Trial

In one of the latest intersections between technology and the courtroom, the Third Circuit has ruled that a particular brand of probabilistic genotyping DNA software (TrueAllele) is reliable enough to be used at trial. In a world of ever evolving technology, it is...

As multi-million dollar verdicts rise across the country, a new trend is emerging among defendants and insurers: retaining appellate counsel prior to trial. Naturally, trial attorneys are responsible for preserving arguments for appeal. But devastating verdicts and...

The problem: Most toxic tort trials involve only 1-2 defendants, despite the existence of evidence implicating numerous, even dozens, of other entities as contributing to the plaintiff’s exposure to a toxic substance.  Because the trial defendant is the topic of the...