David Ball Updates his Book on Damages
I was bopping around Amazon, looking for new trial books and found that David Ball has updated his book on damages. In fact, it is the essential update. You can get it here: David Ball on Damages: The Essential Update, A Plaintiff's Attorney's Guide for Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases.
David has updated it to deal with the poisoned atmosphere after all of the corporate welfare legislation that we have mistakenly allowed to be called ‘tort reform’. One of the things that I really like about this book is that it shows lawyers ways to give their favorable jurors arguments to use and win discussions with non-favorable jurors in the jury room.
This squares with neuro-linguistic programming principles that when people internalize arguments, they believe them much more than when they are just told them. In a simpler era, that would be ‘Show. Don’t tell.” It’s a great update to an already great book. This is one of a handful of books that I read and reference so much that I buy two copies, one for the house and one for the office.
I just received my copy. It's excellent. I'm going to need another copy too. I scribbled notes to myself all over this one. It focuses on personal injury cases, but many of the principles will work in business and insurance disputes too.
I just wrote a blog on our site that has not posted yet when I saw the book came out today (I got an email). I bought it with some trepidation after looking at the table of contents because it seemed like the same as the first book. Then, I googled the book and found your post. Your review makes me feel much better about my purchase! Dave, I'll give you my thoughts after I read it.
Ron Miller
www.millerandzois.com
