Brain and Spinal Cord Lawyers

In Tips, Tricks, & Techniques for Defending Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Cases, ExecSense examines all of the key practical and tactical issues surrounding the defense of complex brain and spinal injury cases – including how to cross-examine the plaintiff’s medical and economic experts, how to deliver a compelling opening statement, and how to develop an overall winning defense strategy – that personal injury lawyers need to know about to more effectively represent their clients in these high-stakes legal disputes. Take the 60 minutes to view this webinar (on your computer, mobile phone, iPod or printed out) to understand how you can immediately implement these tips and strategies to more effectively defend your clients in complex brain and spinal cord injury.

The webinar is led by an expert on defending brain and spinal cord injury cases and focuses on:

? Everything you need to know in 60 minutes to successfully reduce overall awards against your clients in brain and spinal cord injury cases or even eliminate awards altogether

? Easy-to-implement tips, tricks, and techniques for personal injury lawyers that will immediately help you more effectively defend complex brain and spinal cord injury cases, including how to develop an overall defense strategy, how to select defense witnesses, how to cross-examine the plaintiff’s medical experts, neuropsychologist, how to use voir dire to select the right jury, how to deliver a compelling opening statement, and other trial strategies

? The 10 questions most asked by personal injury lawyers about how to successfully implement these tips and strategies to reduce overall awards against their client in brain and spinal injury cases or even eliminate awards altogether

? Case studies of other personal injury lawyers who have had success defending brain and spinal injury cases, and important lessons learned about the practical and tactical decisions which led to their success

Tips, Tricks, & Techniques for Defending Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Cases – What Personal Injury Lawyers Need to Know (ExecSense Webinars)

It has long been suspected that repetitive head injury can have consequences well into the future. Studies that have focused on athletes, in particular, have found correlation between repetitive head injury and brain disease occurring years later, long after their athletic careers are over.

Head injury is a term used to describe any trauma to the head, particularly to the brain. Head injuries may be caused by either penetrating or blunt trauma. Penetrating injuries, as the term implies, result when an object penetrates the skull. Bullets, knives and other sharp objects may cause this type of head injury. Blunt trauma occurs from a direct blow to the head or as a result of a decelerating force.

The symptoms of head injury vary, ranging from mild and transient effects to immediate death. Mild concussion often results from a fall or blunt trauma. Symptoms of a concussion may include a brief loss of conscience, nausea and vomiting, and blurred vision. Occasionally, concussions cause long term effects such as insomnia, difficulty with concentration or memory and irritability. Several studies have focused on post-concussion syndrome in athletes.

Now there is new evidence published in the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology linking repetitive head injury with the development of Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). ALS is a progressive, usually fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons. People who have ALS experience progressive weakening of their muscles, including muscles of the chest wall which eventually impedes breathing and causes death from asphyxiation.

The study focused on ten deceased former athletes, all of whom had sustained multiple concussions. Three of the athletes had been diagnosed with ALS. After studying the brains and spinal cords of the subjects, it was found that the three athletes who had ALS had proteins associated with ALS in both their spinal cords and brains. Previous studies have found that people who have never suffered a concussion do not have this protein in either their brain or spinal cord. In addition, this protein is not present in the spinal cords of people with ALS. The fact that the deceased athletes had this protein in both structures (brain and spinal cord) led researchers to conclude that the athletes had a condition similar to ALS, and that repetitive head injury was the likely cause of this condition.

The study was a small one, but the researchers involved in the study felt that the evidence was highly suggestive of a link between repetitive head injury and an ALS-like disease. More evidence is needed to strengthen the data.

Other studies have shown links between ALS and being a soccer player, football player or a military veteran, prompting interest in finding the reason why ALS occurs more frequently in these groups. This current study strengthens the idea that ALS, or an ALS-like condition, may be the result of head injury that is repetitive.

Originally published here.

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