AAJ’s upcoming seminar Litigating Medical Negligence and Injured Infant Cases, April 9–10 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, will provide the newest strategies and techniques on how to get justice for those who need it the most. To register and learn more, visit www.justice.org/education/medneg or call AAJ Education at 800-622-1791 or 202-965-3500,…
AAJ’s upcoming seminar Growing on the Vine: Maximizing Profitability in Changing Times (cosponsored by AAJ’s Sole Practitioner and Small Firm Section) is about the business of running a successful law practice. The program is taking place April 9–10 at Caesars Place in Las Vegas. Program highlights include “Controlling Cost and…
Former ATLA President Howard Twiggs has died. Funeral services are today. Howard has been a friend for over 25 years and was a leader in the plaintiff’s trial bar and his community. I first met Howard at a NCATL seminar in Chapel Hill, NC when I was still a…
Trey Mills is angry at Allstate. He explains why on his South Carolina Injury Law Journal blog.
My daughter was hurt in a soccer game because the ref refused to reign in a reckless player on the opposing team. Can I sue? My son is devastated because he was improperly called out on strikes by a blind umpire. Can I sue? Setting aside the merits of these…
The Tennessee Adult Protection Act, T. C. A. Sec. 71-6-101 et seq, creates civil action for compensatory and, as appropriate, punitive damages when "adults" covered by the act are victims of abuse or neglect, sexual abuse or exploitation and for theft of money or property whether by fraud, deceit, coercion or otherwise. Those covered…
As a Tennessee injury lawyer I receive calls from time to time from parents of children who have been injured by a foster parent. Indeed, several years ago our firm represented a parent of a pregnant teenager who was killed as a result of careless driving by her foster parent.…
Check out this commercial. I don’t think this type of advertising would impact the lawyer’s credibility before the average Texas jury. Do you?
Work is underway on the third edition of Day on Torts: A Handbook for Tennessee Tort Lawyers. Laura Bishop and I have already identified over 30 new sections that need to be added to the book, as well as citations to well over 200 new cases. If you have come…
Some of you heard me rant about West Publishing Company during the recent Justice Programs seminar. Well, here are a couple great posts about West’s pollution of the blawgosphere. The controversy arose when Findlaw launched "The New York Personal Injury Law Blog" years after a wonderful blog by the same…