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A passion for success: Ilya Lerma’s 2019 of Trial Structure, Witness Prep, and Reaching the Stars
“You can have the best evidence in the world, but if your client can’t relay their story in a compelling way, then why should a jury care? We are humans talking about human losses. Your client needs to be able to do that in a meaningful way.” Trial Structure’s Katonya Johnson sat down to find out more from Ilya Lerma.
$900,000 Verdict – Teehan
A jury in Duvall County, Florida awarded $900,000 to John Patrick Teehan, a signal maintainer who injured his back after working for the Florida East Coast Railroad for over 25 years. In the course of his signal maintainer work, Mr. Teehan had to lift batteries that...
$35M Consulting Verdicts in 2019, a Growing Law Firm, and Trial Structure. An Interview with Charles Bennett.
We sat down with Charles Bennett for an exclusive interview to discuss how cases he consulted on won over $35M in 2019, his philosophy for using Trial Structure, and where he sees himself and Trial Structure going from here.
The Science of Why Stories Persuade: Brain Mirroring and Listener Comprehension
Earlier this summer, I was sitting at my favorite Dallas coffee and wine bar with a friend who was in town to help me prepare a witness for one of my cases. It was late afternoon, and we both had empty coffee mugs in front of us. She was telling me about her recent...
$9M Verdict –– Hope Johnson
“Hope’s death is tragic because it was entirely preventable. We don’t know the exact number of patients seen that day, but it was too many,” according to Turnbull. “Patient well-being, not profits, should be the primary goal of healthcare.” BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (PRWEB)...
$476,000 Verdict – Scaturro
Scaturro v. Garcia–– July 2019 Kirill Tarasenko tried a case in Sacramento, California where plaintiff Rico Scaturro, was riding a motorcycle wearing a helmet but no other protective gear, including no gloves. A young driver who was inexperienced with a manual...
$5M Verdict – Reed
Reed v. Jackson Hospital & Clinic, Inc. –– July 2019 A jury awarded $5 million to the estate of a deceased woman as part of a verdict in a lawsuit against Montgomery’s Jackson Hospital. The jury in Montgomery County Circuit Court, in Alabama, deliberated about one...
$1.63M Verdict – Penn
Penn v. Jack in the Box -- June 2019 Brian Crockett, from Houston, Texas, secured a $1.63M verdict for a victim of a slip and fall outside of a Jack in the Box. After admitting that they caused the fall itself, Jack in the Box’s defense lawyers argued that the...
$12M Verdict – Hood
Hood v. S.E. Funeral Homes of Alabama, LLC –– February 2019 A Mobile family was awarded $12 million in a lawsuit against Mobile’s Pine Crest Funeral Home for losing the cremated remains of a family member and other violations. The jury voted on the verdict in late...
$1.4M Verdict – Barquinero
Barquinero v. GEICO –– May 2018 Last Pre-Trial Offer: $125,000 Albert Lechner represented a 50 year old lawyer initially from Peru and with an accent that was involved in a rear-end collision as a passenger as a 43 year old. The referring lawyer settled the case...
$26M Verdict – Hilario Cruz
Cruz v. Nissan North America, et al. –– July 2017 Trial against Nissan blaming faulty brakes for a car crash that killed three people. The case stems from a fatal 2012 crash caused by a critical failure in the braking system of a 2004 Infiniti QX56 SUV. When the...
$25M Verdict – Gamez
Gamez v. Dillon Transport Inc. –– January 2016 A $25 million judgement was entered in Nueces County District Court in Texas against a Chicago-area trucking company and two others in a crash that severely injured two local motorcyclists, announced 18-wheeler injury...
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