I file lawsuits for a living. Thus, I understand that reasonable minds often differ about whether there is liability in a given situation, often because there is a dispute about the facts. I also understand the idea of pushing the legal envelope – of attempting to expand the law to create…
Ok, so this post is not about tort law. But it is information that tort lawyers (or their assistants) can use. Sometimes it is handy to create a demand letter or another document and use hyperlinks to allow the reader to quickly and easily view other documents that will be…
Starting next week I will begin to write about the bills that passed the 2010 General Assembly that are of interest to tort lawyers. There are fewer tort law-related bills in 2010 than there were in 2009, but the changes that have been made are changes you should know…
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the family of a woman killed in a car accident should be permitted to bring suit against Mazda Motor Corp. alleging that the death was caused by the failure of Mazda to install three-point seatbelts in its 1993 MPV minivan. Here…
The University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service, Municipal Technical Advisory Service, has a collection of municipal codes and charters of most of the cities in Tennessee.
The Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ordered a district judge to re-consider the fee to be awarded to plaintiff’s counsel in a personal injury case that resulted in a $18M dollar settlement. The district court had cut the fee from $6M to $600,000. The appellate court concluded that…
Max Kennerly has this interesting post that sprung from a post on Kevin, M.D. about a doctor who was a victim of poor medical care. The doctor went to a lawyer, not because she wanted money (she said) but because she wanted an apology. The lawyer couldn’t take her case…
Are you a male lawyer who finds a woman in your office particularly attractive? Are you weird enough to even contemplate secreting a camera under her desk and filming … whatever? Well, it allegedly crossed the mind of this Atlanta tax lawyer, and he is accused of actually putting…
Can’t quite figure out if that automobile accident case happened in Davidson or Wilson County, Tennessee? This website has a detailed map of every Tennessee county that you can use to start your investigation into this issue.
The Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts has released a database that allows the public to see what number of cases were closed in each judicial district and by each of the trial judges in the state. The database allows searches by judicial district or by judge. When a judge’s…