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Product
Liability: Winning Strategies and Techniques
Richard J. Heafey
and
Don M. Kennedy
Looseleaf, 500 pages
2008, Law
Journal Press
Updated as needed. Your purchase price includes
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In this authoritative
guide, two experienced litigators share the strategies and techniques
they have developed for handling product liability cases. Product
Liability: Winning Strategies and Techniques draws on the
authors' nearly 60 years of combined experience to deliver practical
advice seasoned attorneys can use to put together a winning product
liability case. From the initial client interview through every
step in building the case, this book gives hundreds of valuable
ideas and tactics from the perspective of both plaintiff's and
defendant's counsel.
For example,
you'll discover interview techniques that put the client at ease,
help you communicate your professional qualifications, elicit
the information you need to evaluate the client's case, and generate
business while preserving ethical integrity; the kinds of discoverable
data a computer system's custodian may have control over; early
procedural choices that can have a serious impact on the outcome
of the trial; how to lay the foundations for strict product liability
in the plaintiff's trial briefs and instructions; and the six
common defenses in a failure-to-warn case.
About
the authors:
Richard J. Heafey is
a member of the law firm of Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, P.C.,
with offices in Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, California.
His practice covers all aspects of personal injury litigation,
with an emphasis on representing defendants in the areas of medical
malpractice, public entity liability, and product liability, including
drugs and medical devices. Mr. Heafey is an Adjunct Professor
of Product Liability at the University of San Francisco Law School
and of Legal Ethics at the University of Santa Clara Law School.
A former co-chairman of the ABA Subcommittee of Attorney-Client
Privilege and Work Product, he has written and lectured widely
on product liability.
Don M. Kennedy is a partner in the firm of Goodwin,
Procter & Hoar LLP with offices in Boston, Massachusetts,
Washington D.C. and Albany, New York. He concentrates on
the defense of product liability litigation and securities fraud
litigation, representing manufactures of Prescription pharmaceuticals,
medical devices, asbestos products, chemicals and industrial equipment.
A member of the Steering Committee of the Drug and Medical Device
Litigation Section of the Defense Research Institute, he has written
and lectured frequently on the subject of product liability defense
and risk prevention techniques.
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Related
books:
Drug and
Medical Device Product Liability Deskbook
Drug Injury:
Liability, Analysis, and Prevention
Medical Device Accidents
and Illustrative Cases
Product
Liability
Telemedicine
and E-Health Law
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1. Initial Client
Interview, Case Evaluation and Early Procedural Choices
2. For the Plaintiff:
The Heart of a Products Liability Case—Strict Liability
3. Duty to Warn:
Plaintiff's Response
4. Design Defect:
Plaintiff's Perspective
5. For the Defendant:
Defenses and Counterattacks
6. Discovery
7. Pretrial Use
of Experts
8. Scientific Evidence
in Toxic Tort, Drug, Biologic and Medical Device Cases
9. Streamlining
the Case
10. Special Considerations
in Cases Involving Prescription Drugs or Medical Devices
11. Spoliation
of Evidence: A Threat to Both Plaintiffs and Defendants
12. Proof of Damages:
Putting a Value on Injuries
13. Settling a
Products Case
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