Coverage Counsel Is In

Thanksgiving is the peak day for home cooking fires, seeing over 3x the daily average from the rest of the year. And the majority of those fires are caused by deep frying turkeys. 

This week, Bob discusses what happens with your homeowner’s insurance if your house is damaged in a turkey explosion.

You can follow along with the HO3 form Bob discusses here.

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In this week’s episode, Bob chats about how contracts principles are used to interpret insurance contracts. Learn how to spot ambiguities and build effective arguments for your interpretation.

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Everyone wants to know if they have a good judge. Meaning, "Is the judge inclined to see the case the way I see it?" Robert Sallander gives a timely, post-election discussion on the politicization of the judiciary and how advocates can effectively respond. 

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In this week's episode, Robert Sallander shares his strategies for jury selection- Or, as he puts it, "jury de-selection." 

Bob pulls from his recent experience presenting with the Santa Clara County Bar Association, where he got insight from several judges on when voir dire crosses the line into impermissible jury conditioning. He gives examples of questions that push the boundaries and discusses whether they're worth the risk.

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A request for a litigation budget strikes terror into any lawyer’s heart. So many questions. So many unknowns. Litigation is so uncertain. And no one has taught you to create a budget. What’s a lawyer to do?

In this episode of Coverage Counsel Is In, Robert Sallander explains that litigation budgets are a natural extension of the litigation plan and the plan and budget together provide many benefits for client and lawyer. He provides a simple, detailed approach for creating and updating litigation plans and budgets.

If you'd like Bob's templates for litigation budgeting, reach out to him on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected].

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Developing an accurate timeline of events is an essential tool in evaluating causation, demonstrating alternative causes of harm, and defeating the logical fallacy that harm was caused by a prior event (ad hoc ergo propter hoc). In this episode of Coverage Counsel Is In, Robert Sallander provides examples of how to defend against the ad hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

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In this episode of Coverage Counsel Is in, Robert Sallander discusses the importance of drafting jury instructions at the beginning of a case, and using them as a checklist for designing and implementing your litigation plan for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

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In this episode of Coverage Counsel Is In, Robert Sallander discusses effective use of evidentiary motions in limine, traps for the unwary, and tips for making MILs that win.

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In this episode of Coverage Counsel Is In, Robert Sallander discusses the impact of the Rules of Evidence on analyzing an insurer’s duty to defend. 

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Gary wants to offer himself as an expert witness. What should he know? Robert Sallander addresses fundamentals for expert witnesses in this episode of Coverage Counsel Is In.

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