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Hon. Kristi Harrington
by Hon. Kristi Harrington
on Aug 23, 2023 9:50:18 AM

In our last article, we continued through Robert Tyson’s Nuclear Verdicts: Defending Justice For All. The discussion focused on the defense giving a damages number to the jury. It is important to ...

Always Give a Number, Defense Counsel!

In Week Two of our series on Robert Tyson’s Nuclear Verdicts, we delve into the concept of “giving a number” to the jury…by defense counsel. The mere suggestion that civil defense attorneys should ...

Always Accept Responsibility

ALWAYS. ACCEPT. RESPONSIBILITY. “But why accept responsibility if my client didn’t do anything wrong?” is a typical retort. As Robert Tyson, renowned trial lawyer and author of Nuclear Verdicts: ...

How to Avoid “Nuclear Verdict” Nightmares

How to Avoid A Nuclear Verdict? This is the question fueling defense lawyers’ nightmares, especially when their upcoming trial involves a catastrophically-injured plaintiff. Our last blog article Top ...

Top 3 Ways Plaintiff Attorneys Ensure Nuclear Verdicts

In 2015, the average verdict in the National Law Journal’s Top 100 Verdicts was a solid $64 million. By 2019, this average had more than tripled to a resounding $214 million.1 Today, nuclear verdicts ...