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The Great Trials Podcast

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The Great Trials Podcast offers a series of laid-back, casual conversations with leading trial lawyers, taking listeners "behind the scenes" of America’s greatest trials. Hosted by acclaimed trial lawyers Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey, each podcast episode focuses on one important trial and includes in-depth, insightful interviews with the attorneys who successfully argued the case in front of a judge and jury.

Episodes

GTP Classic | Kalpana Srinivasan and Max Tribble │Title Source, Inc. v. HouseCanary, Inc., f/k/a Canary Analytics, Inc.│$706.2 Million Verdict

This week, we replay a classic GTP episode where your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Kalpana Srinivasan and Max Tribble of Kalpana Srinivasan and Max Tribble of Susman Godfrey LLP ( https://www.susmangodfrey.com/ ) Remember to rate and review GTP on iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Case Details: High-stakes trial lawyers Kalpana Srinivasan and Max Tribble of Susman Godfrey LLP explain how they secured the largest intellectual property verdict in the United States in 2018 in ...

Feb 08, 20222 hr 30 min

Derrick Alexander Pope │Hidden Legal Figures Podcast Collaboration │The City of Memphis v. Martin Luther King, Jr. et al.

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Derrick Alexander Pope of Hidden Legal Figures ( https://www.hiddenlegalfigures.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Episode Details: Hidden Legal Figures Podcast host Derrick Alexander Pope returns to discuss what proved to be Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last legal stand and how its historical significance continues to impact protests to this day. In February 1968, more t...

Feb 01, 20221 hr 15 minEp. 145

Patrick Arenz | Richard H. Tholen, M.D. v. Assist America, Inc. | $27.8 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Patrick Arenz of Robins Kaplan LLP ( https://www.robinskaplan.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Episode Details: Patrick Arenz of Robins Kaplan LLP shares how he successfully represented Twin Cities, Minnesota plastic surgeon Richard H. Tholen after he was denied emergency medical evacuation by Assist America, Inc. for a severe knee injury, which resulted in an above-the-knee amputation....

Jan 25, 20221 hr 19 minEp. 144

GTP Classic | State of Alabama v. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Derrick Alexander Pope | Hidden Legal Figures

This week, in celebration of Martin Luther King Day, we're replaying one of our favorite interviews with Derrick A. Pope of The Arc of Justice Institute ( https://onthearc.net/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Episode Details: In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Hidden Legal Figures Podcast host Alexander Pope returns to discuss the landmark 1956 case against Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. for his role in the year-long Montgomery, Al...

Jan 18, 20221 hr 28 min

Don Keenan | Bartholomew v. Zurbrugg, M.D. | $13.75 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey continue their interview Don Keenan of The Keenan Law Firm ( https://www.keenanlawfirm.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch GTP on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Known as a tireless advocate for children and a fierce trial lawyer, Don Keenan of The Keenan Law Firm discusses how he used an innovative causation strategy to successfully repr...

Jan 11, 20222 hr 34 minEp. 143

Moshik Temkin (Part II) | Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti | The Sacco-Vanzetti Trial

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey continue their interview with Moshik Temkin, Harvard University Associate Professor of History and Public Policy and author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial ( https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/moshik-temkin ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch GTP on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Harvard University Associate Professor of...

Jan 04, 202257 minEp. 142

Moshik Temkin | Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti | The Sacco-Vanzetti Trial

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Moshik Temkin, Harvard University Associate Professor of History and Public Policy and author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial ( https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/moshik-temkin ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch GTP on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Harvard University Associate Professor of History and Public ...

Dec 28, 20211 hr 8 minEp. 141

Jim M. Perdue, Sr. & Jim M. Perdue, Jr. | Alexander v. Battaglia et. al. | $3.6 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Jim M. Perdue, Sr. and Jim M. Perdue, Jr of Perdue and Kidd ( https://www.perdueandkidd.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch GTP on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Texas trial lawyers Jim M. Perdue, Sr. and Jim M. Perdue, Jr. -- Perdue & Kidd's father-and-son trial team -- take a look back at the first case they ever tried togeth...

Dec 21, 20212 hr 38 minEp. 140

Bill, James & Ryals Stone | Thornal v. Clausen | $26.1 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Bill Stone, James Stone and Ryals Stone of The Stone Law Group ( https://www.stonelaw.net/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch GTP on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: The Stone Law Group's trial team -- comprised of father Bill Stone and sons James Stone and Ryals Stone -- explain how they thoroughly investigated a fatal car accident ...

Dec 14, 20212 hr 57 minEp. 139

Don Fountain & Drew Ashby | Batchelder et al v. Malibu Boats, LLC, f/k/a Malibu Boats, Inc.; Malibu Boats West, Inc. et al. | $200 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Don Fountain of Clark, Fountain, La Vista, Prather & Littky-Rubin ( https://www.clarkfountain.com/ ) and Drew Ashby of Ashby Thelen & Lowry ( https://www.atllaw.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch GTP on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Don Fountain of Clark, Fountain, La Vista, Prather & Littky-Rubin and Drew Ashby of Ashby Thel...

Dec 07, 20212 hr 42 minEp. 138

GTP CLASSIC | Daniel Rodriguez, Chantal A. Trujillo & Danay Gonzalez│Bowe Cleveland v. Taft Union High School District, et al.│$3.8 Million Verdict

This week we’re replaying a classic GTP episode where your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Daniel Rodriguez, Chantal A. Trujillo & Danay Gonzalez of Rodriguez & Associates Trial Lawyers ( https://www.rodriguezlaw.net/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Case Details: Rodriguez & Associates trial lawyers Daniel Rodriguez, Chantal A. Trujillo, and Danay Gonzalez explain how they became the first trial team to present a school shooting-related ...

Nov 30, 20211 hr 20 min

GTP CLASSIC | Mikal Watts │United States of America v. Mikal Watts

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Mikal Watts of Watts Guerra, LLP. ( https://www.wattsguerra.com/ ) Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Case Details: Mikal Watts, the founding partner of Watts Guerra LLP in Texas, has always been known as a fierce mass torts litigator with a history of winning cases against big corporations like Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. and Ford Motor Company. Then, he was charged with 95 counts of wire fraud,...

Nov 23, 20211 hr 26 min

John Uustal | Samantha Elena Gonzalez et al. v. Lifetime Brands, Inc. | $27 million settlement

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview John Uusta of Kelley | Uustal ( https://kelleyuustal.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch GTP on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: John Uustal, a founding partner of Kelley | Uustal in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, discusses how he refused to accept the findings of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, engineering experts, firefighter...

Nov 16, 20211 hr 22 minEp. 137

GTP CLASSIC | Jeff Harris and Rebecca Franklin Harris | Jones v. CSX | $11.2 million verdict

This week, in light of the tragedy that recently occurred during filming of the movie Rust, we’re replaying a classic episode where your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Jeff Harris of Harris, Lowry, and Manton ( www.hlmlawfirm.com ) and Rebecca Franklin Harris of Franklin Law ( franklinlawllc.com ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch GTP on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Two-time G...

Nov 09, 20211 hr 27 min

Edward Larson | The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes | The Scopes Monkey Trial | Part 2

Part two of our discussion with Edward Larson, Ph.D., J.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion ( Ed Larson ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Edward Larson, Ph.D., J.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and Ameri...

Nov 02, 20211 hr 24 minEp. 136

Edward Larson | The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes | The Scopes Monkey Trial | Part 1

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Edward Larson, Ph.D., J.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion ( Ed Larson ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Edward Larson, Ph.D., J.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Summer for the G...

Oct 26, 20211 hr 18 minEp. 135

Derrick Alexander Pope │Hidden Legal Figures Podcast Collaboration│Buchanan v. Warley and Shelley v. Kraemer

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Derrick Alexander Pope, Managing Director of the Arc of Justice Institute and host of the Hidden Legal Figures Podcast ( https://onthearc.net/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Derrick A. Pope, Managing Director of the Arc of Justice Institute and host of the Hidden Legal Figures Podcast, returns ...

Oct 19, 20211 hr 22 minEp. 134

Zoe Littlepage | Rowatt, Forrester and Scofield v. Wyeth | $134.1 Million Verdict

This week we're replaying a classic episode where your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Zoe Littlepage of Littlepage, Booth, Leckman ( http://www.littlepagebooth.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Case Details: Three Nevada women who developed breast cancer as a result of their use of Wyeth’s hormone replacement drugs, Prempro and Premarin. The jury found that Prempro and Premarin helped cause their cancers and that Wyeth misled the pub...

Oct 12, 20211 hr 9 min

Sarah Stempky-Kime | Vaylma Dorado v. McCoig Concrete Company and Leonard Wells | $17.8 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Sarah Stempky-Kime of Christensen Law ( https://www.davidchristensenlaw.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Sarah Stempky-Kime, an experienced trial lawyer and managing attorney at Christensen Law in Michigan, discusses how she secured justice for Vaylma Dorado, a woman who suffered a TBI and s...

Oct 05, 20211 hr 22 minEp. 133

Eric Fong | William Tisdale v. Apro LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Corporation | $91 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Eric Fong of Fong Law ( https://www.ericfonglaw.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdeO4IodggpSLyhWVdcWKw Episode Details: Eric Fong, an accomplished lawyer who has tried more than 100 civil and criminal jury trials, shares how he successfully represented his client William Tisdale after being brutally attacked by a robber due to a ...

Sep 28, 20211 hr 17 minEp. 132

Daniel Kramer & Teresa Johnson | Louis Acosta v. MAS Realty, LLC et al. | $12.6 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Daniel Kramer and Teresa Johnson of Kramer Trial Law ( https://www.kramerlaw.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch the video recording: Link Episode Details: California trial lawyers Daniel Kramer and Teresa Johnson of Kramer Trial Law share how they secured justice in a major premises liability case that was one of the first in-person civil jury trials to be held in Los Angeles d...

Sep 21, 20211 hr 17 minEp. 131

GTP CLASSIC | Karen Koehler | DINH Group v. Ride the Ducks | $123 Million Verdict

This week we're replaying a classic episode where your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Karen Koehler of Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore Law Firm ( stritmatter.com ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Case Details: Acclaimed trial lawyer Karen Koehler, also known as the “Velvet Hammer,” discusses how she secured justice for dozens of victims of the Sept. 24, 2015 mass casualty crash involving a defective duck boat -- a World War II vessel tu...

Sep 14, 20211 hr 11 min

Ronald Johnson & Jay Vaughn | Alton G. Godwin, et al. v. Eaton Asphalt Paving Co., Inc. | $70 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Ronald Johnson and Jay Vaughn of Hendy Johnson Vaughn Emery ( https://justicestartshere.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review New! Watch the video recording: https://youtu.be/vJAe3s1SkPo Episode Details: Kentucky trial lawyers Ronald Johnson and Jay Vaughn of Hendy Johnson Vaughn Emery explain how they held an asphalt paving company responsible for causing a car crash that killed Amy Skiba. ...

Sep 07, 20212 hr 41 minEp. 130

Tyler Thompson | Lori Rone, as Legal Guardian of Shannon Houchin v. Republic Services of Kentucky, LLC d/b/a Monarch Environmental and Jackie Jones | $27.3 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Tyler Thompson of Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd & Conway, PSC ( https://www.kytrial.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Episode Details: Kentucky trial lawyer Tyler Thompson of Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd & Conway, PSC explains how he successfully represented a teenage girl who sustained a permanent brain injury after a crash involving a Monarch Environmental garbage truck parked on the wrong side...

Aug 31, 20211 hr 20 minEp. 129

Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey | New Segment: Listener Questions

This week we have a very special episode. Your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview each other and launch a new segment for listener questions. Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Episode Details: Have you ever wanted to ask a question on The Great Trials Podcast? Well now you can! We’re launching a new listener question segment where you can submit your questions to be answered live on the air. To submit a question: Send us a direct message on Inst...

Aug 24, 20211 hr 14 minEp. 128

Gregorio Francis | In re Pigford II or "Black Farmers" Litigation | $1.25 billion settlement

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Gregorio "Greg" Francis of Osborne & Francis, PLLC ( https://www.realtoughlawyers.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Episode Details: Award-winning Florida trial lawyer Gregorio "Greg" Francis of Osborne & Francis, PLLC shares his experience serving as lead counsel for nearly 20,000 African-American farmers who received disparate treatment from the United States Department of Agriculture ...

Aug 17, 202158 minEp. 127

Tracey Dellacona | Ellen Wadsworth v. Howland. PA-C, Paustian, M.D., and Georgia EM-I Medical Services, P.C. | $5 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Tracey Dellacona of Dellacona Law Firm, LLC ( http://www.dellaconalaw.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Episode Details: Georgia trial lawyer and nurse Tracey Dellacona of Dellacona Law Firm, LLC shares how she strategically represented emergency room patient Ellen Wadsworth, whose misdiagnosed pain resulted in the amputation of both of her legs. On Thanksgiving Day in 2008, Ellen arrive...

Aug 10, 20211 hr 23 minEp. 126

GTP CLASSIC | Kay Van Wey │State of Texas v. Christopher Duntsch │Multi-Million Dollar Settlement - Part 1

This week we are replaying a GTP Classic episode. Your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Kay Van Wey of Van Wey, Presby, And Williams ( https://www.vanweylaw.com/ ) Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Case Details: In the first of a two-episode series, 17-time Dallas Super Lawyer Kay Van Wey shares how she held neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch – widely known as “Dr. Death” – accountable for performing surgeries under the influence of drugs an...

Aug 03, 20211 hr 19 min

Marc Diller | Cathrine Erickson v. Rosalie A. Cunio et al | $2.3 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Marc Diller of Diller Law, P.C. ( https://www.dillerlaw.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Episode Details: Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum member Marc Diller of Diller Law, P.C. explains how he secured justice for tenant Cathrine Erickson when her landlord failed to prepare her Watertown, Massachusetts rental property for winter, creating a dangerous situation that resulted in perma...

Jul 27, 20211 hr 25 minEp. 125

Ryan Saba and Robert Karwin | Nicholas Tusant v. City of Hemet et al. | $25.6 Million Verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Ryan Saba of Rosen Saba, LLP ( https://www.rosensaba.com/ ) and Robert Karwin of the Law Office of Robert P. Karwin ( https://www.karwinlaw.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Episode Details: Ryan Saba of Rosen Saba, LLP and Robert Karwin of the Law Office of Robert P. Karwin explain how they successfully represented California high school student Nicholas Tusant after he was struck by a ...

Jul 20, 20211 hr 22 minEp. 124