Articles Posted in Miscellaneous

Have you ever been struggling with an evidence issue and wanted to avoid standing up to grab a copy o fthe Federal Rules of Evidence? Here is a copy. And here is a copy of the Tennesse rules. Guess what I have been doing this morning.

"What duty  does an HIV-positive individual have to avoid transmitting the virus? What level  of awareness should be required before a court imposes a duty of care on an HIVpositive  individual to avoid transmission of the virus? What responsibility does the victim have to protect himself or herself against possible…

A website has been launched that will help doctors and the public identify patients and lawyers who filed medical malpractice cases. Here is a nice summary: "The LitiPages.com Attorney Database allows victims of medical malpractice to screen prospective attorneys and, if they so choose, avoid lawyers who consistently fail to…

The Tennessean reports that the new federal courthouse in Nashville will be named for Senator Frist. The same Senator Frist who has repeated tried to keep medical malpractice victims from being able to access to the civil justice system. The same Senator Frist who, after diagnosising Terry Schaivo via videotape,…

This was another interesting day at the ATLA Convention. This morning I went to a breakfast featuring Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR).  He gave a good talk, not particularly dynamic but very informative and given with obvious conviction.  Senator Smith’s remarks included telling us about the relatively recent suicide of his son, a…

I am in Seattle at the ATLA Convention.  I arrived here last Thursday.  I spent Friday and Saturday doing board work for the National Board of Trial Advocacy and Sunday morning meeting with a group of lawyers on a case that we are working on together.  I finally got the…

Here is a list of those starting with the letter "A": AAMA American Architectural Manufacturers Association AAMA American Apparel Manufacturers Association AAMI Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation AAMVA American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators AASHTO American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials AATCC American Association of Textile Chemists…

LexBlog provides us various types of service  for our four blogs.  Yesterday they upgraded our software and therefore we couldn’t blog until the end of the day.   And by the end of the day (I left the office at 6:00, came back at 7:45 and left at 9:15) I was ready…

I am happy to report that this blog has reached the 750-post milestone. The blog began in February, 2005 and has grown to appoximately 500 unique vistors per business day (only a couple hundred on weekends). The experience has been a very positive one. It takes me back to the…

I am at my cabin right now struggling with problems with the “internets.”