BASIC TRIALS
Preparation for Trial
- Preliminary Interview with Client
- Selection of Remedy, Jurisdiction, and Forum
- Determining Extent of Injuries and Damages
- Negligence Actions
Selection of Jury
- Addressing and Questioning Jury Panel
- Voir Dire Examinations and Challenging of Jurors
- Selection or Rejection of Juror
- Biased and Prejudice
Trying the Case
- Opening Address
- Direct Examination
- Documentary Evidence, Exhibits, Memoranda, etc.
- Expert and Opinion Evidence
- Demonstrations and Experiments
- Cross-Examinations
- Redirect Examination: Rebuttal Evidence
- Summation
- Instructions
Proof of Specific Facts
- Admissions
- Business Entries, Records, and Reports
- Business Profits
- Causation
- Character or Reputation
- Copies and Duplicates: Secondary Evidence
- Death Actions
- Disability Impairment
- Fraud
- Handwriting
- Injuries
- Intention or Motive
- Intoxication
- Judicial Notice
- Medical Expenses
- Mental Condition
- Pain and Suffering
- Photographs
- Prior Accidents or Injuries
- Qualified Testimony
- Real Property
- Res Gestae
- Speed
- Testimony at Former Trial
- X-rays
Trial of Specific Actions
- Account Stated
- Adverse Possession
- Agency
- Airplanes
- Amusements
- Animals
- Assault and Battery
- Attractive Nuisances
- Automobiles
- Easements
- Elevators
- Highways
- Hotels, Motels and Inns
- Landlord and Tenant
- Motor Carriers
- Physicians and Surgeons: Malpractice
- Product Liability
- Railroads
- Sidewalks
- Slander and Libel
- Stores, Offices and Business Places
- Unfair Competition
DOLLAR VERDICTS
Rule of Comparative Verdicts
- Prefatory Matters: Scope, Plan of Presentation
- Practice Pointers: Nature of Injury and Losses, Pleading, Discovery, Settlement,
Trial, Expert Witnesses, Proof of Facts, Instructions, Appeal, Remittitur and
Additur
Tabulation of Comparative Verdicts
- Lists damages for specific injuries - from abdomen to wrist - in amounts
ranging from excessive and not excessive to adequate and inadequate
PROOF OF TRAUMATIC INJURIES
- General Figures
- Anatomy and Function of Joints
- Medical Terminology
- Medical Texts
- Diagnostic Procedures
- Medical Witnesses
- Medical Specialties
- Hospital Records
Proof of Scientific Injuries
- Describes various approaches to proof - from anatomy and function of the
abdomen to the use of X-rays in criminal investigations
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