Managing shareholder Renée Welze Livingston’s article on effective cross-examination of psychological experts at trial and in deposition was published in the January 2020 edition of DRI’s magazine For The Defense.  In the article, “How Methodical Investigation Can Cast Doubt on a Psychological Expert’s Competence and Methodology” Ms. Livingston shares how a thorough investigation into an opposing expert’s background and methodology can undermine competence and uncover subjectivity.  To read the full article, click here.

DRI is the largest international organization of defense attorneys and in-house counsel committed to educating and improving the skills of defense law practitioners and defending the interests of business and individuals in civil litigation.  Ms. Livingston is an accomplished trial lawyer and member of ABOTA.  She handles catastrophic injury, wrongful death and other high-exposure product liability, trucking and premises liability cases.  She currently serves as President of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada. 

​Livingston Law Firm shareholder Crystal L. Van Der Putten recently obtained an appellate victory for a shopping center in a personal injury action involving an elderly driver who accidentally depressed his accelerator, causing his vehicle to jump over a parking block and severely injure the plaintiff, an invitee at the shopping center.  The California Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District, agreed with the shopping center that appellants waived challenges to the lower court’s rulings on two separate motions to compel and to the lower’s court’s evidentiary rulings at summary judgment when appellants failed to set forth separate headings and arguments on those issues.  Based on the evidence before it and current case law with substantially similar facts, the appellate court affirmed the lower court’s summary judgement ruling in the shopping center’s favor.