Toolbox

Groundbreaking Collection of Research, Strategies, and Tools

From KF’s National Appellate Litigation & Consulting Group

Results

About the KF Appellate Group Toolbox

KF’s appellate group is the leading defense industry proponent of collaborative sharing of critical strategies, information, research, and templates of motions, briefs, and discovery demands. Our Toolbox serves this end and several other of our core goals:

efficiency and cost-savings for all clients and greater quality across our industry
tilting the playing field back toward greater fairness for defense litigants
preventing, mitigating, and discouraging the presently ubiquitous scourge of fraud
elimination of improper plaintiff bar tactics strategically designed to undermine the objectivity of lay jurors, striking at the very foundation of our system of civil justice
efficiency and cost-savings for all clients and greater quality across our industry
tilting the playing field back toward greater fairness for defense litigants
preventing, mitigating, and discouraging the presently ubiquitous scourge of fraud
elimination of improper plaintiff bar tactics strategically designed to undermine the objectivity of lay jurors, striking at the very foundation of our system of civil justice

Templates

Third-Party Litigation Funding Discovery

NY TPLF Discovery Demand Template NY TPLF Motion to Compel Template

Third-Party Litigation Funding Catastrophes

Illustrative Examples (Coming Soon)

critical strategies, information,
research, templates of motions,
briefs, and discovery demands

Fair Trial Motion
in Limine Templates

New York
Preclude Improper Send A Message Or Related Punitive Themes Preclude Improper Themes Of Wealth, Insurance, Corporate Animus, Discount Preclude Improper Golden Rule Comments or Themes Preclude Improper and Unconstitutional Failure to Take Responsibility Comments or Themes Preclude Improper Community Safety Comments or Themes
California (Coming Soon) New Jersey Texas (Coming Soon) Florida (Coming Soon)

Anchoring Abuse Motion in Limine Templates

New York California (Coming Soon) New Jersey Texas (Coming Soon) Florida (Coming Soon)

PC Website Redaction Motion in Limine Template

New York California (Coming Soon) New Jersey (Coming Soon) Texas (Coming Soon) Florida (Coming Soon)

Judicial Supervision / Transcription of Voir Dire Motion in Limine Template (New York Only)

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Special KF Industry
Research Projects

Transcripts Of Medical Witnesses Routinely Appearing For NY Plaintiff Firms In Personal Injury Litigations

Summation Impropriety Database (under construction)

Coming Soon

A View From The Slaughterhouse: NY Nuclear Verdicts Project (2010-Present) Demonstrating Their Direct Causal Relationship With Plaintiff Counsel Summation Misconduct & Improper & Unsubstantiated Anchoring (under construction)

Coming Soon

NY Damages Database & Sustainable Value Calculator (CPLR 5501(c)) (under construction)

Coming Soon

Spreadsheet Of Personal Injury Litigations Involving Medical Witnesses Appearing For NY Plaintiff Firms

Coming Soon

Spreadsheet Of Personal Injury Lawsuits Dropped By NY Plaintiff Firms

Coming Soon

Whitepapers

The Sunlight Disinfectant Principle: Transparency & Full Disclosure Are Necessary Safeguards for Consumer Litigation Funding (January 2024)

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Articles

January 2024

The Sunlight Disinfectant Principle: Transparency & Full Disclosure Are Necessary Safeguards for Consumer Litigation Funding (January 2024)

 January 2024

Perez Broke Records … But Should He Have Settled Earlier?(January 2024)

 October 2023

The Significant Impact of Interest Taxation as a Settlement Valuation Bridge (October 2023)

 August 2023

Anchoring Abuse: Evolution & Eradication (August 2023)

 August 2023

The Rise Of The Improper P2P Tactic (August 2023)

 June 2023

The Preservation Maze (June 2023)

 May 2023

Correcting Unnecessary Misapprehensions Regarding Interest Calculation In NY Wrongful Death Cases (May 2023)

 March 2023

Debunking the Myth of Differing Bifurcation Rules Among the Departments (March 2023)

 December 2022

Hoylman, Half-Truths and the Grieving Families Act (December 2022)

 December 2022

The Snake Attack Phenomenon: The Courts Must Stop Overlooking and Facilitating The Continued Poisoning of Our Jury System (December 2022)

 July 2021

The Mythical ‘Bucket Brigade’ Recovery Scheme (July 2021)

 July 2021

Inefficiency in The Courthouse: The Nonsense in Withholding Settlement Amounts From Non-Settling Tortfeasors (July 2021)

 March 2021

The Riddle of State Actor Status for Private Foster Care Agencies (March 2021)

 November 2020

The Punitive ‘Failure To Take Responsibility’ Trope Must Be Entirely Policed Out of Tort Actions for Compensatory Damages (November 2020)

 October 2020

The Bar’s Most Common Repeated Mistakes in Applying CPLR 5501(c) (October 2020)

 September 2020

When a Pattern Jury Instruction Contrary to New York Law Arrogates the Law (September 2020)

 September 2020

When Dicta Runs Amok: Untangling PJI 2:320 (September 2020)

 August 2020

A Lie is a Lie is a Lie: Toward a Broader Application of the Tailored Testimony Rule (August 2020)

 July 2020

Ahead to the Past (Part III of III): The Evolution of New Rules of Engagement in the Age of Social Inflation and Nuclear Verdicts (July 2020)

 July 2020

Ahead to the Past (Part II of III): The Evolution of New Rules of Engagement in the Age of Social Inflation and Nuclear Verdicts (July 2020)

 July 2020

Ahead to the Past (Part I of III): The Evolution of New Rules of Engagement in the Age of Social Inflation and Nuclear Verdicts (July 2020)

 April 2020

Improper Summation Anchoring Is Turning the New York Court System on Its Head and Contributing to the Demise of New York State (April 2020)

 September 2019

Time To Repair the Split In Application of Labor Law §200 (September 2019)

 July 2019

CPLR 5501(c) Review of Excessive Future Medical Expenses Awards (July 2019)

 June 2019

CPLR 5501(c) Review in the Age of Summation ‘Anchoring’ Abuse (June 2019)

 September 2018

What Really Happened in ‘Carlos Rodriguez v. City of New York’? (September 2018)