Lake County Docket: Speaking To Jurors A $148 million verdict begs the question: Why that number, and how does one succeed at speaking to jurors?

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (November 20, 2018) – Tierney Darden was with her mom and sister at O’Hare on an unusually stormy day in the summer of 2015. The threesome stood at a covered bus shelter at the airport, seeking protection from the elements. In this maelstrom, the shelter came unmoored—its rusted brackets and missing securing bolts of no utility—and it tipped over. The shelter injured several people, but it forever changed Tierney, whose spinal cord was severed.

When attorney Pat Salvi, whose firm represented Tierney, describes the injury, he takes his arm and illustrates in a motion what occurred to her spinal cord, transforming a somewhat abstract description of the injury into something more visceral.

Please click here to read the full article by Steve Rice of the Lake County Docket.