Paul Luvera writes a blog post about cross-examining experts based on a presentation he heard in New Orleans from a Florida lawyer named Dorothy Clay Sims (now famous from the Casey Anthony trial). The post is worth reading if you are a personal injury lawyer cross-examining an expert. I also…
I mentioned in a blog post last week that I monitored the conviction of the at-fault driver in a wrongful death car accident case that I have. The case was in District Court in Essex. Judge Martha Russell presided over the case. She’s a new judge and a good one…
The Insurance Journal reports a rise in legal malpractice claims. Incredibly, there has been no hand wringing about increased malpractice rates for lawyers or fears that lawyers can no longer keep their practices open as their insurance rates rise. We have never had a legal malpractice claim yet our rates…
An Illinois court awarded $2.5 million in a lawsuit against a truck driver who admittedly (1) crossed the median strip and hit the Plaintiff and (2) had been driving for 19 hours that day. Obviously, and the result underscores this point, this is a tough case to defend on liability.…
On our website, we have sample depositions in car and truck accident, medical malpractice, and product liability cases. The purpose of these sample deposition transcripts is to help lawyers who are taking a similar deposition and for victims who are trying to certain the type of personal injury deposition questions…
Sometimes, I think personal injury lawyers – myself included – subconsciously think we know better than the client in terms of what damages they have that really matter to a jury. But we often get it wrong. More often than not, what is in the client’s heart will also be…
Besides Kearney v. Berger, there was another interesting opinion that came down from Maryland’s appellate courts yesterday. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled on an interesting discovery issue in a landlord-tenant case that has implications for Maryland personal injury lawyers. The underlying case is a dispute between Checkers –…
The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned a $31 million verdict in a Ford rollover case stemming from a catastrophic accident in 2001 that caused brain damage to a 12-year-old boy. This was a hard case. A mother was driving with four children who were not wearing seat belts and the…
Paul Luvera offers on his blog a good checklist (sorry, link now broken) for preparing a case for trial. Paul points out that checklists – seemly obvious things that have probably been around since man was carving into stone – have received renewed interest in other fields, most notably in medicine…
The Legal Intelligencer has a pretty comprehensive article about how to frustrate, annoy, and pry into a plaintiff’s Facebook activity. In a malpractice or car accident case, the primary purpose of Facebook discovery is to show that the plaintiff is not as injured as claimed in the lawsuit or in…