With the uptick in $10 million-plus verdicts, Wilmer’s Bill Lee thinks lawyers should be focusing courts on consistently applying Daubert to challenges to expert damages testimony.
August 30, 2023 at 07:30 AM
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Editor/columnist
In yesterday’s column, Wilmer’s Bill Lee and trial consultant Jamie Laird identified what they see as the problem: There’s been a marked increase in the number of $10 million-plus damages awards against corporate defendants in the wake of the pandemic. There’s also been a spike in the total value of those awards—verdicts which many have dubbed “nuclear” but that Lee and Laird call “outsized.”
Regardless of what they’re called, what should lawyers do to address them?
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William Lee, of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Courtesy photo.
