I love a good mink story. According to the New York Post, some animal activist released 6,000 mink from a mink farm in PA. I know next to nothing about mink or minks. What I do know is that mink farming forms the basis for one of the pivotal cases in nuisance law. I always have a few nuisance cases …
Influencers Gone Crazy / How it Affects the Law of Evidence:
It is getting harder and harder to trust anything online these days. Be careful what you read or consume is just no longer possible. To be fooled is easy for all of us. If you are somewhat attuned to the social media world, like I am at 55 years old, it is easy to miss fakes, deepfakes, photoshops etc. I …
How Much Does The Personal Injury Client Affect Settlement and Deposition Preparation?
It matters a lot. Are you a Roger Federer type or Novak Djokovic? Some people are just very genuine, approachable, and likeable people. Others are not. Most of us are somewhere in between. But, those likeable guileless people are going to get a better settlement for the same case. Why? Well, more than likely the deposition displayed the plaintiff as …
What happens When You Win a Motion for Summary Judgment or What I did this weekend on my way to Tenerife?
Tenerife you say? I had a chance to go visit the Canary Islands over the Labor Day holiday weekend and Tenerife is one of the largest and most visited islands in the chain. It’s a long but entertaining story. Anyway, the Islands are a bit like Europe’s Caribbean, I think. Beautiful, volcanic islands off the coast of Africa and …
The Trump Situation: One Case Is Usually Too Much for your average client.
Again, regardless of your political position, as a lawyer, it is simply incomprehensible to think of a single client trying to handle all of these different, bet the farm type cases going on in the same calendar year. Many of my clients are normal, everyday folk, who work for a living, raise their families, support their kids and parents, go …
Here is an Un-Triable Case: So, what do you do here?
In February, 2022, your client, a New York man was hit by a Volkswagen driven by a woman, which allegedly left your client with severe injuries. He became the plaintiff. The case is ongoing in the New York Court system. The man had filed three or four prior motor vehicle cases in the past ten years. That does not make …
Medical Malpractice: Easy vs. Tough Calls
Some cases are easy to understand and some require research and expert opinions. All malpractice cases in Pennsylvania require that I obtain a certificate of merit from a doctor with a specialty in the appropriate area of medicine. Generally, I prefer a clean, clear set of injuries and damages. What sort of cases are ones that I take vs. turn …
Motions in Limine and Products Liability
I am getting ready to go to trial on a products liability case involving a wire cup brush that removes paint from metal. A piece of metal shot off the brush and impaled my client in the eye blinding him. He had taken off his safety glasses to check his progress and restarted the device before replacing them on his …
Things to Know
The Trump Show: I am going to sit down and read the trump indictments this weekend just to say I read them. Favorite Song of the Summer: Benee’s Song: Green Honda (watch it below). Get a Microphone!: If you participate in Zoom calls and are required to speak, please get a good microphone for your computer. I use a mic …
Lawyer as Negative Feedback Loop and The Fair Share Act
I view myself as a professional vengeance machine. The penance or vengeance I get is in money terms and never quite the revenge people wanted and rarely ever complete, but it is a form of retribution. What do I mean? If someone crashes their car into you and hurts you or your family or just simply postpones maintenance until someone …