Playbook Live 2023

Presented by Spencer Lucas and Matthew Stumpf, this session focuses on the key elements of working up a TBI case, with an emphasis on understanding the latest technology and neuroscience, how to effectively rebut defense experts and how to prepare plaintiff’s experts and witnesses to support your clients’ damages demands.

In this two-part session, you will learn techniques for developing successful cause challenges and how you can apply them in your own cases. Rahul Ravipudi, Paul Traina, and Sonia Chopra will discuss how to focus on identifying facts and concepts in your mini opening statement to bring out jury bias, how to effectively start...

This session is a continuation of Cause Challenges During Jury Selection – Part I.

In the #MeToo era, the California Supreme Court and other State Supreme Courts have been repeatedly taking up cases interpreting the special relationship doctrine. Special relationship duties involve a heightened duty of care and traditionally cover the common carrier, the innkeeper, schools, athletic organizations, and universities. A special relationship may also be created by...

Being a plaintiff’s lawyer is about more than winning big verdicts and settlements. Brian Panish discusses how plaintiff’s lawyers can be catalysts of significant and positive change.