Sentences with phrase «verdicts than any trial»

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It took jurors less than 90 minutes to reach a verdict in the eight - week corruption trial of ex-NYC Councilman Dan Halloran that was marked by delays, a mistrial for a co-defendant — state Sen. Malcolm Smith — and several juror dismissals for personal reasons.

The verdict Friday came more than two years after his first 2015 trial resulted in a 12 - year prison sentence.

More than 500 separate verdicts were returned during the course of the trial, and the trial included jury and non-jury claims.

12Judicial deference to jury verdicts may have been stronger in 18thcentury America than in England, and judges» power to order new trials for excessive damages more contested.

Mr. Lyons has more than 30 years of jury trial experience and has litigated hundreds of cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States, including successfully trying more than 40 cases to verdict.

Using the differential between the last settlement offer and the eventual verdict as a metric, the study found that Hispanic plaintiffs who relied on an interpreter at trial were 15 percent less likely than an English speaker to obtain a jury verdict that exceeded the last settlement offer.

I just came across this Bureau of Justice Statistics report, «Federal Tort Trials and Verdicts, 2002 - 03», released in August, showing that the number of tort trials concluded in U.S. district courts declined by nearly 80 percent from 1985 to 2003 — from 3,600 trials in 1985 to fewer than 800 trials inTrials and Verdicts, 2002 - 03», released in August, showing that the number of tort trials concluded in U.S. district courts declined by nearly 80 percent from 1985 to 2003 — from 3,600 trials in 1985 to fewer than 800 trials intrials concluded in U.S. district courts declined by nearly 80 percent from 1985 to 2003 — from 3,600 trials in 1985 to fewer than 800 trials intrials in 1985 to fewer than 800 trials intrials in 2003.

Legendary trial lawyer Brosnahan has argued more than 140 cases to verdict over more than 50 years.

Using more than 400 volunteers selected randomly from the electoral roll, the study replicated a genuine trial environment in order to assess how attitudes, backgrounds and perceptions can impact on verdicts.

After a seven - day trial in which eight physicians testified, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants after deliberating for less than an hour.

Kathy is a trial lawyer primarily, and while she is more than capable of negotiating a settlement, she always treats every case as if it will go to trial, because she is very comfortable in the courtroom, as her long history of successful verdicts and settlements proves.

He has substantial trial experience, having tried more than 25 matters to verdict, final judgment, or final arbitration decision.

As you can see, assuming we won a $ 70,000.00 jury verdict, our client would have recovered less than $ 5,000.00 more by going to trial (not taking into account paying back medical bills and liens).

The jury took more than four hours to reach a verdict after a two - day trial.

After a two - week trial and less than an hour of deliberations, the jury returned a complete defense verdict for our client, finding no conspiracy.

Often, when a verdict is rendered in lieu of a settlement, the losing party will have to pay out considerably more money than in a settlement — because trials are expensive, and costs for putting on the trial, paying for the judge, the court reporter, the jury members» per diem, the bailiff and others, can mean even more financial pain.

Combined, the firm's faithful attorneys have more than four decades of professional experience in the field of personal injury law, including vast amounts of trial experience and millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements.

Membership in Trial Masters ™ is reserved for the elite few lawyers who have tried more than 35 civil [or criminal as appropriate in your case] trials to verdict.

Michael Orcutt is an experienced commercial litigator with a particular emphasis on real estate, construction, and insurance matters, who has successfully tried more than one dozen jury and bench trials to verdict for his clients.

One example mentioned in Texas Lawyer explained the new rule as follows: If a defendant offers a settlement of $ 100,000, but the plaintiff refuses and goes to trial only to win a jury verdict of $ 80,000, then the defendant could collect costs and attorney's fees, but not more than $ 80,000.

He has tried more than 50 jury trials to verdict including cases in the area of Title VII, ADEA, Section 1983, police practices and procedure, commercial and residential construction defect cases, first party property, first party automobile, premises liability, products liability, trucking and automobile bodily injury lawsuits.

Consequently, as the trial court correctly recognized, the hospital could not «receive more than 1/3 of the verdict, judgment, award, settlement or compromise.»

He has personally tried to verdict more than 35 asbestos cases in 20 different states, winning defense verdicts in 31 out of 35 trials.

Authors Theodore Eisenberg and Michael Heise of Cornell University Law School conclude that two findings dominate: first, appeals courts are more likely to disrupt jury verdicts than bench decisions, and second, trial defendants fare better than plaintiffs on appeal.

Trying more cases to verdict than virtually any other law firm in the state, Gomez Trial Attorneys is quite simply, a firm comprised of real trial lawTrial Attorneys is quite simply, a firm comprised of real trial lawtrial lawyers.

- Lead trial and appellate counsel in obtaining and upholding complete defense jury verdict against claim for more than $ 90 million in oil and gas farmout contract damages.

Norm Pattis is veteran of more than 100 successful jury trials, many resulting in acquittals for people charged with serious crimes, multi million dollar civil rights and discrimination verdicts, and successful criminal appeals.

Following the jury's verdict, Justice Ramsay awarded the plaintiff costs on a substantial indemnity basis (a higher rate than usual) from the date of his offer to settle until the trial, along with costs on a partial indemnity basis (the usual rate) up until the offer, for a total of $ 140,000 plus HST.

As a practicing trial attorney, Martin has received more than 18 verdicts in excess of $ 1 million, including four verdicts in excess of $ 20 million.

There are three ways by which a Crown Attorney may terminate a prosecution other than by proceeding to verdict at trial:

His trial results include a jury verdict of more than $ 4.1 million in favor of a the family of a 42 - year - old mother of three who was killed in an automobile collision.

He has litigated to verdict more than 30 civil and criminal cases and has decades of litigation experience in civil and criminal jury and non-jury trials.

Mr. Stack has over 34 years experience as a lawyer and has conducted trials to verdict in more than 40 cases.

Glaspy & Glaspy attorneys have served as national, regional and trial counsel for numerous clients and have tried over 50 asbestos cases to verdict in more than 20 states.

1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?

He is an experienced trial lawyer who has tried more than 1oo civil jury trials to verdict.

Their more than 100 years of trial experience, more than 6,000 cases handled, track record of success in dealings with insurance companies and millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for our many clients are major reasons why you should choose our law firm to represent your interests.

Obtained jury verdict after two - week trial in Indiana state court in favor of an engineering firm subject to claims of professional negligence, fraud, and breach of contract seeking more than $ 2 million in compensatory damages as well as punitive damages.

On remand, John Spesia, Kent Slater and Jacob Gancarczyk handled the second trial, resulting in a favorable jury verdict and a record - breaking award of more than $ 4.1 million in damages.

Served as lead counsel for the defendant and achieved a defense verdict on behalf of a debtor bank holding company following an advisory jury trial involving a claim by the FDIC for more than US$ 500 million.

37 It cited Wikipedia itself as to how it is «openly editable,» as well as a number of federal court decisions «troubled by Wikipedia's lack of reliability» and ultimately concluded the government could not show there was «no reasonable possibility» that the jury's verdict was not impacted by the internet research.38 At least one federal court has followed Lawson to set aside another jury verdict based on a juror's research on the IRS website, which, although equally beyond the scope of the evidence at trial, is undoubtedly more reliable than a website like Wikipedia.39

Lead trial counsel in the first medical products class action / common issues trial tried to verdict in Canada (146 trial days), successfully defending one of the world's leading manufacturers of life - saving cardiac devices in a national class action claiming more than a billion dollars in damages (awarded 2013 Canadian Product Liability Impact Case of the Year by LMG Life Sciences)

I suppose there could be valid reasons why 4 out of every 5 jury verdicts go in favor of the doctor or hospital — maybe the strongest cases are all being settled before trial, leaving only the weakest cases behind — but it's hard to say that with a straight face when those figures mean that malpractice defendants have better odds winning in a courtroom than the odds a casino has winning its own games.

Ramón A. Abadin is an active trial lawyer who has tried more than 30 cases to verdict.

Jury nullification in the broader sense can cause cases to be thrown out by a judge or on appeal for reasons # 4 or # 5, but most of the time, jury nullification will not cause a verdict to be thrown out by a judge or on appeal (even if statements from jurors after the trial make it clear that jury nullification in the broader sense actually took place), if a jury that weighed the evidence and evaluated the credibility of the witnesses differently than the actual jury did could have reached the same verdict.

To preclude a civil litigant from relitigating an issue previously found against him in a criminal prosecution is less severe than to preclude him from relitigating such an issue in successive civil trials, for there are rigorous safeguards against unjust conviction, including the requirements of proof beyond a reasonable doubt and of a unanimous verdict, the right to counsel, and a record paid for by the state on appeal.

And the jury gave the usual verdict... [9]... While jury trials in civil cases seem to exist in Ontario solely to keep damages awards low in the interest of insurance companies, rather than to facilitate injured parties being judged by their peers, the fact is that the jury system is still the law of the land....

Represented defendants in a contract dispute in which plaintiff chose to settle rather than hear jury publish its verdict after five day jury trial.

Conducted a jury trial for the defence and received a jury verdict less than the defendant's offer to settle thereby receiving a costs award in favour of the defence.