Litigation Intelligence
Decision intelligence for high-stakes litigation — causation, damages, expert witness.
I · The Question
“Which narrative survives contact with the jury?”
II · The Uncomfortable Truth
Winning isn’t determined by who is right. It’s determined by which narrative survives the decision system.
Juries do not adjudicate truth. They adjudicate the most coherent story that fits the evidence they are willing to retain. The case with the cleanest causal chain wins more often than the case with the strongest underlying facts.
III · The Hidden Equation
Verdicts emerge from a decision system, not a moral system.
Three variables, in roughly this order, determine outcome — and two of them have almost nothing to do with the underlying medicine.
Variable 01
Narrative Coherence
Whether the story holds together under contradiction, fatigue, and cross-examination.
Variable 02
Causation Architecture
How tightly the injury can be tied to a single, defensible mechanism.
Variable 03
Credibility Decay
How quickly the opposing expert’s authority erodes once jurors stop trusting one claim.
IV · Find the 51™
The 51 is usually the variable the other side discounted.
A pre-existing condition the plaintiff treats as background. A timeline gap the defense never explained. The single visual that re-anchors the jury after closing. Find that variable early, and the case stops being symmetric.
V · The Decision
What is provided.
Causation Review
Independent reconstruction of the causal chain — what the record actually supports, and where the chain is structurally weak.
Damages Architecture
Forward-loaded life-care and future-medical reasoning that withstands deposition and Daubert challenge.
Expert Witness — Spine
Harvard-trained, board-certified spine surgeon testimony. Plaintiff and defense. Federal and state. Trial and deposition.
Narrative Stress-Test
Pre-trial pressure on both narratives so weaknesses surface in the conference room — not the courtroom.
Counter-Expert Analysis
Structural critique of opposing reports: where the logic bends, where the citations don’t support the claim.
Trial Visualization Strategy
Which exhibit, in which order, anchors a juror who has stopped listening. The 51 lives here more often than people admit.
VI · Begin the engagement