There is no better way to spend a rainy day than update a book (or so says the dullest man in America). Day on Torts : A Handbook for Tennessee Tort Lawyers has been updated. Seven new cases have been added to "electronic pocket part" of the book. To update the …
Today I am in Memphis for the last of our fourth annual Justice Programs seminars. Former Justice Penny White, former Judge Joe Riley and I created a company to offer "annual review" type CLE and ethics for civil trial practioners and it has done great. We have a great crowd…
Updates to A Handbook for Tennessee Tort Lawyers – 2008 have been posted on the book’s website. The updates are available in the "free updates" section of the site. To utilize this service, simply scroll down to the relevant chapter and section and click on it to see if there are…
Read this heart-warming article by a doctor from Memphis as published in the November 12, 2007 Commercial Appeal. Thanks to Lang Wiseman from Memphis for alerting me to the article.
The book website is up and running — www.dayontortsbook.com. Several people received advance copies of the "selected cases" portion of the book and were kind enough to write down their impressions for me to use in a brochure that you will receive any day now. Those comments are as follows:…
This is an update on my new book, Day on Torts: A Handbook for Tennessee Tort Lawyers. The book has been printed and is being shipped today from Florida. I will have it Friday afternoon. I already have orders for the book and will start shipping on Monday. The new…
A judge responds in verse to a claim from a prisoner that he was not provided with a proper diet. The prisoner included a hard-boiled egg as an exhibit. Thanks to Trial Ad Notes for informing me of the Order.
Pacman Jones, a true embarrassment to Nashville, the Titans, the NFL, and his family, has been sued for his alleged misconduct in Las Vegas which is said to have resulted in the paralysis of a man. I do not pretend to know the facts, do not want to take one second of my life to learn…
I know you remember the Feres doctrine. The Feres doctrine comes from the decision in Feres v. United States, 71 S.Ct. 153 (1950) and provides that soldiers cannot sue the government for injuries that they incur as part of their military service. Not surprisingly, the doctrine has been asserted by government…
Penny White, Joe Riley and I are on the road again with our 4th annual 15-hour seminar program. Here is our schedule for each seminar: First Day 8:00 – 8:30 Registration 8:30 – 10:15 Tort Law / Comparative Fault 10:15 – 10:30 Break 10:30 – 11:30 Dealing with Difficult Judges…