David Ball on Damages 3 (Audiobook)

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Publisher's note: This is the audiobook version of the Trial Guides hardback edition of David Ball on Damages 3. David Ball reads you the content on this book.

David Ball on Damages is America's bestselling 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 partner, Artemis Malekpour, 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 that Damages 3 provides counter sophisticated opposition tactics, the public mood, and laws and rules that continue to grow more hostile.

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Author

David Ball

Trial Consultant

Details

CD/Audio Digital Download: 788 minutes; 12 discs; 3rd edition (2011); ISBN: 978-1934833407

Publisher: Trial Guides, LLC

Table of Contents

Disc 1 [69:54]

1. David Ball on Damages 3
2. Preface
3. Introduction
4. Chapter 1. Fundamentals
5. Introduction: The Poisoned Pool
6. Fundamental One: Juror Self-Protection
7. Fundamental Two: Proportion of Time on Harms and Losses
8. Fundamental Three: You
9. Fundamental Four: Client's Point of View
10. Fundamental Five: Defendant Conduct
11. Fundamental Six: Inadvertent Wrongdoing
12. Fundamental Seven: Worthwhileness of Money
13. Fundamental Eight: Fix, Help, Make Up For

Disc 2 [69:53]

1. Chapter 1 (continued). Fundamental Nine: Degree of Harms and Losses
2. Fundamental Ten: Who Gets the Money?
3. Fundamental Eleven: Importance
4. Fundamental Twelve: Going Home Afterward
5. Fundamental Thirteen: Compromise Kills
6. Fundamental Fourteen: Seen Worse, Been Worse
7. Fundamental Fifteen: People Should Pay for Their Own Problems
8. Fundamental Sixteen: Divine Punishment ("God is My Co-Juror")
9. Fundamental Seventeen: Don't Wanna Punish the Defendant
10. Chapter 2. Noneconomic Damages
11. Obstacle 1: No Worthwhileness
12. Obstacle 2: No Way to Calculate
13. Obstacle 3: Can’t Define "Compensation"
14. Obstacle 4: Defense Plea for Jury Nullification
15. Obstacle 5: Bad Comparison to Economic Damages
16. Obstacle 6: Why Pay Family to be Caretakers? Why Pay for Professional Care When the Family Can Do It?
17. Obstacle 7: "Even If That's the Right Amount, It's Far Too Much for Any Individual"
18. Chapter 3. Rules for Jurors: Preponderance; Harms and Losses Only
19. The Preponderance Template
20. The Preponderance Formula
21. Preponderance Template: Jury Voir Dire

Disc 3 [67:19]

1. Chapter 3 (continued). Preponderance Template: Opening (The Boilerplate Tag)
2. Preponderance Template in Plaintiff's Testimony
3. Preponderance Template in Defense Testimony
4. Preponderance Template in Closing
5. Preponderance Template: Conclusion
6. The Harms-and-Losses-Only Template
7. The Harms-and-Losses-Only Template: Jury Voir Dire
8. The Harms-and-Losses-Only Template: Opening
9. The Harms-and-Losses-Only Template: Testimony
10. The Harms-and-Losses-Only Template: Closing
11. Chapter 4. With or Without Jury Voir Dire
12. Voir Dire Limitations: Fight Them! No Voir Dire? Fight for It
13. Juror's First Impression: Primacy and Persistence
14. How to Ask
15. Tort "Reform"
16. Noneconomic Damages: Spotting Problem Jurors
17. Other Noneconomic Elements
18. Tolerance for Pain
19. Asking about (or Sneaking in) a Specific Figure in Voir Dire
20. Asking About Caps
21. Juror Demographics Affecting Damages

Disc 4 [69:27]

1. Chapter 4 (continued). Personality Traits
2. Religion Matters
3. Inadvertence
4. Leaders
5. Child Witnesses
6. Paid Experts
7. Multiple Survivors
8. Harms Consultants
9. Harms and Losses List
10. Final Thoughts
11. Chapter 5. Opening Statement
12. Introduction
13. Your Standing with the Jury
14. Structure
15. The Template
16. The Template
17. Opening. Part I: Primary Rule(s)

Disc 5 [62:21]

1. Chapter 5 (continued). Opening. Part II. Story of What the Defendant Did
2. Opening. Part III. Who We are Suing and Why
3. Opening. Part IV. Undermine

Disc 6 [67:48]

1. Chapter 5 (continued). Opening. Part V. Causation and Damages
2. Opening. Part VI: "Before"
3. Damages-Only Case
4. Loss of Personal Image
5. Beware the Unknown: What Jurors Don’t Know Can Clobber You
6. Keep Jurors Listening
7. Fear of Not Understanding
8. Motivations
9. Loss of Consortium
10. E-nun-ci-ate
11. Stop the Bullet Points
12. Dress Approachably
13. Decorate Yourself Modestly and Moderately

Disc 7 [68:57]

1. Chapter 5 (continued). Length of Opening
2. Eye Contact
3. Movement
4. Rehearse
5. Lighting
6. Chapter 6. Direct Examination
7. Mud and Gold (Less Mud = More Gold)
8. Controlling Your Witness on Direct ("What happened next?")
9. Short Questions
10. Don't Make Your Client a Whiner
11. How Does that Make You Feel?
12. Spouse
13. Before and After Witnesses
14. How Many?
15. Stories
16. Hollow Advocacy
17. Witnesses as Sources of Worthwhileness
18. Sequence of Witnesses: Damages Witnesses
19. Children
20. Grief and Pain Counselors
21. Minimum Life-Care Plans (and Equivalents)
22. Using Liability Witnesses for Damages
23. Day-in-the-Life Videos
24. Should Your Client Be in Trial?
25. Client In and Out of Trial
26. The Best and Cheapest Experts: High School Teachers
27. Paid Plaintiff's Experts
28. How to Use Experts

Disc 8 [53:18]

1. Chapter 7. Cross-Examination
2. Rules for Analysis
3. Hitchhiking: Use Defense Liability Experts for Damages
4. Undermining Defense Life-Expectancy Estimates
5. Undermining Accusations of Malingering and Exaggeration of Symptoms
6. "Litigation Syndrome" and Other Bogusaria
7. Control
8. Chapter 8. Closing
9. Overview
10. When to Write It
11. Make Jurors Listen
12. Teaching Your Favorable Jurors How to Win (Arming Them)
13. Keep on KISSING!
14. Why Are You Saying That?
15. Help Jurors Respond to the Folks at Home
16. Essentials for Closing
17. Minimum Life-Care Plan in Closing

Disc 9 [56:41]

1. Chapter 8 (continued). Massaging the Jury Instructions and Questions
2. Language
3. Intangibles Argument: Ratio to Tangible Losses
4. Holistic Damages
5. SCALES: Calculating the Intangible Losses
6. Admit Some Fault
7. Comparative Fault: Double Dipping
8. Proportions: The Damages Circle
9. How Do You Decide on Appropriate Amounts?
10. Jurors' Weekends and Other Treasures
11. The First Thing You Think
12. Two Futures
13. Safety
14. Judo Law and "The Gift of Malingering"
15. Vague Language
16. People Care v. Money Care
17. Closing: Quickies
18. Chapter 9. Public Respect and Trust: Restore It and Deserve It
19. The Problem
20. The Foolproof Solution

Disc 10 [63:57]

1. Chapter 9 (continued). Does It Work?
2. The Specifics
3. A Potpourri of Good Works
4. Rejecting Cases
5. Organizations
6. Show the World
7. Epilogue
8. Appendix A. Jury Voir Dire
9. The Law
10. Rule #1
11. Open-Ended Questions
12. The All-Purpose Follow-Up Questions
13. Demographics: The Error
14. The Worst Role Model: The Defense
15. Poisoning the Jury
16. Inoculation: Anticipating Defense Poison Questions
17. Inoculate
18. Creating Inoculation Questions
19. Which Inoculation?

Disc 11 [68:57]

1. Appendix A (continued). "Why Is She Asking About That?"
2. Home
3. Get the Whole Answer
4. Interrupting
5. Rewording
6. Get Them Talking
7. Enjoyment v. Control
8. Voir Dire: To See Speaking
9. Conditioning
10. When the Judge Stops You
11. Identifying Leaders
12. Depth of Attitude/Opinion/Belief
13. The Last Six Questions
14. Challenging for Cause

Disc 12 [69:15]

1. Appendix A (continued). Pretrial Rehearsal
2. Judge Approved Questions; Judge-Conditioned Voir Dire
3. Appendix B. Story for Opening Statements
4. Storytelling
5. Appendix C. Sample Opening
6. Appendix D. Differential Diagnosis in Med Mal Opening
7. Appendix E. Sample First-Person Story for Closing
8. Acknowledgements for the Third Edition
9. A Final Word

Total running time: 13 hours, 8 minutes