06/11/2026
At our June firmwide meeting, Managing Partner Sean Muntz shared a powerful lesson inspired by the sinking of Titanic.
When Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, more than a dozen passengers and crew reported that the ship broke in two. Yet official inquiries and experts largely dismissed those accounts, concluding the ship sank intact.
Decades later, the wreck itself revealed the truth.
When Titanic was discovered on the ocean floor 73 years later, the physical evidence confirmed what many witnesses had said all along: the ship had split in two, with the bow and stern resting roughly half a mile apart.
So how does this apply to us as litigators?
It is a reminder that testimony matters, but hard evidence matters more.
Witness accounts can be affected by perspective, memory, pressure, and personal objectives. Documents, records, medical files, writings, physical evidence, and contemporaneous proof often provide the clearest path to the truth.
In legal practice, strong advocacy requires more than accepting the first version of events. It requires going deeper, asking better questions, and exhausting every effort to uncover evidence that cannot be ignored.
At RMO LLP, we are committed to thorough investigation, disciplined preparation, and building cases on the strongest evidence available, because the most compelling proof is often the proof that speaks for itself.
