Agenda / Content Covered

Session Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Eastern
Presenter: James W. Balmer

1. Allowed and Effective Questions
2. Order, Style of Questioning and Questioning Techniques
3. Addressing Questions of Pain and the Cause of the Injury
4. Translating Medical and Legal English Into Plain English
5. Controlling the Direction of the "Conversation"
6. Exploiting Questionable Methodologies and Conclusions
7. What to do When a Witness is Being Evasive or Defiant
8. Making and Responding to Objections
9. Prepping Your Doctor
10. When the Opposing Counsel is Bullying Your Witness
11. Effective Use of Evidence/Documents in Examination

Accreditation Details:

JAMES W. BALMER is a founding partner of Falsani, Balmer, Peterson & Balmer, where he has represented thousands of people in all kinds of litigation, including jury trials, workers' compensation trials and hearings, Social Security disability hearings, and appeals in those areas. He has handled wrongful death, car crash, slip-and-fall, worksite injuries, defective product claims, dog attack, liquor liability claims and other kinds of bodily injury matters; as well as insurance coverage disputes, defamation claims, probate and trust disputes. Mr. Balmer is admitted to practice before all Minnesota and Wisconsin courts, both state and federal, and has tried cases throughout both states. He has argued cases before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in St. Louis. Mr. Balmer has been selected as a Minnesota Super Lawyer annually beginning in 1998. He has been certified as a civil trial specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and by the Minnesota State Bar Association. Mr. Balmer has been honored as an advocate by the American Board of Trial Advocacy. He earned both his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota.