A recent meta-analysis by Tonelli et al (2009) analysed 52 controlled ESA-oncology trials; this meta-analysis was unique in that it did not include the BEST trial (Leyland-Jones et al, 2005) and included studies examining preoperative-ESA therapy.
"As a young attorney, he was the best trial attorney I'd ever seen.
She told Mr. Brafman: "My husband is the best trial lawyer in America.
"That's not possible," Mr. Agnifilo recalled Mr. Brafman saying, "because I'm the best trial lawyer in America".
"I think Houston has the best trial lawyers in the country," said Mr. Jamail, 76. "We go to the mat here".
"We really want the best trial to be done for this first trial, and this might not be it," he said.
Like the best trial lawyers, Brafman is a storyteller, who tries to turn his cases into narratives that jurors will read his way.
"Allen is one of the best trial lawyers around, and Cris, if you're facing any type of criminal difficulty, I can't think of anyone better.
"The F.D.A. report was very general, and we tried to be much more specific and use evidence from the best trial available.
Instead, cancer researchers have retrieved reams of data from Amgen and Johnson & Johnson and will soon develop a computer simulation of the trial to help determine the best trial design.
"He was generally considered the best trial lawyer" among the federal prosecutors in Greensboro, said David Freedman, a criminal defense lawyer in nearby Winston-Salem who tried a number of cases against Mr. Smith.
