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Back when we last chatted with Bob Tyson, the strategic managing partner of civil litigation and insurance defense firm Tyson & Mendes, he had just wrapped up the inaugural edition of the Nuclear Verdicts Defense Institute. That workshop for 18 defense lawyers and in-house counsel in the insurance industry drew on defense techniques outlined in Tyson’s book about fending off eight-digit jury awards.