Closing arguments taught from the transcript.
Larry Ruder's closing arguments were selected by West Publishing as teaching material in Closing Arguments: The Art and the Law and the Cyclopedia of Trial Practice.
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Ruder assisted the station's investigative report into the conditions behind the tunnel fire and the injuries that followed.
Record $8.8 million bus-pedestrian brain injury settlement
Full-length front-page coverage of the settlement for a landscape laborer struck by a high school bus.
Profile: Lawrence T. Ruder
A dedicated feature detailing Ruder's service and history.
2 Investigators: Chicago cabbie safety
Legal analysis of the licensing and safety record behind repeat incidents in the city's taxi fleet.
2 Investigators: CPS school bus vendors and their accident histories
Ruder reviewed vendor accident records for the station's examination of who the district contracts to carry students.
2 Investigators: CTA bus drivers with checkered safety records
Litigation background on transit driver discipline and what the authority knew before the crashes.
Crosswalk safety in Streeterville and the city's high-risk pedestrian corridors
Reporting on the intersections that produce the most pedestrian injuries, with case context from Ruder's practice.
$4 million jury verdict in maternal wrongful death case
Trial coverage of the verdict and the hospital conduct behind it.
$897,000 trial victory against a local school district
Local reporting on the McHenry County record verdict, later settled post-trial for $920,000.
Closing Arguments: The Art and the Law
Ruder's closing arguments selected by the publisher as teaching material for trial advocacy.
Cyclopedia of Trial Practice
Closing argument transcripts included as instructional examples.
Hospital Negligence: Legal and Administrative Issues, § 3:26
Ruder's trial work establishing the institutional negligence of a Chicago hospital is reviewed and cited in the standard text.
Collected articles for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
Peer-reviewed pieces written for the association's journal across the length of the practice.
What to Do After a Crash
The free guide Larry gives every caller: what to photograph, what not to sign, and which piece of evidence disappears first.
Reading about it is not the same as asking about it.
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