Civil Litigation,
Law Practice,
Appellate Practice
Aug. 27, 2018
Don’t walk into a post-trial motion trap
If you lose a trial or dispositive ruling, your first instinct may be to file a post-trial motion. But if you don’t need to preserve an issue and the court didn’t miss anything major, it can be a mistake to bring a post-trial motion without thinking strategically first.
Ben Feuer
Chairman
Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP
Appellate Law
Email: ben.feuer@calg.com
Northwestern Univ School of Law
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If you lose a trial or dispositive ruling, your first instinct may be to file a post-trial motion. No doubt, objections to statements of decision, new trial motions, JNOVs and motions for judgment as a matter of law can be useful tools for relief when the trial court simply missed something critical the first time around or a jury clearly blew it.
Their most common purpose, however, is prese...
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