Shifting Paradigms About Product Identification in Asbestos Claims:
Can a Witness Tell the Truth and Be Dead Wrong at the Same Time?
by Kevin L. Leahy, Esq.

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Kevin L. Leahy is a partner at the firm of Brown McCarroll, LLP, in Austin, Texas. Leahy practices litigation with an emphasis on product liability, environmental toxic tort case management, and professional liability defense. He has participated in several asbestos personal injury jury trials and has obtained significant defense verdicts in California, New York and Texas.

They say elephants never forget. Not so with people - we forget all the time, but that does not stop memory miracles from happening. For example, a witness' memory about a critical event in a lawsuit, even one …