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Civil Litigation,
Law Practice

Jul. 27, 2018

Evaluating personal injury cases: evidentiary issues

Never take a firm settlement position without having a good understanding of the ability of each side to present important evidence to the jury.

Lars C. Johnson

Mediator
Signature Resolution

Fax: (818) 348-7921

Lars was a litigator for 20 years before joining Signature as a full-time mediator. He has extensive experience handling high-stakes catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, as well as insurance coverage disputes.

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Evaluating personal injury cases: evidentiary issues
Sometimes your case comes down to one or two critical witnesses. Having a good sense of how those witnesses will perform at trial is critical to your case evaluation. (Shutterstock)

We have all handled cases that were billed a certain way only to collapse under scrutiny. It is one thing for a lawyer to spin evidence; it is an entirely different matter to successfully present your case to the jury. Never take a firm settlement position without having a good understanding of the ability of each side to present important evidence to the jury.

IMPORTANT WITNESSES

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