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Answer Bar: Taking Your Car Crash Case to Trial
Contains material from Aug 2018 to Oct 2021
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Session 2: View from the Bench: Trial Basics - Hear observations and guidance from a trial judge.
Session 3: Accident Reconstruction Deconstructed - Technology and resources available today can allow post-accident physical evidence to resolve many fact disputes about how an incident happened, who was at fault, and reveal potential gross negligence facts. Learn what top experts can do for the right case, what the law allows you to do with this information, and what reconstruction resources are available for more modest value cases.
Session 4: Using the Evidence You Have to get the Causation You Need - Cost-efficient ideas on how to use evidence, witnesses and other available resources to prove liability and injury causation without having to pay an expert.
Session 5: Storytelling and Themes - The power of a simple story, it can transform the room, transform your audience, transform you.
Session 6: Stowers and Insurance Bad Faith in Car Crash Cases - This presentation provides basic background and advanced practice tips on how to prepare and leverage Stowers and insurance bad faith claims in car crash cases.
Session 7: Assessing and Proving Mental Anguish Damages in Personal Injury Cases - A practitioner’s guide to assessing and presenting evidence of compensable mental anguish damages in deposition and trial.
Session 8: Trying the Car Wreck Case from the Defense Perspective - A defense lawyer's opinion about why cases are lost.
Session 9: Developing a Winning Deposition Strategy - Discuss the fail-safe tricks to ensure you have a winning strategy at depositions.
Session 10: Overcoming the Problem Witness - How to handle the difficult witness, yours or theirs.
Session 11: Beating the Expert - Find out how to take an expert’s deposition—how to avoid being intimidated and how to set realistic, attainable goals when you depose the "expert."
Session 12: Developing Your Trial Cross Through the Adverse Deposition? - Learn to take admission-seeking depositions of adverse witnesses so that they are effectively limited in their testimony at trial.
Session 13: Preparing Your Witness for Deposition - Witnesses win cases—and lose them. Learn how to keep your witness from giving it all up in a deposition and how to use the deposition to help prepare your witness to be a winner at trial.
Session 14: She Said, He Said: Plaintiff and Defense Perspectives on Damages - A plaintiff and defense attorney examine ways to prove, present, argue, and counter damages found on a typical jury charge in a car crash case.
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Brian L. Mincher, Manpreet Kaur Singh
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Session 1
—45 mins
Trial Preparation 101 (Oct 2021)
Stressed in trial prep and at trial? Inevitable? Yes. Manageable? Absolutely. Learn tips and strategies from an experienced plaintiff and defense attorney for developing a case and preparing for trial.
Originally presented: Aug 2021 The Car Crash Seminar
Brian L. Mincher,
Burress Law PLLC - McKinney, TX
Manpreet Kaur Singh,
Fanaff, Hoagland, Gonzales & Baldwin - Houston, TX
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Hon. Eric M. Shepperd
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Session 2
—46 mins
View from the Bench: Trial Basics (Sep 2020)
Hear observations and guidance from a trial judge.
Originally presented: Aug 2020 Car Crash Seminar
Hon. Eric M. Shepperd,
Travis County Court at Law No. 2 - Austin, TX
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J. Luke Dow, Danny Phillips
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Session 3
—35 mins
Accident Reconstruction Deconstructed (Aug 2018)
Technology and resources available today can allow post-accident physical evidence to resolve many fact disputes about how an incident happened, who was at fault, and reveal potential gross negligence facts. Learn what top experts can do for the right case, what the law allows you to do with this information, and what reconstruction resources are available for more modest value cases.
Originally presented: Aug 2018 The Car Crash Seminar
J. Luke Dow,
Luke Dow Law Firm - Austin, TX
Danny Phillips,
Axiom Reconstruction, Inc. - Allen, TX
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Donald H. Kidd
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Session 4
—46 mins
Using the Evidence You Have to get the Causation You Need (Sep 2020)
Cost-efficient ideas on how to use evidence, witnesses and other available resources to prove liability and injury causation without having to pay an expert.
Originally presented: Aug 2020 Car Crash Seminar
Donald H. Kidd,
Perdue & Kidd - Houston, TX
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Tyrone C. Moncriffe
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Session 5
—27 mins
Storytelling and Themes (Oct 2021)
The power of a simple story, it can transform the room, transform your audience, transform you.
Originally presented: Aug 2021 The Car Crash Seminar
Tyrone C. Moncriffe,
Tyrone C. Moncriffe & Associates - Houston, TX
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Ray T. Khirallah Jr., Kenneth R. 'Kent' Chambers, Chris Hamilton
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Session 6
—47 mins
Stowers and Insurance Bad Faith in Car Crash Cases (Oct 2021)
This presentation provides basic background and advanced practice tips on how to prepare and leverage Stowers and insurance bad faith claims in car crash cases.
Originally presented: Aug 2021 The Car Crash Seminar
Ray T. Khirallah Jr.,
Hamilton Wingo, LLP - Dallas, TX
Kenneth R. 'Kent' Chambers,
Attorney at Law - Conroe, TX
Chris Hamilton,
Hamilton Wingo, LLP - Dallas, TX
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Daphny Ainslie, Psy.D., Glenn W. Cunningham
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Session 7
—30 mins
Assessing and Proving Mental Anguish Damages in Personal Injury Cases (Oct 2021)
A practitioner’s guide to assessing and presenting evidence of compensable mental anguish damages in deposition and trial.
Originally presented: Aug 2021 The Car Crash Seminar
Daphny Ainslie, Psy.D.,
Ainslie Consulting, PLLC - Austin, TX
Glenn W. Cunningham,
Law Offices of Glenn W. Cunningham - San Antonio, TX
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Bob Grove
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Session 8
—25 mins
Trying the Car Wreck Case from the Defense Perspective (Sep 2019)
A defense lawyer's opinion about why cases are lost.
Originally presented: Aug 2019 Car Crash Seminar
Bob Grove,
Retired, Grove, Ehlinger & Deaderick - Boerne, TX
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Shane Read
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Session 9
—48 mins
Developing a Winning Deposition Strategy (Jun 2021)
Discuss the fail-safe tricks to ensure you have a winning strategy at depositions.
Originally presented: Apr 2021 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Shane Read,
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas - Dallas, TX
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Paula Fisette Sweeney
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Session 10
—30 mins
Overcoming the Problem Witness (Jun 2021)
How to handle the difficult witness, yours or theirs.
Originally presented: Apr 2021 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Paula Fisette Sweeney,
Slack Davis Sanger LLP - Dallas, TX
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Quentin Brogdon
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Session 11
—47 mins
Beating the Expert (Jun 2021)
Find out how to take an expert’s deposition—how to avoid being intimidated and how to set realistic, attainable goals when you depose the "expert."
Originally presented: Apr 2021 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Quentin Brogdon,
Crain Brogdon Rogers, LLP - Dallas, TX
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Tracy Walters McCormack
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Session 12
—32 mins
Developing Your Trial Cross Through the Adverse Deposition? (Jun 2021)
Learn to take admission-seeking depositions of adverse witnesses so that they are effectively limited in their testimony at trial.
Originally presented: Apr 2021 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Tracy Walters McCormack,
The University of Texas School of Law - Austin, TX
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Manpreet Kaur Singh
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Session 13
—28 mins
Preparing Your Witness for Deposition (Jan 2020)
Witnesses win cases—and lose them. Learn how to keep your witness from giving it all up in a deposition and how to use the deposition to help prepare your witness to be a winner at trial.
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Manpreet Kaur Singh,
Fanaff, Hoagland, and Gonzales - Houston, TX
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Rachel Ambler, Denis Dennis
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Session 14
—45 mins
She Said, He Said: Plaintiff and Defense Perspectives on Damages (Sep 2020)
A plaintiff and defense attorney examine ways to prove, present, argue, and counter damages found on a typical jury charge in a car crash case.
Originally presented: Aug 2020 Car Crash Seminar
Rachel Ambler,
AmblerLaw, PLLC - Odessa, TX
Denis Dennis,
Kelly, Morgan, Dennis, Corzine & Hansen, P.C. - Odessa, TX