Description
Description
Noneconomic damages are often the heart of a plaintiff’s case, but they can be difficult to explain in a way that feels both emotionally true and logically grounded. In this program, Daniel Kramer will teach a practical closing argument framework for organizing noneconomic harm so jurors can understand it, discuss it, and translate it into a meaningful verdict. The program will focus on how to move beyond general phrases like “pain and suffering” and present human loss through clear categories, chapters, and time-based reasoning.
Attorneys will learn the “Chapter Method” for breaking down past and future harm in closing arguments. The program will show how to identify the core areas of noneconomic loss, organize past harm into separate damages chapters, and present future harms in a way that accounts for the hours, days, months, and years the plaintiff must still live with the consequences of the injury. This method gives jurors a structure for evaluating losses such as physical pain, mental suffering, inconvenience, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress, impairment, and the daily impact of permanent injury.
By the end of the program, attendees will have a repeatable framework they can adapt to injury cases in any jurisdiction. Lawyers will learn how to make noneconomic damages more concrete without making them feel mechanical, how to connect the evidence to a damages number, and how to give jurors a roadmap for returning a full and fair verdict for both past and future human harm.
Dan Kramer is the founder of Kramer Trial Lawyers in Los Angeles. He tries cases throughout California and has secured numerous seven- and eight-figure verdicts on behalf of his clients. In the last four years alone, more than ten of his verdicts have been recognized among the top verdicts in the state of California. He is highly involved in the trial lawyer community, holding leadership positions in organizations such as CAALA, CAOC, LA-ABOTA, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Los Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Charities, and the Southwestern Alumni Association.
This On Demand Program is a pre-order. It will be available for streaming in your account on or before 8/14/26.
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On Demand Program: TBD
Original Air Date: 07/30/2026
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