"I think this is coming to a place near you," warns Tom Dickerson, trial attorney leading the fight against sweeping tort reform in Kansas. A bill would prohibit plaintiff lawyers from requesting any dollar amount for non-economic damages. With hosts Alicia Campbell and Nick Schweitzer, Tom describes his effort to fight it. And Nick describes his research that counters the argument of the bill’s supporters: “Anchoring isn't really a big deal, and it doesn't really happen, and jurors aren't just blindly doing this – but when you take it away, you have worse outcomes.” Because anti-anchoring could come “to a place near you,” Tom urges all lawyers to be ready to fight. “First and foremost, everybody needs to get involved in their trial lawyers organization.”

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"There's nothing nuclear about a verdict that's predictable." Sean Claggett, trial lawyer and co-author of “Jury Ball,” the groundbreaking book on big data, has made it his mission to help plaintiffs’ lawyers predict verdicts. In this episode, he visits hosts Alicia Campbell and Nick Schweitzer just days before picking a jury in Provo, Utah – a city where jurors don’t give big verdicts, according to conventional wisdom. Sean is unbowed: “Provided the right facts and the right story, I think all human beings are willing to return a big verdict.” Tune in for his case breakdown.

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From an individual’s spinal injury to an entire town’s polluted landscape, Focus Graphics designs demonstratives that pop – and persuade. CEO Seton Claggett visits hosts Alicia Campbell and Nick Schweitzer to explain the value of visuals and the return on investment. “You can get a colorization of an MRI or something, get a couple of them, and be out of the door for less than a grand, and they are extremely impactful,” he says. Tune in as Seton walks through the Focus Graphics origin story, process, and successes.

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When Brian Aleinikoff represented a 16-year-old girl who was paralyzed after falling from a chairlift, he leveraged a big data report that made it clear: He had to reframe the case to focus on the true “bad actor” – not the chairlift operator but the “multi-gajillion-dollar corporation” itself. As he explains in this case breakdown with hosts Alicia Campbell and Nick Schweitzer, skiers who enjoy expensive resorts don’t want to believe that a lift operator isn’t paying attention. “They want to believe that these lift operators are trained appropriately, but sometimes they're not. And that's what we really had to focus in on and convince the jury of.” The jury was convinced, awarding $21.5 million against the resort.

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He’s known as the “data beater.” He’s secured $91 million for a convenience store robbery victim and $42 million for a young woman who was “betrayed” by Child Protective Services. He’s Eric Fong, and he stops by “The Fred Files” to reveal how he uses data to beat the defense. With hosts Alicia Campbell, Nick Schweitzer, and Kevin Doran, Eric shares his approach to trial preparation, including how he identifies case weaknesses before trial through data research.

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Imagine you’ve got a big case and you want a summary of every deposition. “The first temptation might be, ‘Well, I'll just throw my depo into an AI, and I'll have it summarize it.’ But if you've ever tried that, it would choke on the depo.” That’s how John Campbell describes the problem. His expertise comes from pioneering the use of big data in litigation and writing JuryBall, the groundbreaking book about big data, with his wife, “The Fred Files” co-host Alicia Campbell. His solution? A deposition summarization tool called Res Ipsa AI, which he developed with software engineer Kevin Doran, another member of “The Fred Files” team. John and Kevin join Alicia and empirical legal scholar Nick Schweitzer to give a behind-the-scenes look at this tool that transforms 100-page depositions into 10-page interactive summaries with hyperlinks to original testimony. “What we started thinking about was, what if we could build a tool that’s not a Swiss army knife; it doesn't do a thousand things?” John explains. Their tool does one thing: summarize depositions, quickly and accurately.

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In their third installment of a series about Fred, trial scientist Alicia Campbell brings back COO Nick Schweitzer and CTO Kevin Doran for insights about how to maximize this platform. Learn why early case evaluation prevents costly mistakes, how Fred guides discovery strategy and expert selection, and why bulk pricing makes data-driven decisions accessible for firms of all sizes. Alicia shares her bold vision of attaching Fred reports to motions to dismiss, explaining: "We have an ability to know now, so we shouldn't be guessing."

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