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Articles in this issue:

Powerful ways to prove your client’s brain injury objectively

Don’t just defend the “subjective” evidence of a brain injury, use state-of-the- art multi-disciplinary “objective” evidence to prove your client’s brain injury


Evaluating the legal-malpractice case

The complex statute of limitations and the “case within the case”


ESI in discovery and at trial….ready for it?

Become a mastermind of metadata and other electronically stored information


Holding Child Protective Services accountable

The CPS system is broken but there are strategies to bring justice to its victims


Dog bites

What you don’t know can take a big bite out of your case


Expert-witness disclosure in federal court

The case often comes down to a battle of experts. Be prepared for that battle


Persuasion science for trial lawyers

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” — Scientist and astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson


Your client filed for bankruptcy: What now?

A look at how a PI claim can become an asset in a bankruptcy estate that may be used to pay creditors


Your plaintiff died. Now what?

Amending the complaint to allege a survival action or wrongful death claim


Medicine for attorneys: Fractures

How to present fractures and associated injuries at trial


Celebrate!

From Gay Pride to emancipation of slaves to men’s health, June is a time for awareness of others and self


The joy of jury service

The trial by civil jury, guaranteed by the Seventh Amendment, is what keeps us all going


Insurance industry tort-reform provisions on litigation funding defeated by CAOC

Litigation funding plays an important role for PI plaintiffs and is often a last-choice resort for injured victims


Federal legislation offered to prohibit arbitration in cases of race discrimination

Also: Massachusetts statutory interest rates declared constitutional in $37M judgment against Philip Morris


How we give

A look at how decisions are made on the financial support we provide in Southern California


Appellate Reports

Supreme court rules governmental design immunity for dangerous roads does not categorically preclude failure-to-warn claims; also, public liability for dangerous sidewalks