CASE STUDIES
In personal injury litigation, the hardest injuries to prove are often the ones jurors can not see. A client may suffer daily neck pain, headaches, dizziness, instability, and loss of function, yet traditional imaging can leave the defense arguing that nothing is objectively wrong. For attorney Leila Kilgore of Kilgore & Smith, that gap between…
In trucking litigation, the defense wants complexity. They want jurors buried in driver logs, black box data, company policies, maintenance records, federal regulations, broker agreements, and expert testimony. The more technical the case feels, the easier it becomes for the defense to create doubt. I do the opposite. I use visuals to make the truth…
When a violent crash leaves multiple passengers ejected from a vehicle, determining exactly how and why the collision occurred becomes critical. In this case, attorney Todd Schafer of Schafer & Schafer LLP represented passengers who suffered serious injuries in a devastating rollover collision involving a Jeep Wrangler and a Scion. According to evidence presented in…
The stairway looked ordinary. But a closer examination revealed a series of construction failures that turned a routine descent into a life-altering fall. In a warehouse injury case, Focus Graphics produced several visuals, including brain injury summaries, a pre and post-incident symptoms chart, and an animation that reconstructed the incident in detail. The animation showed…
On what should have been an ordinary walk through an apartment courtyard, a visitor stepped onto a concrete path beneath a canopy of trees. The shade made the walkway appear harmless. But beneath it, algae had been allowed to grow across the concrete, creating a slick, concealed hazard. In an instant, the plaintiff’s feet went…
In a contentious Arizona civil rights trial, Chicago attorney Tom Kayes faced a case in which the physical evidence told a different story than the one advanced by law enforcement. Kayes, of Loevy + Loevy, has built a career taking on difficult civil rights cases, including matters involving police brutality, wrongful convictions, sexual harassment, and…
Complex cases are difficult enough to litigate. Explaining them clearly to a jury is often the bigger challenge. That was especially true in a wrongful death case arising from a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a national chain hardware store located in Portland, OR. Handled by trial attorney Tom D’Amore, the case involved…
Four-wheeling is an exciting and fun activity, allowing people to see backcountry landscapes they otherwise might not reach. When people buy these machines, it would be expected that they include all the safety features necessary to prevent injury. Unfortunately, this was not the case for Doug Winters’ client. The side-by-side Utility Terrain Vehicle (UTV) he…
Few cases are more devastating than those involving the loss of a child. For trial attorney Tom Dickerson, one of the most heartbreaking cases of his career involved a family whose lives were forever changed when a commercial semi-truck slammed into the back of their vehicle. The family had come to a stop on a…
Ten years after Mansur Ball-Bey was shot in the back by St. Louis police, the central question in the courtroom was not abstract. It was physical. The only witness for the victim was dead, all the other witnesses were cops, and there were many unanswered questions. Where was Ball-Bey when the bullet struck him? Where…
Children playing on a swing set should be having a great time, laughing, seeing who can go the highest, and just enjoying the exhilaration of “flying” through the air. One 9-year old young girl was doing just that when the support beam above her failed, cracking in half and collapsing on her head. The broken…
A trash hauler found that his pull-out bar for removing the trash from his trailer was bent when he was at a recycling and transfer facility. Trying to be helpful, the excavator operator agreed to use his bucket to straighten it out. He neglected to take the trash hauler’s safety into consideration, doing this maneuver…