I admit it: I am a fan of the Wall Street Journal. I have read it almost every week day since I was 19, and actually got chill bumps when they started a Saturday edition a couple of years ago. The editorial page makes me mad as hell every morning, but quite…
The goal of lawyers who represent plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits is to help the client. But sometimes the receipt of proceeds from a lawsuit can actually cost your client money. How can that be? If your client is receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the settlement…
I know that I have had several posts in the past few months that referenced the work of Paul Luvera, a highly-regarded plaintiff’s lawyer from Seattle. Here is another one – this time on the subject of settlement forms. Why do I cite his work? Quite frankly, I will cite…
Are you a subscriber to Tennessee Trial Law Report – Tort Law Edition? The January 2009 issue is now available. The January edition contains Part One of a three-part article on motions in limine as well as a listing of 29 cases currently pending before the Tennessee Supreme Court or the…
A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about use of PDF Portfolios to organize documents. The source for that post has recently given us access to an eseminar that he did on creating electronic closing binders using PDF technology – either PDF Binder or PDF Portfolio. The differences between the two programs are…
I have been doing some reading about Adobe Acrobat recently and came across this post about organizing documents using PDF Portfolios. I have not tried this method of document organization and, I confess, will probably ask one of our paralegals to look into it for our firm rather than attempting to…
The folks at Robert Half Legal did a survey of 300 attorneys among the largest law firms and corporations in the United States and Canada. All respondents had at least three years of experience in the legal field. Apparently, lawyers were asked, “If you could change one aspect of your…
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a successful plaintiff may recover paralegal fees in a case against the government covered by the Equal Access to Justice Act. Although not binding on Tennessee courts in those limited cases where attorneys’ fees are recoverable, the result can be used as…
Regular readers know that one web site I frequent is that of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel. Its "Hot Cases" section frequently has cases from other jurisdictions that I find interesting and its quarterly magazine has articles I enjoy reading. Here is an interesting article that discusses how to…
I have written on the subject of case selection on this blog in the past. Here is a link to an article on the subject that I had published recently in Trial magazine. (Available only to AAJ members). I gave a speech on this subject recently in Memphis and generally…