There are a good number of you folks – almost 50 of you every workday – who check this blog before 8:00 a.m. I typically get up between 4:00 and 4:30 and do my daily post first thing in morning, so some of you have come to expect that I…
Well, the 2006 TTLA Convention is over. As I mentioned earlier this week, Gary Gober did a great job organizing the speakers for the event. Many of you came up to me at the various meetings and parties and expressed your appreciation for my work on this blog. I truly…
As I mentioned in a post last weekend, our firm had three cases going to trial this week. John Branham and Brandon Bass settled their personal injury case Tuesday morning right around the time for closing argument. They obtained a great result in a case in which no money was…
As you undoubted know if you are a regular reader of this blog, we represent plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases. We average almost three calls per business day from prospective medical malpractice plaintiffs; our screening process weeds out 98% of those calls and therefore we file less than 20 of…
“Are we negotiating or are we telling the truth?” That’s a quote from a defense lawyer friend of mine made while we were trying to resolve a medical malpractice case. I have used it many times over the years. The American Bar Association has issued a Formal Ethics Opinion recognizing…
The doctors have been claiming that there are shortages in the numbers of physicians and that the shortage is due to laws which hold doctors accountable for negligence that causes harm to patients. (You know, just as if they were truck drivers or other real people.) Well, yesterday’s Los Angeles…
It is going to be a busy week at Branham & Day. John Branham and Brandon Bass are trying a two-day personal injury case starting Monday morning in Gallatin. I start (what hopefully will be only) a three-day arbitration in a commercial case Tuesday – we have eleven notebooks of…
Lay and Skilling have been found guilty of multiple crimes that contributed to the fall of Enron and the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value. How much time should these men spend in prison? I know little about the federal sentencing guidelines. But I think back…
OK, so it is a compromise and settlement of a divorce case. The fact remains that the law of compromise and settlement in Tennessee has been in disarray and the Tennessee Supreme Court has taken a step in the right direction to get it fixed. In Barnes v. Barnes, No.…
Here is part one of the speech everyone has been talking about. Here is part two.