Description

For ten years David Ball on Damages has been America’s best selling text on proving damages. Now, David Ball on Damages 3 teaches you how to integrate the Reptile and Rules of the Road methods, along with new voir dire techniques, into the classic Damages method. Damages 3 provides step-by-step guidance on how to prepare opening statements, how to handle cross examinations and defense "expert" examinations, and new, key methods that explain the relationship between liability and damages. David Ball on Damages 3 is filled with improvements and refinements based on thousands of hours of research and real case preparation that Ball and his partners, Artemis Malekpour and Debra Miller, have uncovered since the second edition’s 2005 release. Ball explains why jurors give, why they do not, and how to motivate them to provide a large verdict. Damages 3 provides practical, effective, and innovative methods for pursuing damages, while alerting readers to pitfalls that both new and experienced attorneys are prone to. The techniques and tools provided in Damages 3 counter sophisticated opposition tactics, the public mood, and laws and rules that continue to grow more hostile.

Reviews

1. David Ball needs no introduction. His research into jury psychology and damages is invaluable to every plaintiffs’ lawyer out there. In his recent work – David Ball on Damages 3 – Mr. Ball seamlessly weaves together his visionary research and insight in the field of damages and jury psychology with concepts from Rules of the Road, Reptile, and more. In short, Mr. Ball has once again created a masterpiece. By using the concepts from his new book, my partner and I (age 29) recently were able to obtain a $3.9 million dollar jury verdict in a disputed liability case in a very conservative jurisdiction. Although the odds were against us, we utilized the sound principles and advice contained within Mr. Ball’s new book on damages. The result speaks for itself.
   —Torsten Bassell, ljblaw.com