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Professor warren waists no time. she earned a reputation for being tough and demanding. theres one question she asks her students. one few answer correctly. >> three words i ask at the beginning. what is assumpsit. >> its in the first case assigned. >> i just call on someone. i have a seating chart. >> she said, lets get started. mr. kennedy. no hello. no good morning. no welcome to law school. i was stunned. i had no idea. i stumbled through it. i will never forget the look on her face. i dont ...

Days in this country, it would be malpractice not to ask you about our lead story tonight. >> yes. >> especially this oligarch in the news. >> yes. i know mr. deripaska, or at least i should say i used to know mr. deripaska when i was ambassador. im banned from traveling to russia now, so i havent seen him since then. its a strange story. i dont understand it, and its a strange american story too as you were just talking about earlier because big american companies were involved here too. it see...

It possible that a flawed deal kept the world safer? you write in your book that its very clear this is the best we were all going to get. >> yes. its like any deal. a deal is an offer, and you got to decide are we better off taking the deal? whether youre buying a house, any deal, you think of it as a transaction. you get to the end of the negotiation, and you say, are we better off with the deal or not? this one got rid of irans nuclear program. and people keep saying temporarily. 10 to 15 yea...

A deal is an offer, and you got to decide are we better off taking the deal? whether youre buying a house, any deal, you think of it as a transaction. you get to the end of the negotiation, and you say, are we better off with the deal or not? this one got rid of irans nuclear program. and people keep saying temporarily. 10 to 15 years, brian. thats temporarily? a lot can happen in 10 to 15 years whereas today we dont know what iran will do next. and as you alluded to in your remarks, weve aliena...

Professor warren waists no time. she earned a reputation for being tough and demanding. theres one question she asks her students. one few answer correctly. >> three words i ask at the beginning. what is assumsit. >> its in the first case assigned. >> i just call on someone. i have a seating chart. >> she said, lets get started. mr. kennedy. no hello. no good morning. no welcome to law school. i was stunned. i had no idea. i stumbled through it. i will never forget the look on her face. i dont k...

Her husband had delirately deceived, humiliated and abandoned her, michelle ntinued to defend him. >> he was an excellent doctor. thats why it really infuriated me to see his name dragged through the mud. >> the real culprits, michelle felt, were former patients egged on by greedy lawyers who were suing him for malpractice. >> i think its a big opportunistic, but thats the state of our legal system in this country. thats what doctors have to face every day. >> how can you stand up for him now? >...

Psychological association that july was a prestigious honor for a grad student like michelle. even though mark begged her not to go, she went anyway. >> and things started to change while i was in hawaii. he called me and said lawyers were claiming that he was doing unnecessary surgery and he was afraid it was going to become a class action suit, at which point he jumps ten steps ahead and assumes that his insurance company would settle, his license would be taken away, and everything would be d...

I couldnt even identify what my emotions were. >> out in california, shawn barnes, a college student, was heading home for the holidays when her aunt called to tell her. >> i got that news, and you have all this time to think going across the country. and it was just like the strangest christmas present i ever could have imagined. >> shawns mother phyllis barnes, remember, had been a patient of weinbergers and filed the first malpractice suit against him. >> i wasnt sure at first if it was a goo...

>> it really is not about the money. its about getting a large judgment against this man so that he cant feel any freedom for the rest of his life. >> march 2011, 6 1/2 years after he disappeared into the greek night, the first malpractice case against mark weinberger was ready for trial in civil court. coming up -- >> he is a very evil person. >> nothing is ever as cut-and-dry as you believe it is. humanity, some soul, something. he has nothing. perhaps it was always there, in his eyes, a

>> it was after dark by the time the jury of four men and four women reached their unanimous decision. dr. mark weinberger had committed malpractice in the case of phyllis barnes. >> were pleased that the jury has held mark weinberger accountable for his misdeeds. >> the jury determined that phyllis estate should be awarded a total of $13 million in compensatory nitive damages. >> having this verdict at least puts her to rest in the most positive way, knowing that, you know, in her passing shes ...