Rules of the Road: A Plaintiff Lawyer’s Guide to Proving Liability

Rules of the Road does not simply cover motor vehicle cases as the name may suggest. Instead, it teaches a systematic litigation method for use in legal cases, including product liability, medical malpractice, insurance bad faith, employment, commercial, wrongful death, trucking, premises liability, nursing home, environmental, and securities litigation, as well as many other areas of law. In the second edition, the authors significantly revised this groundbreaking work. In addition to revisions throughout the book clarifying concepts in the first edition, Friedman and Malone added six new chapters and three appendices. They cover the differences between rules and principles, how to troubleshoot your rules, and how to fit Rules of the Road techniques into your case themes. They discuss how to use rules earlier in your case with motions in limine and during voir dire. They also include samples of rules from a variety of cases, such as medical malpractice, product liability, insurance claims practice cases, and many more. In addition to their own experiences of trying cases with the Rules of the Road technique, the authors include contributions from nationally prominent trial lawyers, and they teach you how to use these tools to win your own trials.