PSR Playbook Library

In this LawTalk, PSR attorney Wyatt Vespermann discusses the rules of evidence in California governing hearsay evidence in minor sexual assault cases and how to devise a trial strategy that puts you in the best position to prove your case.

In this LawTalk, PSR attorneys Lyssa Roberts and Melody Saadian discuss California’s Proposition 51, which changed California’s rules about who must pay for non-economic damages, covering the applicable rules as well as the exceptions, including the common carrier exception.

The May 2022 California Court of Appeal case, Kline v. Zimmer, Inc., stands for the general proposition that a defendant may have an expert testify as to possible alternative causes of an injury to rebut a plaintiff’s expert, even if those alternative possible causes do not rise to a reasonable degree of medical certainty....

In this continuing series on jury selection techniques, PSR partner Rahul Ravipudi delves into cause challenges beginning with how to establish cause challenges during jury selection based on information you have learned from asking jurors open-ended questions.

In this next episode from the series on jury selection techniques, PSR partner Rahul Ravipudi discusses how to effectively use mini opening statements during jury selection.