Legal advocacy has changed. The pandemic has seen courts and parties adopting technology to depose witnesses, hold hearings and mediations, and conduct trials in all-virtual or “hybrid” environments (such as jury selection by Zoom and trial in person). As a result, the ways attorneys tell case stories have had to adapt to the unique situational…

It’s a different world than when most of us graduated from law school or entered the legal profession. In 2016, TIME reported on a study by UCLA’s Williams Institute, which estimated .6% of the country’s population identified as transgender – a number that translated to 1.4 million Americans at the time, and a figure that…

When you’re an expert witness, standing out among the competition and finding long-term success is no easy task.
As a consulting firm constantly working with attorneys and their witnesses, we at Litigation Insights have heard, and seen, the horror stories: Witnesses can be tough to work with, exhibit behaviors and body language that damage their…

In Part 1, we discussed the major narrative-framing strategies plaintiffs employ to coax jurors into awarding massive damages. However, a number of additional psychological and case-specific factors are at play, and these are just as important to keep in mind as you weigh the risks of encountering a nuclear verdict – and your potential…

There has been a recent increase in the number of nuclear verdicts handed down by jurors, including the largest award from 2019: an eye-popping $8 billion. For defendants, this trend has generated even more uncertainty and anxiety about taking a case to trial.
Technically speaking, a ‘nuclear verdict’ is defined as a verdict in favor…

I recently participated in a roundtable on the topic of virtual depositions for the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association’s Class Action, Mass Tort, and Multi-District Litigation Practice Group. The panelists, which also included magistrate judges and practicing attorneys, discussed our experiences with this remote format.
As it turned out, many of the experiences…

PowerPoint is a software with a deep end and a shallow end. It can be very powerful, but Microsoft has built it to allow novice users to create decently polished presentations without a huge learning curve.
And because it was developed to appeal to a wide range of user abilities and familiarities, some of the…