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To kick-start the new year and decade, the team at Jury Analyst sat down with Brian Panish to answer some listener questions. Brian is one of the country’s leading trial attorneys, so we’re grateful for his time and hope you find his tips as interesting as we do.

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• He shares his insight into what it’s like as a lawyer to write books.
• How he approaches trials as a story or play to show people the truth that is emotionally engaging.
• The most important thing to provide jurors in the opening statement.
• Unique strategies he uses in jury selection to unearth as much information possible.
• The challenges of Tobacco litigation.

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• The experienced gained working for an insurance defense firm.
• His advice to young lawyers aspiring to open their own firm.
• The strategy he uses to uncover bias jurors during voir dire.
• The challenges of employment law and how to navigate them.
• Insights into wrongful death and personal injury.

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• Chris Dolan’s journey from leaving high school in the bottom fifth of his class to graduating Georgetown Law with high honors after the school rejected him TWICE!!
• His tongue lashing of a Georgetown Law professor who demeaned the value of plaintiff’s lawyers in society
• Tips on developing a healthy mindset for starting your own firm—Chris accomplished this goal with only $5K, 2 PCs, and a coaxial cable!
• How he utilized the mindset of ‘going all in’ with everything you set out to achieve in order to help craft new laws for patients’ rights, litigate the 1st wrongful death case against Uber by suing for product liability, and receiving multiple multi-million dollar judgments in a post 9/11 employment discrimination case
• Learn the importance of getting involved in trial organizations for younger lawyers

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• Why it’s important for plaintiff lawyers to be involved in justice associations.
• How attending the Gerry Spence college and learning the methods was a watershed moment in his life.
• How he developed the “Secret Sauce” from some of the greatest minds using different methods.
• How he got two of the top 100 verdicts in 2018.
• How to get a massive judgment in a comparative fault case.

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• An eye-opener that happened in 1999 that yielded a verdict of $4.9 billion dollars.
• Insights into his largest case verdict where a vicious beating by security personnel caused traumatic brain injury.
• His strategy of using mini-opening statements and why it’s important.
• How he uses polarizing as a tool in his cases.
• California fires and interesting facts we are learning.. 

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• The procedural history of back and forth he experienced with the Sandy Hook case against the gun industry.
• What it’s like to grow up in a family and in a law firm with three-generations of lawyers.
• How he got a 22.5 Million verdict on a retrial. 
• How he got involved in taking on the gun industry and the challenges he faced.
• The claims he filed under in order to keep the case in state court.

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• Sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sexual abuse cases.
• The changes in how people view sexual harassment cases.
• The effects of the Cavanaugh hearings have had on these types of cases.
• Why it’s important for young attorneys to get involved in associations.
• Advantages/disadvantages of being a woman lawyer.

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• How to use opening statements to come out of the blocks ahead.
• Aspects of how jurors make up their minds at the opening statement.
• How to nail the opening statement.
• Methods he uses to prepare his opening statement.
• The technology he uses in his opening statement.