Mark Kosieradzki has been featured in the March 2009 issue of LawyersUSA, a national news publication for attorneys.  The article, entitled "Voir Dire tips for med-mal cases," provides insights for trial attorneys regarding the jury selection process in medical malpractice trials.  For its article, LawyersUSA "asked several veteran trial consultants and plaintiffs' trial attorneys [including Mark Kosieradzki] to share their favorite voir dire [jury selection] questions in med-mal cases, and to explain how those questions can increase the odds of a courtroom victory."
 

Mark Kosieradzki’s article, “The Impressive Cross Examination,” has been published in the March 2009 issue of Trial magazine. Trial is published by the American Association for Justice (AAJ). The article provides analysis for fellow trial lawyers to help jurors understand and process the evidence in a case through cross-examination of witnesses at trial.


KOSIERADZKI NAMED "BEST LAWYER"
Mark Kosieradzki has been selected for the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Personal Injury Litigation. For over a quarter of a century, Best Lawyers® has been regarded – by both the profession and the public – as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 2.8 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country.

STAR-TRIBUNE REPORT: DEADLY FALLS IN MINNESOTA NURSING HOMES

The Star-Tribune has just published a three-part investigation report about the significance of nursing home fall incidents. Reporters Glenn Howatt and Pam Louwagie have put together an excellent expose on a problem the Kosieradzki Smith Law Firm has been fighting for years – preventable falls in nursing homes with catastrophic and deadly consequences. 

“More than 100 Minnesotans die each year after falls in the state’s 397 nursing homes. Nothing the nursing home industry has done in the past seven years has significantly reduced the number of deaths.”

“Hospital bills to treat the elderly for falls totaled more than $1.1 billion in Minnesota between 1998 and 2005, according to the State Department of Health.” Click here for to learn more about this important report.

Kara Rahimi recently spoke to the national Nursing Home Litigation Group a  conference for the American Association for Justice (AAJ). The conference, "Litigating Nursing Cases," took place in Chicago on October 17th and 18th. Kara spoke on the subject of "Electronic Medical Research."