Negotiation and Settlement Negotiation and Settlement: Tools, Tactics and Forms Most lawsuits settle before the trial. Lawyers recognize that negotiation skills and knowledge are now necessary to success in handling litigation. We intend to fill your need for the best legal negotiation and settlement texts, tactics, checklists and forms. Our catalog will lead you to our texts, checklists, […] Read more »
Legally Permissible Witness Preparation #WIT5101 Legally Permissible Witness Preparation: short version. § 1 Preparing your witness to testify. It is ethically and legally proper for a lawyer to interview a witness and prepare the witness to testify. Comment (b) to Section 116 of the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers lists a wide range of permissible witness preparation activities. […] Read more »
Clarify Testimony “Clarify” is a wonderful word! Give your witnesses a method for correcting their mistakes: a method they can use as soon as they realize they either were mistaken or misspoke. Witnesses are under pressure during testimony. They remember imperfectly, or express themselves imperfectly or incorrectly, or they say “yes” to a leading question in a […] Read more »
Witness Preparation Use trial and deposition witness preparation forms to improve the testimony of your witnesses at deposition and trial Good trial lawyers use witness preparation forms and handouts to have the witness be the best they can be. With proper witness preparation forms to aid you, you will: Improve your own witnesses’ skills, to help them […] Read more »
Battle-Quick Exhibit Foundations, Sample Pages Two Samples from Battle-Quick Exhibit Foundations Computer animation, enhancement, or simulation [This is only a sample – one item from one page of the form. The full form checklist and text is over 20 pages long.] Some commentators and courts divide computer generated demonstrative evidence into two distinct categories of evidence: simulations and animations. (1) […] Read more »
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Bodily Injury Litigation Bodily Injury Forms For Litigation Attorneys This page lists a few of our legal forms which are particularly helpful in cases involving personal injury to the body of someone, no matter in what kind of accident. From Motor Vehicle Accidents to Premises Fall Downs to Product Liability — if there is a bodily injury, this […] Read more »
ESI – Electronic Info Forms, Discovery, Depositions Lawyer-Built, Lawyer-Friendly Electronic Data Deposition and Litigation Tools ESI Deposition Question Outline Checklists, Litigation Hold Letters, and Usable e-Evidence Techniques. Experience more ways to make your electronic document discovery and litigation easier. Now you can save hours of time. Use available superior litigation hold letters, deposition outlines and trial questions checklist forms, and mentoring tips […] Read more »
Ultimate Issue Expert Questions This following complimentary form or article is a result of our mission statement: “Making Good Lawyers Better.” Thank you for being a lawyer! Prepare your expert witness to answer three ultimate questions. Use this three pattern question formula in most negligence cases. This article is part of the LawyerTrialForms™ program of “Making Good Lawyer’s Better.” […] Read more »
The “Ten Categories Cross” (of an expert) There are ten categories of cross examination questions that you can almost always use in cross-examining an expert witness. Use this complimentary form to quickly think and organize your thoughts about questions in each of the ten categories. Using this form: The following one page form is designed to be placed in your trial notebook […] Read more »