Attorney Uses Trial Guides Techniques to Win Verdict 10x Higher Than Settlement Offer

Congratulations to Kyle R. Wright of the Ohio law firm Kademenos, Wisehart, Hines, Dolyk & Wright Co. LPA for securing a $500,000 verdict on be...
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Trial Tactics from Wilson, Friedman, and Rowley lead to $8.3 Million Verdict

Trial Tactics from Wilson, Friedman, and Rowley lead to $8.3 Million Verdict

Congratulations to Randy Rozek and his team at Rozek Law Offices, S. C., for securing a phenomenal verdict on behalf of their injured clients. Discover which Trial Guides products helped Randy achieve this substantial verdict. 
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Keith Mitnik’s Don’t Eat the Bruises reaches 100 customer reviews with a 4.9 star rating

Keith Mitnik’s Don’t Eat the Bruises reaches 100 customer reviews with a 4.9 star rating

Today we are recognizing Keith Mitnik’s best selling book Don’t Eat the Bruises for reaching 100 customer reviews. 

The book covers Keith’s insights from his work as lead litigation strategist at Morgan & Morgan, creating ideas and then testing them on a wide variety of cases through the firm’s rapidly expanding nation-wide law firm.  It provides Keith to test his ideas in a wide variety of venues throughout the country, through many different lawyers, and in cases ranging from “minor impact” auto claims and premises liability cases to medical malpractice, tobacco litigation and beyond.  Many of the concepts in the book address practical skills during voir dire, opening statement, case framing and damages.

Readers have found Don’t Eat the Bruises to be one of their favorite Trial Guides books, indicated by very positive customer feedback to our staff, high sales, many success stories, and written customer ratings and reviews.  Throughout the first 100 reviews, Don’t Eat the Bruises has achieved a 4.9 star rating.

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Trial Guides Founder Aaron DeShaw Wins $77.5M Verdict in Amputation Case

Trial Guides is announcing a new customer success story for one of the largest personal injury verdicts of 2023.

Trial Guides Founder Aaron DeShaw has obtained a $77.5 million verdict in a recent amputation case using multiple influences from Trial Guides. His $77.5 million compensatory damages verdict is the largest personal injury verdict in Oregon history, and believed to be the highest single leg amputation verdict in the United States.  As with other customer success stories, we asked Aaron for some insights on how he obtained the verdict that might help other Trial Guides customers.

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Michael Viglione Receives $7 Million Verdict On Challenging TBI Case

In November of 2022, attorney Michael Viglione obtained a $7,265,800 verdict for two senior citizens, ages 86 and 78, who were injured in a car cra...
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Trial Guides Customer Receives 7-Figure Verdict On “Non-Catastrophic” Case

Attorney Nicholas Cronauer used lessons from Witness Preparation, Polarizing the Case, Rules of the Road and Trial By Human for an outstanding tri...
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Trial Guides Contributing Author Brian Kim and Maureen Hennessey Win $18.79 Million Jury Verdict on “Slip and Fall” Case

Trial Guides contributing author uses lessons from Don’t Eat The Bruises, Trial by Human, and Witness Preparation for an outstanding plaintiff outcome. This verdict is considered one of the largest slip and fall jury verdicts for a lumbar spine injury that did not result in quadriplegia.

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Lessons from Damages Evolving, Trial by Human, form Cornerstone of $4 Million Brain Injury Verdict

Trial Guides wishes to congratulate Phil Hall (Pensacola, FL) and co-counsel Chris Crawford on their recent $4 million verdict. Hall was primary co...
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Becoming a Trial Lawyer Review

I'm hard pressed to think of a more useful tool for starting out in practice than Rick Friedman's Becoming a Trial Lawyer.  There's the classic nig...
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Trial Guides Customer Tom Wuori Wins $13.4M Premises Liability Verdict

Congratulations to Trial Guides customer Tom Wuori, of Ringsmuth Wuori, for his recent $13.4 million verdict!  Tom credits lessons learned from Rul...
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Attorney Uses Five Trial Guides Books to Win Six-Figure Verdict

Congratulations to trial lawyer—and Trial Guides customer—Angie Perkins on her recent verdict! Perkins was co-counsel on a wrongful termination and...
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Recent $352 Million Verdict

Congratulations to trial lawyers Randy and Alex Sorrels, of Sorrels Law in Houston, Texas, for their recent $352.7 million verdict! The Sorrels cre...
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Savage & Turner Attorney Wins $3 Million Verdict for Military ENT Surgeon Injured in Bicycle Crash on Islands Highway

After three consecutive multimillion-dollar jury verdicts, Sprouse credits lessons examined and explained in The Domino Theory by author and trial ...
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$91 Million Verdict on $25k Offer

A verdict from Eric Fong, Port Orchard, Washington A man named Will walks into a convenience store for a Gatorade. Unbeknownst to him, the store is...
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$1.65 Million Verdict During Covid-19 Using Don't Eat The Bruises

On April 1, 2021, amidst COVID-19 precautions, a jury returned a verdict for $1.65 million for a pelvic prolapse with symptoms that first appeared five months after a wreck. Mild to moderate prolapse had been noted at various times in the years before the wreck. Attorney Dirk Vandever used methods from Keith Mitnik’s book, Don’t Eat the Bruises, which once again proved their effectiveness. Find out more about how Vandever obtained the verdict.
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Trial Guides Product Review Blog Post

Seeking Product Reviews, Customer Success Stories & Journal Articles

Find out more about product reviews, the Trial Guides product review page, Customer Success Story blog posts, and legal organization product reviews.
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$3.42 million Noneconomic Damages Verdict in Hidalgo County, Texas

$3.42 million Noneconomic Damages Verdict in Hidalgo County, Texas

In Hidalgo County, Texas, attorneys Michael Cowen and Malorie Peacock of Cowen Rodriguez and Peacock obtained a just multimillion-dollar verdict for the widow of a man who died during a trench collapse. Read more about how they obtained the verdict.

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$84 Million verdict using Rules of the Road and Reptile

$84 Million verdict using Rules of the Road and Reptile

A jury in Dallas County Texas recently returned an $84 million verdict against U-Haul Corporation in a negligence case for failure to inspect, warn of dangers, and repair its trucks. Plaintiff's trial attorneys Marquette Wolf and Ted Lyon of Texas argued the case. 

Attorney Wolf patterned his arguments after the "Reptile" research in David Ball and Don Keenan's newest book, Reptile: The 2009 Manual of the Plaintiff's Revolution. When used in conjunction with the technique outlined in Rules of the Road, this research has the power to negate tort reform. Wolf suggested to the jury that corporations must follow the rules, and added that corporations know how to be careful, but only choose to do so when protecting their money rather than people.

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$7.05 Million verdict credited to David Ball's Welcome to the Revolution

$7.05 Million verdict credited to David Ball's Welcome to the Revolution

Attorney Chris Stombaugh of Wisconsin recently obtained a $7.05 million verdict on a construction site accident verdict in Iowa. He credits a substantial factor of his success to David Ball's "Uber Rule" discussed in his Trial Guides Welcome to the Revolution CLE.

In his own words:

"I listened to your Trial Guides presentation [Welcome to the Revolution].

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New Lawyer Obtains $700,000 and $4 Million Verdicts Using Polarizing the Case

New Lawyer Obtains $700,000 and $4 Million Verdicts Using Polarizing the Case

In his book Polarizing the Case, Rick Friedman teaches us not to fear allegations or insinuations that our client is malingering or exaggerating injuries. Instead he provides, in his own words, "a guidebook for wrapping the malingering defense around the neck of the defense lawyer and strangling him with it."

Here is what one young lawyer did with his copy of Polarizing the Case:

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Rules of the Road books for lawyers

Lawyer gets $7.9 million trial verdict using Rules of the Road

Rules of the Road is the nation's best selling book for lawyers on proving liability. Lawyers regularly let us know how well it works. The following is one story we recently received:

"If you read no other book, Rick Friedman's Rules of the Road, is mandatory reading. I would suggest you read it prior to conducting discovery.

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Lawyer gets $7.9 million using Rules of the Road

Lawyer gets $7.9 million using Rules of the Road

Rules of the Road is the nation's best selling book on proving liability. Lawyers regularly let us know how well it works. The following is one customer success story we recently received:

"If you read no other book, Rick Friedman's Rules of the Road, is mandatory reading. I would suggest you read it prior to conducting discovery.

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Lawyer Uses David Ball on Damages to Obtain $1.25 Million Verdict

Lawyer Uses David Ball on Damages to Obtain $1.25 Million Verdict

We recently received the following lawyer success story using the methods in David Ball on Damages.

"Sussex County is rural and is arguably one of the most conservative counties in N.J.. Last night at 6pm following an 8 day trial and a 3 hour deliberation, the Sussex County Jury returned a verdict of $1.25m! This represents one of the largest personal injury verdicts in county history and will be front page news tomorrow. Our client Jill Yucius (age 27) sustained an injury to her low back requiring fusion surgery and sustained an injury to her shoulder requiring arthroscopic surgery following an auto accident. The defense attorney had valued the case at less than $200,000...

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Customer Obtains Excess Verdict Using David Ball on Damages

Customer Obtains Excess Verdict Using David Ball on Damages

Trial Guides received the following customer success story from David Ball.

"I just wanted to follow up with you regarding the method described in your book, CDs and seminars on Damages. Thank you for your help.

When I went to the ATLA Damages College I had already read your book on Damages, and listened to your CD. I was comfortable with your method and was looking to refine my skills. The case I worked on at the ATLA Damages seminar was a dental malpractice case where an oral surgeon severed my client's lingual nerve while extracting a lower wisdom tooth, leaving half of his tongue permanently numb.

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