A defense firm has been threatened with severe sanctions for allegedly engaging in a pattern of fraudulently removing cases from state court to federal court in Louisiana. Sanctions on the table? Not only a financial penalty but also also barring members of the firm from practicing in federal court. Here…
Here is the most recent version of the practice guidelines for obstetric anesthesia as prepared by a task force of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Evan Shaeffer linked me to a great post in the (new) legal writing blog and I quickly determined that I needed to pass it on to you. Raymond Ward from the Big Easy writes about writing. His post, "Owning your downloaded legal authorities," has some great ideas, including the recommendation that cases from electronic…
I know I did a post on this subject a couple of weeks ago, linking to a site that had some techniques to help lawyers avoid malpractice claims. But here is another site with yet another handy list of fourteen ways to avoid a claim. A sample taken directly from the site: …
A motion in limine to prevent your adversary from performing magic tricks in closing argument? Read all about it here from the Litigation and Trial Blog.
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued the opinion in Wyeth v. Levine, the product liability case against the manufacturer of Phenergan. Wyeth appealed from an adverse jury verdict saying that Levine’s failure-to–warn claims were pre-empted by federal law because Phenergan’s label was approved by the FDA. The USSC held that federal…
Lawyer and cartoonist David Mills shares his craft on Courtoons. An example: I confess to extreme jealously of lawyers who have talent is any aspect of the world of art or music.
This post from the New York Attorney Malpractice Blog includes the full text of an article from New York Lawyer titled "Legal Malpractice Cases May Surge as the Economy Tanks." The article says that " [a] recent American Bar Association (ABA) study that looked at legal malpractice claims filed between…
The March 2009 edition of the Tennessee Trial Law Report is in the mail. This edition includes a summary of 20 different cases addressing various aspects of the law of torts, civil procedure, evidence and trial as decided by Tennessee appellate courts between January 15 and February 15, 2009. The…
Here is an animation of the crash of US Airways 1549 landing in the Hudson River prepared by Scene Systems. The simulation includes the audio from the pilot and air traffic control. Scene Systems creates animations for litigation of all types.