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Impeachment in Personal Injury Cases: Advanced Strategies and Techniques

Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A

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Conducted on Friday, August 23, 2024

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This CLE webinar will offer trial lawyers practical guidance and tools for developing and enhancing their impeachment skills, including when not to try to impeach.

Description

The foundation of cross-examination, impeachment is a critical trial skill that can be learned and enhanced. Done well, it can make the difference at trial. Missteps can create risks and open doors not even the most experienced counsel can close.

Effective impeachment often relies on circumstantial evidence that is almost always outside the issues at trial or is otherwise inadmissible, which means that counsel will usually invoke the rules of impeachment in response to an objection. Counsel will need ready answers that justify the impeachment evidence.

Careful planning is required to know when to impeach and when not to, how to do it effectively and properly, the constructive areas of impeachment, and how to avoid asking one question too many.

Listen as this experienced panel of litigators offers personal injury lawyers (plaintiff and defense) practical and time-tested methods for practicing and improving impeachment skills.

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Outline

  1. Planning impeachment
  2. Areas of impeachment
  3. Impeachment techniques
  4. Tools for practicing

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • Can you ever impeach your own witness, and if so, when and how?
  • Is there a "science" of impeachment?
  • How does one obtain and admit the evidence needed for impeachment?

Faculty

Brogdon, Lauren
Lauren Brogdon
Partner and Chair, Crisis Management Practice Group
Haynes Boone

Ms. Brogdon has significant experience representing energy clients in suits related to hydraulic fracturing and other...  |  Read More

Warshauer, Michael
Michael J. Warshauer
Attorney
Warshauer Woodward Atkins

Mr. Warshauer has a successful track record of handling a variety of complex personal injury claims that result in...  |  Read More

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