Successful Defense Verdict in Hospitality Security and Dram Shop Trial

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Russell Kolins was contacted in 2018 by one of the nation’s leading trial lawyers for the defense to review the facts of a fatal head-on collusion in which the defendant driver had a 0.17 BAC at the time of the accident, minutes after leaving a private club from which he was a member and was cut off from being served alcoholic beverages. Mr. Kolins then conducted a deep dive analysis of those facts, which caused him to accept being retained. He authored a report based on all of the subsequent discovery materials, which facts were consistent with the initial analysis. Mr. Kolins was qualified as an expert to testify at trial on August 22, 2020, regarding hospitality security, standard of care, and protocols of surveillance video. Based on the facts, law, and excellent lawyering, it took little time for the jury to return a defense verdict.