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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 start this week’s discussion noting that while Tyson offers strategies to defeat plaintiff’s pain and ...

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 offer the jury a damages number always sparks a lively conversation, and defense counsel have strong ...

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: Defending Justice For All, explains, accepting responsibility will help “defuse the number one source of ...

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 3 Ways Plaintiff Attorneys Ensure Nuclear Verdicts highlights some of the strategies plaintiff’s ...

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 are more common than ever and are causing defense attorneys to tremble in their boots. Why is this ...