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  • Kylie Schmidt and Nicole Quintana – Landing $400,000 for Flight Paramedic's Ear Injury

    Kylie Schmidt and Nicole Quintana – Landing $400,000 for Flight Paramedic's Ear Injury
    May 23 2025
    Two routine medical flights turned catastrophic when the cabin rapidly depressurized, leaving a flight paramedic with permanent tinnitus and hearing loss. In this case break-down with host Keith Fuicelli, Nicole Quintana and Kylie Schmidt of Ogborn Mihm discuss how they navigated complex aviation maintenance records, fought an admission of liability that wasn't truly an admission, and overcame defense arguments about their client's recreational shooting and explosives training to secure verdicts totalling nearly $400,000 for both incidents.Learn More and Connect with Colorado Trial Lawyers☑️ Kylie Schmidt | LinkedIn☑️ Nicole Quintana | LinkedIn☑️ Ogborn Mihm on LinkedIn | Facebook | YouTube☑️ Keith Fuicelli | LinkedIn☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode SnapshotThe case involved a flight paramedic who suffered permanent tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and hearing loss after cabin depressurization incidents in an air ambulance.The trial team identified maintenance failures that caused the rapid loss of cabin pressure that damaged their client's ears.Focus groups encouraged the team to disclose their client's recreational activities – shooting and explosives training – upfront rather than let the defense use them as a "gotcha" moment.The client's annual hearing tests for his job proved invaluable in showing that he had...
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  • Allison Pritchard and Phil Meinkoth – Surveillance, Strategy, and a $240K Slip-and-Fall Verdict

    Allison Pritchard and Phil Meinkoth – Surveillance, Strategy, and a $240K Slip-and-Fall Verdict
    May 9 2025
    When a 68-year-old woman shattered her kneecap after slipping in Walmart, defense attorneys expected an easy win—ignoring that surveillance footage revealed employees had walked past the water spill without action for 30 minutes. Allison Pritchard and Phil Meinkoth of Olson Personal Injury Lawyers reveal to host Keith Fuicelli how they meticulously built their case, leveraging surveillance footage, strategic witness cross-examinations, and a perfectly calculated damage ask that delivered a $240,000 verdict—exceeding their pre-trial demand by nearly $70,000.Learn More and Connect with Colorado Trial Lawyers☑️ Allison Pritchard | LinkedIn☑️ Phil Meinkoth | LinkedIn☑️ Olson Personal Injury Lawyers on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube☑️ Keith Fuicelli | LinkedIn☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers Website☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode SnapshotThe client slipped in a pool of water that had been present for 30 minutes after ice delivery, breaking her kneecap so severely that she permanently lost the lower half of her patella.Surveillance footage revealed four Walmart employees walking directly through the area without addressing the hazard.The team fought to obtain complete surveillance footage, initially receiving only 5 minutes...
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  • Courtney Samuel – Train Like Your Practice Depends On It

    Courtney Samuel – Train Like Your Practice Depends On It
    Apr 21 2025
    Lawyers have a stressful job and, as host Keith Fuicelli explains, “keeping our bodies in peak optimal performance is critical to success.” That’s why he invites his personal trainer, Courtney Samuel, to the show to encourage lawyers to take up a physical fitness regimen. Courtney lays out why maintaining muscle mass becomes increasingly crucial as we age and offers practical fitness guidance for busy professionals. Tune in for Courtney’s insights about the importance of treating your body as professionally as your legal practice.Learn More and Connect with Colorado Trial Lawyers☑️ Courtney Samuel | LinkedIn☑️ Bodies By Perseverance on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | X☑️ Keith Fuicelli | LinkedIn☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers Website☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode SnapshotCourtney's path from NFL prospect with a computer science degree to fitness entrepreneur.Why beginners should look to personal trainers as they embark on their fitness journey. How maintaining muscle mass becomes increasingly crucial as we age, particularly to prevent conditions like osteoporosisWhy boxing is an excellent low-impact, high-intensity cardio option.Courtney recommends starting with two weekly strength training sessions (45-60 minutes) that focus on upper and lower body.Simple body-weight exercises anyone can do in limited time: push-ups, sit-ups, dips, squats, and jumping jacks.The mindset necessary to overcome the "inner voice" that wants to skip workouts.Bodies By Perseverance has two Denver locations: the main 10,000-square-foot facility (30th and Downing) and a personal training studio in Cherry Creek...
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  • Alana Anzalone and Melanie Stuckey – Securing $2.2M for a Client with Herniated Discs

    Alana Anzalone and Melanie Stuckey – Securing $2.2M for a Client with Herniated Discs
    Apr 4 2025
    A seemingly routine case turned extraordinary when Alana Anzalone and Melanie Stuckey secured a $2.2 million verdict in Adams County for a 22-year-old client with herniated discs. Their victory is even more remarkable considering this was Melanie's first trial after transitioning from paralegal to attorney, and they faced a defendant who shockingly denied even hitting their client's car despite totaling it. Host Keith Fuicelli explores how their teamwork, strategic witness preparation, and powerful rebuttal of the defense's degenerative disc claims led to a jury award exceeding their request.Learn More and Connect with Colorado Trial Lawyers☑️ Alana Anzalone | LinkedIn ☑️ Anzalone & Doyle Trial Lawyers on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook☑️ Melanie Stuckey | LinkedIn☑️ Donaldson Law on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook☑️ Keith Fuicelli | LinkedIn☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers Website☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode SnapshotMelanie's inspiring journey from 25-year paralegal career to law school graduate and trial lawyer...
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  • Melanie Sulkin – Turning a Low-Impact Crash into a $583K Verdict

    Melanie Sulkin – Turning a Low-Impact Crash into a $583K Verdict
    Feb 7 2025
    At a glance, the two large vehicles involved in a rear-end collision – a Toyota 4Runner and a Nissan Xterra – didn’t appear visibly damaged. And Melanie Sulkin’s client didn’t appear injured. But Melanie pursued the case beyond surface images. She recounts her methods with host Keith Fuicelli. From proving the significant frame damage to her client’s car and the permanent injury to her client’s rotator cuff, Melanie describes an approach that yielded a jury verdict of nearly $583,000.Learn More and Connect with Colorado Trial Lawyers☑️ Melanie Sulkin | LinkedIn☑️ Krivit Law | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook☑️ Keith Fuicelli | LinkedIn☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode SnapshotMelanie found her calling as an undergraduate when she founded Northern Illinois University’s mock trial team.Early in her career, Melanie was on the team that tried the first M2a Magnum Biomet case in the country.In a recent case, Melanie represented a client who was rear-ended, but both her client’s car and the defendant’s car showed little to no visible property damage.Even though the defendant originally admitted fault, his stories changed during trial in an attempt to place some blame on Melanie’s client.In arguing that the crash caused her client’s rotator cuff tear, Melanie showed photos of the car, and her client testified that she had the entire frame repaired. Melanie struck many jurors who said during voir dire that her client “looks fine.” When the “mechanism of injury” became a question at trial, Melanie elicited an answer from the defense surgeon.The defendant’s insurance carrier initially agreed to a demand of $300,000, but then backed off. For Melanie’s client, the decision...
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  • Clay Wire and Jason Wesoky – The Contract Dispute with a “Mean Girls” Plot

    Clay Wire and Jason Wesoky – The Contract Dispute with a “Mean Girls” Plot
    Jan 31 2025
    Text messages, complete with poop emojis, revealed that a charter school’s board members targeted the executive director because they just didn’t like her. “It was like ‘Mean Girls,’” recalls Jason Wesoky, who, with colleague Clay Wire, represented the director.Tune into this case breakdown with host Keith Fuicelli as Jason and Clay describe how they framed the contract dispute as a set-up by board members hoping to boot their client off the job. In the end, she won a jury verdict of about $950,000.Learn More and Connect with Colorado Trial Lawyers☑️ Clay Wire | LinkedIn☑️ Jason Wesoky | LinkedIn☑️ Ogborn Mihm on LinkedIn | Facebook☑️ Keith Fuicelli | LinkedIn☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers Website☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode SnapshotWhen he realized that he was making more as a bartender than he would as a political scientist or journalist, Clay turned to law school.Jason grew up in the legal world and went to college knowing he wanted to be a lawyer.Clay and Jason represented the executive director of a Colorado charter school when a new board refused to honor her contract.Because the team couldn’t bring tort claims against a governmental entity, they focused on a contract claim for economic damages through the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act.Their client used the state’s social security replacement for public employees to draw on her retirement and then return to work under the contract. The defense argued that their client had, in fact, retired and that she wasn’t honoring her contract.Text messages provided through...
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  • Dan Lipman - $2M Verdict Redefines Physical Impairment in Sexual Assault Cases

    Dan Lipman - $2M Verdict Redefines Physical Impairment in Sexual Assault Cases
    Nov 26 2024
    The jury in Dan Lipman’s civil case on behalf of a young sexual assault survivor awarded $2,020,000 in three categories of damages: economic, non-economic, and physical impairment. The last category was notable because few, if any, Colorado juries have awarded damages for physical impairment based on emotional trauma.Now, one has.“We can’t find another verdict where, in a civil case, a sexual assault victim proved physical impairment not from physical injury, like being beaten, but from the emotional aspect of it. And we think that this is a notable case that will help open the door to other survivors of sexual assault,” he explains to host Keith Fuicelli.Tune in to hear Dan break down this strategy and other approaches in the Jefferson County case. For lawyers, Dan provides questions they should answer in screening sexual assault cases and, once they’re working with a client, tips for prioritizing empathy.Learn More and Connect with Colorado Trial Lawyers☑️ Dan Lipman | LinkedIn☑️ Parker Lipman | LinkedIn☑️ Keith Fuicelli | LinkedIn☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers Website☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode SnapshotDan’s focus on sexual assault cases began with the case of a male swimming coach who was having sexual contact with a 16-year-old swimmer.The two questions Dan answers when he screens these types of cases.The complicated landscape of the statute of limitations for sex assault claims.Background of the Jefferson County case where Dan represented a girl who was sexually assaulted by her mother’s fiance.In asking for damages, Dan categorized his client’s emotional trauma as physical impairment, a technique that yielded a notable verdict.How Dan “ferociously” fought the defense argument that his client’s PTSD diagnosis was created by lawyers.If PTSD physically impairs the brain, why not get an MRI? “You want to be really careful to say that imaging can show these...
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  • Ross Ziev – $350,000 in Slip-and-Fall that Unfolded Like a Murder Mystery

    Ross Ziev – $350,000 in Slip-and-Fall that Unfolded Like a Murder Mystery
    Nov 12 2024
    Jurors listened, wide-eyed, as Ross Ziev presented his case against King Sooper Grocery Store. His client was injured in a slip-and-fall, but they may as well have been watching a murder mystery as a poor-quality video revealed “who-dun-it.”“You could see in the jury’s eyes – they were trying to figure out what caused this as well,” Ross recalls in this case break-down with host Keith Fuicelli. They ultimately awarded $350,000 to his client for pain and suffering and physical impairment.The store’s video proved to be pivotal evidence, and Ross details his strategy for when and how he presented it. He also walks through important steps that PI plaintiffs’ lawyers should take in such cases, starting with claims notes, incident reports, and video. And he offers advice for how to compel an obstructionist defense to disclose vital information. As for who caused his client’s fall… tune in to find out!Learn More and Connect with Colorado Trial Lawyers☑️ Ross Ziev I LinkedIn☑️ Legal Help in Colorado I LinkedIn I Instagram I Facebook☑️ Keith Fuicelli | LinkedIn☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers☑️ Fuicelli & Lee Injury Lawyers on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeEpisode SnapshotRoss’ path from his native Dallas to law school at the University of Denver to launching his own firm in 2019.Background of Ross’ case on behalf of a woman who slipped and fell in the aisle of a King Soopers Grocery Store.Ross filed a formal settlement demand, but his experience has taught him that adjusters try to low-ball the plaintiff’s lawyer.Ross’ questioning of the assistant manager revealed that the store cleaned up the spill before any photos of it were taken.The defense went to trial assuming that a random customer caused the spill. Ross’ team reviewed store video that showed the real...
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