I'm going to get more damages in the Guerra case than they did in the Ernst case. I want Merck to see that Ernst was a conservative verdict. I'm going to spank them hard. |
It will at least preclude lawyers like me from saying they've resolved to never settle any, |
It's about time, |
It's gonna be 4:30 on a Friday. That gives the wet cement of what they've listened to time to dry. |
Merck is still going to try and fight the next several cases and try to pull the next couple of wins out of a hat, so that Merck can say this was a bizarre coincidence, |
Merck should come to the table and accept responsibility. |
Merck's behavior, in my mind, was tantamount to negligent homicide. They were going to kill people and they knew it. |
My message to Merck is that I'm just warming up. |
My strategy is, right is right, and wrong is wrong. If you know your drug may kill people, you owe the duty to warn them. |
On a life-or-death drug, the marketing should be as transparent as glass. But it was as murky as seawater. |
Our studies have indicated this thing plays well right across the line. Everybody needs to trust in the medical system. The only way we can trust in it is if companies are telling the truth. |
Seeger needs to give the closing of his life. I would have tried it differently. I would have made marketing the center issue of the case, and Chris chose to make causation the center issue. By closing arguments, our case was over. This case can go either way. |
The clock is great! We will have 40 hours to present our evidence. The bad guys have 35. We will speak in clear, simple sentences. |
The jury saw the truth in black and white. |
The lawyers have to try to give the jurors on their side the ammunition to sway the other jurors during deliberations. That's the key. |