Jury trials are the principal method by which we resolve legal disputes parties cannot settle themselves through less formal methods. Although alternative dispute resolution methods such as arbitration, mediation, summary trials, private trials, and the like are becoming increasingly important, jury trials in the federal and state courts remain the most important dispute-resolving method in […]
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To Open or Not To Open? – Consider Waiving or Reserving Your Opening Statement
For the first time in my 25 years of trying cases to juries, I recently became faced with a set of facts in a case in which the plaintiff’s theory of the case was so diametrically opposed to the theory of my defense – with the parties’ respective damage claims being mutually exclusive, in the […]