Pat Vipond, Author at Lamson Dugan & Murray LLP

About Pat Vipond

Pat Vipond is a founding partner of Lamson Dugan & Murray and currently serves on the Management Committee of the Firm. Mr. Vipond has over 32 years of courtroom experience representing corporations, individuals and partnerships in a wide variety of commercial, insurance, and professional negligence litigation.

18 Jul, 2022

COVID and Juror Attitudes About Science

Pat Vipond2022-07-18T13:59:48-05:00July 18th, 2022|LDM MedMal Forum|

Fresh from a mistrial due to COVID causing the jury panel to be deficient in number, I was thinking of some non-scientific observations about jurors, jury selection, and jury pools during our ongoing COVID era. Some juror’s attitudes have changed our jury venire and the possible areas of inquiry to “deselect” jurors in a very scientific area of litigation: medical malpractice lawsuits. Here are some observations and areas of inquiry [...]

25 May, 2022

One Size Does Not Fit All – The Locality Rule in Nebraska

Pat Vipond2022-05-25T16:00:26-05:00May 25th, 2022|LDM MedMal Forum, Litigation Tips, Medical Malpractice, Midwest Medical Legal Advisor|

As medical malpractice defense attorneys, we are often asked: Will the opposing party be able to find an expert to support what is believed to be a baseless claim of malpractice? We must respond that we do not know, but in the United States usually if you are willing to pay enough money, you can find an expert to say almost anything. There is a cottage industry of so-called expert [...]