you.
Originally presented: Aug 2021 The Car Crash Seminar
Tyrone C. Moncriffe,
Tyrone C. Moncriffe & Associates - Houston, TX
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Daphny Ainslie, Psy.D., Glenn W. Cunningham
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Session 9
—30 mins
0.50
Assessing and Proving Mental Anguish Damages in Personal Injury Cases (Oct 2021)
A practitioner’s guide to assessing and presenting evidence of compensable mental anguish damages in deposition and trial.
Originally presented: Aug 2021 The Car Crash Seminar
Daphny Ainslie, Psy.D.,
Ainslie Consulting, PLLC - Austin, TX
Glenn W. Cunningham,
Law Offices of Glenn W. Cunningham - San Antonio, TX
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John D. Plumlee
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Session 10
—26 mins
0.50
Proving Up Future Damages (Oct 2022)
Including medical and lost wages.
Originally presented: Aug 2022 The Car Crash Seminar
John D. Plumlee,
Attorney at Law - Austin, TX
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Shane Read
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Session 11
—48 mins
0.75
Developing a Winning Deposition Strategy (Jun 2021)
Discuss the fail-safe tricks to ensure you have a winning strategy at depositions.
Originally presented: Apr 2021 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Shane Read,
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas - Dallas, TX
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Paula Fisette Sweeney
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Session 12
—30 mins
0.50
Overcoming the Problem Witness (Jun 2021)
How to handle the difficult witness, yours or theirs.
Originally presented: Apr 2021 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Paula Fisette Sweeney,
Slack Davis Sanger LLP - Dallas, TX
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Quentin Brogdon
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Session 13
—47 mins
0.75
Beating the Expert (Jun 2021)
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."
Originally presented: Apr 2021 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Quentin Brogdon,
Crain Brogdon Rogers, LLP - Dallas, TX
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Tracy Walters McCormack
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Session 14
—32 mins
0.50
Developing Your Trial Cross Through the Adverse Deposition? (Jun 2021)
Learn to take admission-seeking depositions of adverse witnesses so that they are effectively limited in their testimony at trial.
Originally presented: Apr 2021 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Tracy Walters McCormack,
The University of Texas School of Law - Austin, TX
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Manpreet Kaur Singh
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Session 15
—28 mins
0.50
Preparing Your Witness for Deposition (Jan 2020)
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.
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Manpreet Kaur Singh,
Fanaff, Hoagland, and Gonzales - Houston, TX