You may assume that mesothelioma and asbestos lung cancer are interchangeable terms. But while both are caused by asbestos exposure,...

Farmers who use paraquat are far more likely to develop Parkinson’s than those who never used it. A lawsuit is the best way to get...

Each year, thousands of Americans die as a result of exposure to asbestos, and those in certain industries—particularly Navy,...

Parkinson’s disease affects nearly 1 million people in the United States. Since its introduction in 1962, scientists have connected...

I was in the middle of my closing arguments in the Castillo-Dupont case. Although I spent the bulk of my 90 minutes going through and...

In 1997, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (now known simply as Public Justice) named me a national finalist for Trial Lawyer of the Year be

The results of our third and final appeal in Delaware came in shortly after the Florida Supreme Court reinstated the Castillo decision....

The day of oral arguments was surreal. We had been through so much already, from the trial, to the court of appeals, to getting the...

While we were in the briefing process at the Florida Supreme Court, my firm received a letter from Greg Gaebe that stated if we dropped...

We had one step one, and received a positive decision on our writ to present our case to the Supreme Court. We now had to fully brief and...

In the aftermath of the appellate decision, the Castillos and I had a limited period of time in which to decide whether we would try to...

During the appellate process at the Third District Court of Appeals in Florida, DuPont did two notable and important things. First, it...

The proceedings in the Scottish cases – we had started to vigorously pursue 29 cases on behalf of children in Scotland who were affected...

I asked Clem Glynn how he came to know about the jurors, especially that one nasty juror who wanted to sabotage everything, and who...

When a case like this comes to an end, some lawyers crash from the emotional and physical toll. Not me. For several weeks afterward, I...

The jury had awarded a $4 million decision for the plaintiff. When the clerk finished reading how the jury came up with this number and...

Sometime in the late morning the jury came back with a second question related to economic damages, which is usually a great sign for us....

As I mentioned in my last post, I’d noticed a conference between the DuPont and Pine Island Farms attorneys concerning how Judge Donner...

On the first full day of deliberations in the Castillo-DuPont case, as the lawyers were going through the evidence with the court, the...

Judge Donner had spent a considerable amount of time explaining the evidence in the Castillo-DuPont case to the jurors. She continued to...

On the morning of June 6, 1996, the jury was ushered into the courtroom just as it had been every other morning for the previous five...

The total damages we were pursuing in the Castillo-DuPont case were in the general range of $20 to $30 million. Based on our assessment,...

I was ready to close the case. Judge Donner instructed her clerk, Ray, to bring the jury back into the courtroom to commence closing...

In my last post, I mentioned something sneaky that the defense was doing: one of the lawyers had used blowups of testimony as exhibits –...

In my last post, I mentioned how the defense wanted the judge to declare a mistrial on the basis of the testimony of Sonya Sipes. The...

One of the last witnesses to testify in the Castillo-DuPont case was Dr. Brad Pollock, an associate professor and the director of the...

In my last post, I wrote about some of the dirty tricks the defense was employing during this trial, and how one of the defense lawyers...

The questionable tactics the defense engaged in from the outset of the Castillo-DuPont trial continued right through the very last...

In my previous few posts, I’ve been recounting the testimony, and my cross-examination, of expert witness Dr. Robert Brent, who said that...

In my last post, I spoke about the experienced expert witness, Dr. Robert Brent. It turned out that Dr. Robert Brent had known Dr. Robert...

While Dr. Robert Brent, an expert witness for DuPont in the Castillo-DuPont trial (whom I began to write about in my previous post),...

As I mentioned earlier, when we went to trial, my two key witnesses had never testified in court before. That’s an extremely risky...

The Defense was now about to present its case in the Castillo-DuPont trial. Just as I had carefully, methodically, and thoughtfully laid...

As Liz and I sat and listened to toxicology expert Dr. Vyvyan Howard, who after providing testimony on our behalf at the Castillo-DuPont...

Dr. Vyvyan Howard, a renowned expert on toxicology and pathology who had testified for us on the effects of certain fungicides on the...

The following morning, the day after his in-depth testimony on the many different ways an embryo or fetus can be impacted by...

In my previous posts, I presented the first phase of the testimony from Dr. Vyvyan Howard, a renowned toxicology and pathology expert,...

In these last few posts, I’ve been recounting the testimony of the toxicology and pathology expert Dr. Vyvyan Howard, in the...

In my previous two posts, I gave a picture of the testimony of the toxicology expert Dr. Vyvyan Howard, who was testifying as one of my...

I had placed on the stand at the Castillo-DuPont trial the renowned Dr. Vyvyan Howard, a doctor and researcher who specialized in...

I called Dr. Vyvyan Howard to the stand on May 22, three weeks into the Castillo-DuPont trial. By this point, the jury had heard a lot of...

I spent the next week or so of the Castillo-DuPont trial calling every expert witness in our arsenal to testify about the scientific...

On the plaintiff side, we often have to prove a lot in order to win. If we miss one point, we lose. It’s like building a house: if you...

In my last post, I recounted how I had been questioning the DuPont toxicology expert Dr. Judith C. Stadler, and how we had, little by...

Once the judge cleared my line of questioning, I began slowly and meticulously walking DuPont’s expert toxicologist Dr. Judith C. Stadler...

During my questioning of the DuPont expert Dr. Judith C. Sadler, which I began to recount in my previous post, I saw that my line of...

My primary objective with DuPont’s corporate representative Dr. Judith C. Stadler was to completely dismantle the bullshit five-gallon...

Since the beginning of this trial, DuPont had been disseminating propaganda about its product and the case itself. I was doing my best to...

With the exposure issue now firmly behind us, the next fight we had to endure in the Castillo-DuPont case was the battle of science....

In my last post I recounted that I’d begun reading the 65 admissions I’d received from codefendant Pine Island Farms, in the...