Former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Penny White, former Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Joe Riley and I are sponsoring our annual "Justice Programs" seminars again this Fall. Here is the schedule for this two-day, fifteen-hour program. First Day 8:00 – 8:30 Registration 8:30 – 10:15 Tort Law / Comparative Fault…
I have been in Chicago for the last four days, attending the Board meeting of the National Board of Trial Advocacy and spending time with my son , MIchael. We saw the Cubs beat the Astros Saturday afternoon and took in a street fair in Chinatown yesterday. It was a…
The highest court of New York has ruled that a "high-low" agreement must be disclosed to the judge and to non-settling defendants. This is what the Court said: To ensure that all parties to a litigation are treated fairly, we hold that whenever a plaintiff and a defendant enter into…
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has released an en banc opinion in Murphy v. Internal Revenue Service, No. 05-5139 (July 3, 2007). The summary of the opinion as prepared by the Court: "Marrita Murphy brought this suit to recover income taxes she paid on the compensatory damages for emotional…
Put this is the "You ain’t gonna believe this" department. A New Jersey firm admitted "that an associate — with two partners’ knowledge — asked a bank representative whether a client, Kennedy Funding Inc. of Hackensack, could purchase the personal mortgages of the attorney suing Kennedy Funding in four federal…
i wrote several weeks ago about the lawsuit Robert Bork filed against the Yale Club. I mentioned that the some issues I had with the suit, including the request for punitive damages. Eric Turkewitz wrote a much better post than I. As a New York personal injury lawyer, he wrote…
You have undoubtedly heard about the lawsuit that was filed that claims that Starbursts are too chewy and caused an injury to a woman’s mouth. The plaintiff’s lawyer is Brian Muawad from St. Clair Shores, Michigan. He and his brother hold themselves out as competent in " Personal Injury, Auto…
You know the general rule: absent a special relationship, one person does not have a duty to come to the aid of another. You can see someone drowning, calling out for help, and simply walk by listening to your Ipod and taking a another lick of your Maggie Moo’s ice cream…
Walk into any courtroom in the state in any given week and there is a one-day trial underway in a soft tissue injury case. A defense lawyer is standing before the jury, waving a photograph of the plaintiff’s vehicle and saying "How can the plaintiff be hurt? The rear bumper…
The L.A. Times has written a major story on safety problems at U-Haul. An excerpt: "U-Haul, the nation’s largest provider of rental trailers, says it is "highly conservative" about safety. But a yearlong Times investigation, which included more than 200 interviews and a review of thousands of pages of court…