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Back to the basics of expert depositions

Create a deposition template for each type of professional you will likely depose and let it be your guide as you explore the expert’s case file


Two important and medically related depositions

The [[case]]Moradi[[/case]] deposition and the underinsured defendant; the treating doctor


Understanding spine injuries

Can someone be hurt when the MRI is negative? Medical knowledge is a key to success in back- and neck-injury litigation


Allowing canine behavior to guide advocacy in dog-bite litigation

Understanding why and how dogs bite allows us to effectively communicate our clients’ stories without polarizing jurors in a largely dog-loving society


The spine and spineless defense tactics

Treating doctors can prove causation, talk about medical bills, and blow defense theories out of the water


Hips don’t lie

A look at hip injuries and treatments, and misconceptions about hip injuries


Partial-hand amputations

Severed fingers and other partial-hand amputations are incredibly serious injuries requiring patients to undergo a long and onerous road to recovery


Traumatic-brain-injury experts 101

Ensuring your brain-injured client gets the medical treatment they need


Nuclear voir dire

While focusing on voir dire in employment cases, here are valuable tips for all types of jury selection in today’s social environment


A Day-in-the-Life video can be a powerful tool

A properly prepared Day-in-the-Life video is a compelling evidentiary presentation of a client’s daily disabilities


An “executive summary” for your plaintiff’s case

Help your client and your case by getting to the point


Appellate Review

Arbitration agreements in health-care settings; also, the “baseball rule” on assumption of the risk; legal malpractice, causation and anti-SLAPP


Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (FAIR) make progress in Congress

Also: FRE72 Expert-witness rulemaking by federal judges


CAOC works to get to know candidates – and vice versa

CAOC-endorsed candidates for the June primary election


Does a tree that falls in the forest make any sound?

Publicize your good deeds with charities such as OCTLC


A sense of normalcy but no time for complacency

The LA legal community looks very different today than it did just a couple short months ago