Those of us who typically work for contingent fees have an extra incentive to work smarter. Like many of you, I have done a lot of reading in the field of time managment and project management, looking for ways to improve my productivity through better organization. I found this article on…
Post 10 addresses changes to the Personal Rights Protection Act of 1984, codified at TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 11. Here is a summary of the new law: Under present law, the Personal Rights Protection Act specifies that an individual is entitled to recover the actual damages suffered as…
Post 9 in our ongoing series of legislation of interest to tort lawyers addresses a new act that clarifies the responsibility of cemetary operators when they learn that a body has been interred in the wrong burial plot at the cemetery. If the cemetary operator complies with the statute no…
This is Post 8 in my review of the legislation of interest to tort lawyers that was passed by the General Assembly in 2009. Want to see more? Look at the Legislation 2009 category. This legislation is of interest to those who bring or defend dram shop cases. The new…
Last week I received a letter informing me that I had been selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America. I have been fortunate to have been included among this distinguished group of lawyers since 1993. This year I have been listed in the specialties of Bet-the-Company Litigation,…
Here is Post 7 of recent changes to statutory law in Tennessee that I think will be of interest to tort lawyers. As I have said in the last six posts, you can read about additional changes in the law under the Legislation 2009 category. Public Chapter 206 changed the…
The "Dead By Mistake" website, hosted by the San Francisco Chronicle, contains chilling stories of deficiencies in our health care system that result in injury and death. This alone brings the point home: more people die each month from preventable medical errors than died in the terrorist attacks of 9/11.…
LIke you, I get a lot of emails every day. All too often, I permit emails to control my work schedule – a big mistake. Here is a nice article that gives suggestions for managing the mass of emails that enter our lives every day. The writer, Stever Robbins, accurately points…
I admire people who have the foresight and courage to pick a practice area and learn it, inside out. I greatly admire those who share the knowledge they have to help other lawyers and the public. Here is a fine example: Dog Bite Law by Kenneth Phillips. He limits his cases…
Those of us who do medical malpractice work are familiar with Occam’s Razor, the common understanding of which (as stated on Wikipedia) is that "of several acceptable explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest is preferable, provided that it takes all circumstances into account." Those of us who do medical malpractice…