Just Verdicts

By: Brendan Lupetin
  • Summary

  • Your client’s been wronged, and they want justice. Just wait for the wrongdoer to accept responsibility? Yeah, right. You need answers to questions like “What really happened?” and “Why did it happen?”. And whatever bad thing happened, you want to ensure it doesn’t happen again. It takes the right strategies, tactics, and grit to get the just outcomes your clients deserve. Hosted by Pennsylvania medical malpractice attorney Brendan Lupetin, a founder of Lupetin and Unatin, Attorneys at Law in Pittsburgh, this podcast is dedicated to the pursuit of just verdicts for just cases. Each episode features in-depth interviews and discussions of cutting-edge trial strategies to equip you with the tools you need to conquer the courtroom. Interested in co-counseling, local counseling, or referring a catastrophic injury case? We’d love to work with you. Visit our attorney referral page at https://www.PAMedMal.com/Refer (PAMedMal.com/Refer.) We handle cases in Pennsylvania and across the United States. Produced and Powered by https://lawpods.com/ (LawPods)
    Copyright 2025 Brendan Lupetin
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Episodes
  • No Such Thing as a Good or Bad Juror, with Harry Plotkin
    Jan 9 2025
    Don’t ask prospective jurors if they hate lawsuits; you won’t learn anything about them. Don’t talk about damages early on; you’ll only rub them the wrong way. And don’t make rules like, “I never have ‘X’ on a jury”; you could waste a peremptory strike on a potentially great juror.Renowned jury consultant Harry Plotkin, of Your Next Jury, has seen plaintiffs’ lawyers make these mistakes and others through over two decades of mastering the art of jury selection. In this conversation with host Brendan Lupetin, Harry offers solutions and insights on everything from an effective opening to the pitfalls of choosing jurors based on factors like gender, age, ethnicity, or jobs.Harry and leading trial lawyer Dan Kramer are co-hosting a new podcast, “Picking Justice.” Tune in on Amazon Music, Apple, Audible, iHeartRadio, Pandora, PocketCasts, and Spotify.Learn More and Connect☑️ Harry Plotkin | LinkedIn | Instagram☑️ Your Next Jury ☑️ Brendan Lupetin | LinkedIn☑️ Lupetin & Unatin, LLC☑️ Connect: Facebook | LinkedIn | YouTube☑️ Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode PreviewHarry’s path to being a jury consultant began more than two decades ago with his background...
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Capitalizing on Defense Gifts to Secure $29M Verdict, with Clancy Boylan
    Dec 23 2024
    The gods gave Clancy Boylan and his team at Morgan & Morgan a few gifts in their case against a truck driver and his employer. Clancy’s client was riding his mountain bike across a road when the truck hit him, leaving him with catastrophic injuries.One gift was the defense’s tone-deaf examination of Clancy’s client. Another was Clancy catching a trooper’s inaccurate testimony about his client. Tune in as Clancy breaks down the case with host Brendan Lupetin. It went to trial after the insurance company offered $500,000. It ended with the jury’s gift of $29 million.Learn More and Connect☑️ Clancy Boylan | LinkedIn | Facebook | Email | Cell☑️ Morgan & Morgan | LinkedIn | Facebook | X | YouTube | Instagram☑️ Brendan Lupetin | LinkedIn☑️ Lupetin & Unatin, LLC☑️ Connect: Facebook | LinkedIn | YouTube☑️ Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode PreviewBackground of Heath Wilson v. Donald Beiler and JM Lapp Plumbing & Heating, LLC, in which Clancy won $29 million for his catastrophically injured client.Physics hasn’t changed since the apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head. Clancy’s accident reconstruction revealed the physics of the accident.Clancy has theories about why the insurance company offered $500,000, including the fact that the trial was held in a conservative Pennsylvania county.How Clancy came back from potentially damaging – and inaccurate – testimony that his client was cited for violating a Pennsylvania motor vehicle code.Clancy built the case around taking responsibility and emphasized...
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    50 mins
  • Inside $15M Verdict in Challenging Van Rollover Case, with Tom Bosworth and Ben Phelps
    Dec 9 2024
    Tom Bosworth and Ben Phelps, of Bosworth Law, took calculated risks in their case against a staffing company and the driver it hired, who was taking employees of a potato chip factory to work when his van rolled over in a downpour. Several workers were injured or killed.They did not, for example, call an expert on economic damages. Nor did they put their clients on the stand.In this case analysis with host Brendan Lupetin, Tom and Ben outline why those strategies and others worked. The jury awarded a total of $15 million in damages to the three plaintiffs. They also detail challenges, including the staffing company filing for bankruptcy and its owner suing the insurance company, claiming fraud. Tom’s team has separate claims against the insurance company in federal court. And while they did settle with the factory, they pursued trial against the staffing company when it repeatedly refused to accept responsibility. Learn More and Connect☑️ Tom Bosworth | LinkedIn | Instagram | TikTok ☑️ Ben Phelps | LinkedIn | Instagram ☑️ Bosworth Law | LinkedIn | Facebook☑️ Brendan Lupetin | LinkedIn☑️ Lupetin & Unatin, LLC☑️ Connect: Facebook | LinkedIn | YouTube☑️ Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode PreviewBackground of Brown v. Global Solutions, in which Tom and Ben represented three victims of a rollover crash.Tom and Ben refused to give up when the insurance carrier for the staffing company that employed the van’s driver argued that its coverage included an “auto exclusion” – “which is insane because the only thing that this company did was drive people in automobiles.”The plot twist that sent Tom to bankruptcy court.How Tom and Ben...
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    56 mins

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