Elawvate: The Trial Lawyer Podcast

Episode Summary Roger Dodd has spent most of his life trying cases in venues around the United States.  From capital murder trials to complex personal injury cases, Roger has done it all.  Roger has also devoted much of his career to speaking and teaching trial skills.  His multi-day seminar in cross examination has become so popular that when a date is announced the seats fill immediately.  Roger...

Perhaps no lawyer in America conducts more civil jury trials than Keith Mitnik, the Senior Trial Attorney at America’s largest personal injury law firm, Morgan and Morgan.  Keith tries more jury trials in a month than most trial lawyers try in a year.  Keith’s focus on trying cases and his high volume of trial work allows him to test and improve his courtroom strategy and technique regularly.  Joi...

SHOW SUMMARY: Have you ever sought a more efficient way to complete discovery?  Well, attorney Pratik Shah did and then created a technological solution to streamline and improve the discovery process.  Join Rahul (https://www.psbr.law/ravipudi.html) and Ben (https://gideonasen.com/our-team/benjamin-gideon/) for their discussion with Pratik about his game-changing discovery technology and his obse...

Ben and Rahul break down the case and events leading up to Rahul's recent $8 million verdict.

Join us for a discussion with folks from the Expert Institute as part of our special sponsorship bonus track.  Learn about cutting edge services EI has developed to help trial lawyers track information about their own and opposing experts.

In this episode, Ben speaks with trial lawyer and trial consultant Phillip Miller about how he helps trial lawyers deconstruct and then build a winning case for trial.  Phillip starts by identifying landmines that will cause you to lose the case.  Each landmine must be made irrelevant, immaterial, or otherwise overcome so that it does not sink the case.  Phillip then talks about questions that eve...

Trial law has been in the blood of Omaha-based trial lawyers, Pat and Joe Cullan, since they were growing up.  They learned life lessons about how to be a trial lawyer from their father, legendary trial lawyer, Dan Cullan.  Like their father, Pat and Joe are also doctors, who use their combined expertise in law and medicine to level the playing field on behalf of their clients. Now, Pat and Joe ar...

Perhaps no jurisdiction has conducted more Zoom jury trials since the start of the pandemic than King County (Seattle), Washington.  In this episode, Ben and Rahul speak with King County Superior Court Judge, Matthew Williams, about lessons he has learned managing Zoom trials, including his experience conducting jury selection. trial, witness examination, cross examination, use of exhibits, and hi...

St. Louis, Missouri trial lawyers Craig and Toni Schlapprizzi learned what it means to be a trial lawyer from their successful trial lawyer father, Don Schlapprizzi.  Now, both Craig and Toni are prominent trial lawyers in their own right who have won many large verdicts, and recently, achieved a record-setting $37 million settlement in a product liability case.  Join Rahul (https://www.psbr.law/r...

Seattle-based trial lawyer, Felix (Gavi) Luna is not afraid to try hard cases.  Join  Ben (( Ben Gideon | Gideon Asen LLC) )  and Rahul (( Rahul Ravipudi (psblaw.com) for this episode as Gavi explains the strategies and techniques he has used to get extraordinary results in some of the toughest cases, including a case involving highway design  and a malpractice case involving failure to prevent a...

In this inspiring episode, Ben (www.gideonasen.com) talks about how many trial lawyers face personal challenges they must overcome to find happiness and success in their practices.  Ben reveals how his own journey to overcome anxiety helped to shape his character and approach as a trial lawyer.   ABOUT BEN GIDEON BEN’S PHILOSOPHY When clients come to us, they are looking for financial compensation...

We are kicking off Season 2 of the Elawvate podcast (www.elawvate.fm)  with a bang!  In our first episode, Ben ( Ben Gideon | Gideon Asen LLC) )  and Rahul (( Rahul Ravipudi (psblaw.com)  host four of the country’s most respected trial lawyers and trial consultants, to discuss their forthcoming book, Damages Evolving.  Those familiar with David Ball’s foundational work, Damages, will    learn how...

Access to Big Data has proven to be indispensable in making key decisions to maximize values of verdicts and settlements.  Join Join  Ben (( Ben Gideon | Gideon Asen LLC) )  and Rahul (( Rahul Ravipudi (psblaw.com) for our discussion with John Campbell, the leading national expert on Big Data for trial lawyers.  Through his company Empirical Jury (www.empiricaljury.com) John has already helped cou...

What is the key to Mark Mandell's success as a trial lawyer?  He questions all assumptions and has spent his entire career in search of answers.  And what he has uncovered along the way is required knowledge for anyone who wants to try cases for a living.  Join  Ben (( Ben Gideon | Gideon Asen LLC) )  and Rahul (( Rahul Ravipudi (psblaw.com)  for our probing discussion with Mark as he describes hi...

For his 20 plus year career as a trial lawyer, Nick Rowley has lived in life in the arena.  For most of his career, he has tried 10 jury trials each year.  He has tried cases in 33 separate states and has numerous seven and eight figure verdicts.  Nick discusses his journey to becoming a trial lawyer, his approach and philosophy of communicating with jurors and trying cases and how he balances his...

Join us for our conversation with preeminent trial lawyer, Khaldoun Baghdadi.  Khaldoun talks about how his Palestinian background has influenced his perspective and approach to the law. He talks about the principles that have enabled him and his firm to obtain many record setting verdicts in both individual plaintiff and mass tort trials.  Since 2009, Khaldoun has been named a Northern California...

With multiple recent 8-figure jury verdicts in difficult cases, Sean Claggett is truly on a roll. But nothing Sean has accomplished is an accident.  It is the culmination of his own personal journey to re-invent himself as a master trial lawyer and to pioneer the use of data-driven decision-making to maximize his results.  Join us for our conversation with Sean as we explore his uniquely successfu...

Nationally-recognized trial lawyer Patricia Kuendig joins us to describe the approach to cross examination she and her partner Roger Dodd teach to trial lawyers across the country.  Patricia explains the three rules of  successful cross examination.  She illustrates how the rules work in practice.  She discusses strategies for sequencing cross, recovering from problems, dealing with un-crossable w...

Join us for a conversation with top New Jersey trial lawyer, Edward Capozzi, author of the best-selling Trial Guides book, The Domino Theory.  Ed describes how his upbringing in a blue collar family and background as a front man for a rock band readied him for the world of trial law.  Ed talks about how he began trying the most difficult "no offer" cases and honed his approach and skills by trying...

Saira Pasha is an attorney who used to work for major hospital corporations handling the defense side of medical malpractice cases.  Now, she assists lawyers for patients and their families in medical malpractice cases.  We spend time with Saira discussing how to better understand the information that is available through the electronic medical record and audit trail kept by hospitals and other me...

Michael Cowen is a successful trial lawyer and host of the popular podcast, Trial Lawyer Nation.  He joins us to talk about the power he has gained from learning to overcome his own insecurities and to place his trust in juries to do what is right.  Michael talks about how working on his own mindset has produced better results in his trials and made him a happier person.  He goes on to talk about...

About Rahul Ravipudi Rahul Ravipudi is a partner at Panish Shea & Boyle LLP and has spent his legal career handling catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases involving commercial vehicles, pedestrians, industrial or construction accidents, utility negligence, dangerous conditions of public and private property as well as cases of sexual abuse and sexual assault. Mr. Ravipudi also represents con...

About Dan Ambrose Daniel Ambrose started out in Detroit, Michigan as a criminal defense lawyer. Dan has attended programs such as the National Criminal Defense College, Western Trial Advocacy Institute and Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer’s College, tried over 150 jury trials, and has studied trial advocacy for 20 years.  Dan is known for his exceptional skills advocating for his clients.  Through 20 y...

We begin by discussing Lloyd's unique journey to become a trial lawyer, which was shaped by his military education at the Virginia Military Institute and years prosecuting and defending case in the Army JAG Corps.  Lloyd explains how he learned the importance of meeting your audience where they are while defending enlisted soldiers before juries of officers.  One of the most important lessons he l...

We begin the episode discussing Paul's early career as a trial lawyer where he had to find ways to explain complex concepts, often involving technology, to ordinary jurors.  Paul describes how he learned to do this, particularly with argument by analogies that were accessible to jurors. We then move to discuss Paul's years as a Judge in the Northern District of California, where he presided over m...