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The best cross-examination of an economist is not a debate over every number in the damages spreadsheet. It is a disciplined attack on the assumptions that make the number look larger, smaller, safer, or more certain than the evidence supports. In a Utah personal injury case, that means using short leading questions, one fact at a time, arranged in chapters that move the jury toward a clear factual goal. When the cross is built that way, the economist’s final number starts to

Voir dire is the process lawyers and the judge use to determine whether prospective jurors can fairly decide a personal injury case. The goal is not supposed to be finding eight people who already agree with the plaintiff or eight people predisposed toward the defense. Lawyers are trying to identify experiences, beliefs, and biases that could prevent a juror from evaluating the evidence under the court’s instructions. In a serious injury trial, that can mean asking directly a