In what is often referred to as the bane of my professional existence as a plaintiff’s lawyer, the infamous McDonalds case has resurfaced again. Since it inspired the title of my entire blog, I thought I should spotlight its latest phoenix-like rise. It comes back into the watchful eye of popular culture now in a [...]
Comments >>28. September 2010
I admit that I am 100% guilty of what I’m recommending in this week’s blog. So, I am officially qualifying this post by admitting wholeheartedly that I recognize the hypocrisy of my lawyerly ways and understand I am taking a “do as I say, not as I do” stance. Even worse, after finishing this week’s [...]
Comments >>2. September 2010
Five years after my client’s car accident the case finally went to trial. And after three days a verdict was reached that made me angry about the what she went through at the hands of the system. I realized much of my anger was directed not so much at the person that hit her, not [...]
Comments >>27. August 2010
In preparing to draft a demand to the insurance company, I am reading through my client’s medical records. I come upon a recent report from her doctor. I read the latest report that purportedly summarizes the results from her bone scan. The report says the following: “There was a focus of intense abnormal tracer uptake [...]
Comments >>30. June 2010
A lot of folks are still harboring the old common law notion that you aren’t liable if your dog bites somebody for the first time. It used to be referred to as the “one free bite” rule. The idea was that after your dog showed vicious behavior by taking a bite out [...]
Comments >>3. June 2010
I admit I like rules, pomp and circumstance, and order just like all lawyers. For the most part, barely understandable legal jargon is like a warm cozy blanket for the lawyer, me included. But there is one thing that I have a hard time grasping as a relatively new lawyer: Motion Work. The concept is [...]
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27. January 2011
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