President Obama hasn’t been a resident at the White House so long that we forget how President Bush gave us ammo for our occasional Sunday Spoof. Here is one from February 5, 2006 titled "President Bush: Lawyers to Blame for Lack of Krispy Kreme Stores."
We have some preliminary data on the number of medical malpractice case filings in certain counties since the October 1, 2009 effective date of the medical malpractice notice and certificate of good faith statutes. One new statute requires that actual notice be given to defendants in med mal cases before a lawsuit is filed. …
Ken Shigley at the Atlanta Injury Law Blog wrote this interesting post where he advises consumers who have suffered a tragic accident what they should do if they are solicited by lawyer. Ken offers this advice: If you are solicited about your injury or death case, you may consider doing…
All weekend I heard the drone of certain business reporters and various members of the Republican Party that President Obama was responsible for the declines in the stock market over the last six weeks. Well, the market went up 5.8% yesterday. Should the President get the credit for that increase? Of…
Both the federal courts and Tennessee state courts have strict rules about the types of inquiry that can be made into a jury’s verdict. The general rules for impeaching a jury verdict are set forth in Rule 606(b) of the rules of both systems and in a relatively few number…
An article by Jeff Woods at Nashville Scene: The nursing home industry is back at the legislature this session demanding a law to cap its liability in Tennessee courts for neglecting and abusing residents. That’s even though a legislative study committee, which met once after last year’s bill failed,…
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: …