This ground-breaking book contains juror questions, proven themes, and pattern arguments that you can put to immediate use. For 9 different types of cases you receive, with recommendations specific to plaintiff and defendant:

Key juror biases
Key juror questions about the case
Persuasive elements
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Demonstrative evidence checklists
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Voir dire questions
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The case-specific chapters are:

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Auto accidents
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Slips and falls
Medical malpractice
Products liability

Business

Breach of business supply contract
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Employment

Race discrimination
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The book includes 88 re-usable four-color demonstratives in print and on CD. Read more.

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November 2009

Florida Estate Planning

by Jamie Pressly
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This big book contains 41 Florida-specific pattern wills and trusts annotated with alternate clauses, pitfalls to avoid, practice tips, recent cases, tax considerations, and more. For example, you receive:

Detailed coverage of issues

What wording creates a right of survivorship. §2:20
Pros and cons of making a bypass trust eligible for QTIP election. §8:180
Advantages and disadvantages of a disclaimer plan. §8:241
When is a codicil preferable to a new will? §9:10
When a living trust is justified. §11:04
The limits of spendthrift protection. §11:70
Deviating from the Principal and Income Act’s default provisions. §11:210
The consequences of a settlor transferring his homestead to a trust. §14:10
Strategies for minimizing the tax consequences of gifts in trust. §15:23

Helpful practice aids

Use the Client Questionnaire to get your client invested in the process and identify topics in advance that you should be prepared to discuss. §1:01
Avoid problems down the road that cannot be corrected by withdrawal with the Conflicts of Interest Disclosure for Spouses. §1:02
Prevent incorrect assumptions with the Tax Planning Flowcharts. §1:05
Answer questions in advance, aid client review, and document your advice with these detailed Cover Letters. §1:06

And dozens of additional tools. Read more.

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July 2009

Trial Preparation Tools

by Beth D. Osowski

Here are courtroom-tested strategies for success, plus 122 time-saving and omission-avoiding forms, checklists, logs, calendars, idea lists, tables, spreadsheets, and more.
For example:

120-day review

Checklist of evidence for each element in the proof rubric. §1:80
Checklist of logs. §1:81
120-day countdown calendar. Form 1-01
Quantifying pain and suffering form. Form 1-07
Theme log forms. Form 1-08

Jury

Jury questionnaires. Form 7-02
Voir dire questions. Form 7-05
Juror-rating matrix. Form 7-06

Openings

Effective first lines. Form 8-01
Neutralizing the negatives. Form 8-04
Introducing damages. Form 8-08
Burdens of proof. Form 8-09

Closings

Reminders about obligations. Form 11-01
Arguing causation when pre-existing injuries. Form 11-05
Arguing the damages. Form 11-06
Sample lines to end the argument. Form 11-07

And dozens more. Read more.

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February 2009

Exposing Deceptive Defense Doctors
by Dorothy Clay Sims

Ms. Sims' techniques for overcoming common defenses, pattern questions, secondary resources, and sophisticated tactics have proven effective in hundreds of depositions and trials in challenging the DME on:

Incomplete and biased defense medical exams. Chapter 2
Negative results on psychological tests. Chapter 5
Junk psychological tests. Chapter 6
Claims of malingering and exaggeration. Chapter 7
Ignoring symptoms of depression. Chapter 8
Failure to test or investigate for post-traumatic stress disorder. Chapter 9
Poor results on neurological or radiological tests. Chapter 15 and 16
Denying causation in neck and back injuries. Chapter 17
Minimizing pain. Chapter 18
Contradictory functional capacities evaluations. Chapter 20
Unfavorable long-term disability medical record. Chapter 21

Read more.

"Over the past thirty-five years, I’ve read hundreds of reports prepared by Vocational Rehabilitation Experts (VRE) hired by the defense. In addition, I’ve prepared scores of questions for plaintiff attorneys preparing to depose VRE. If I were to reconstruct all of the questions prepared, they would pale in comparison to the questions presented in chapter twenty-five of Exposing Deceptive Doctors by Dorothy Clay Sims. The questions alone, without reading the substance of the chapter, will facilitate a really good discovery deposition of a rehabilitation expert hired by the defense. Such experts are presumably retained to reduce the settlement value of a case."

--A.M. Gamboa, Jr., Ph.D., MBA

CEO and Senior Analyst

Vocational Economics, Inc.

"Dorothy Sims has spent more time and creative energy addressing the problem of dishonest IME doctors than any lawyer in America. Each page of Sims' book is an explosion of bold, creative thinking. I plan to review this book every time I take an IME deposition."

--Rick Friedman, Friedman, Rubin & Wright

Author of Rules of the Road and Polarizing the Case

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Client Intake, with Retainer Agreement

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Family Limited Partnerships

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Risks and Abuses with Foreign Trusts

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3 Motions in Limine to Exclude Junk Accident Reconstruction Science

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Deposing and Examining the Economist

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Deposing the Store Manager in a Slip and Fall Case

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Residual Functional Capacity in Musculoskeletal Impairments

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Social Security Disability: Who is Eligible?

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