George Moschopoulos — Minimal Employment, Maximum Verdict

Three weeks before trial, George Moschopoulos got the call. A sexual harassment case venued in San Bernardino: no physical contact, no expert witnesses, no treaters to testify — and a plaintiff who had already been sexually harassed at three prior employers. The defendant's offer was $125,000. George joins host Dan Ambrose to break down how he reframed the bad facts into immovable case frames, sequenced witnesses to tell a compelling story, and fought to get a damning surreptitious recording admitted as substantive evidence. The jury returned a $2 million verdict. Tune in for George's approach to framing, voir dire, witness sequencing, and his upcoming workshops at TLU Beach.

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Episode Snapshot

1. In November, George tried a sexual harassment "he said, she said" case in San Bernardino with no physical contact, no experts, and a short-term, part-time plaintiff — and won a $2 million verdict.
2. George was parachuted into the case about a month before trial when settlement discussions between a $125,000 defendant offer and a $250,000 plaintiff demand stalled; by the time he stepped in, he had three weeks to prepare.
3. The case carried severe constraints: no physical touching (words only), no expert witnesses or treaters set to testify, and no before-or-after witnesses — leaving the plaintiff herself as the sole source of emotional distress testimony.
4. A surreptitious recording made in California, a two-party consent state, was initially at risk of exclusion; George argued at a 402 hearing that the crowded restaurant setting left the defendant with no reasonable expectation of privacy — and won, getting the recording admitted as substantive evidence.
5. George builds his cases around immovable "frames" — like steel columns supporting a structure — identifying bad facts first, then turning them into central themes; in this case: an unusually susceptible plaintiff (three prior harassment incidents) and every employee's universal right to dignity in the workplace.
6. His mini opening strategy is to front-load bad facts so the jury hears them from plaintiff's counsel first — surfacing jurors who may not be fair and impartial.
7. For cause challenges, George uses a sequencing tactic: start with the second-strongest challenge to test the judge's threshold, then move to the strongest to build momentum.
8. George sequenced his four witnesses across three acts: CEO first (bad actor, recording played on day one) → wife via video deposition → HR office manager → plaintiff last.
9. After the verdict, jurors told co-counsel they were put off by hearing the defendant's financials early in trial — a lesson George took about the risks of trying punitive damages in a single, unbifurcated phase.
10. George will teach two workshops and deliver two lectures at TLU Beach on framing and sequencing employment cases, and building cross-examinations of HR investigators, neuropsych experts, and executive witnesses.

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