Delay is pernicious. For many lawyers, it is a bit of a sign of success. You are too busy to get to even your most important cases because there are fires to be fought on other cases. My clients don’t care that I am successful or that I am over busy or that I am working on someone else’s case. …
WHAT MY CLIENTS GO THROUGH
Here is a typical scenario. Rick was driving his motorcycle to work at his job as a bookkeeper for an auto parts store. He had always liked motors and machines and loved riding a motorcycle on a nice sunny day. On this particular day, he was stopped at a red light on a small side road when a kid driving …
Blue Cross/Blue Shield is a bad corporate citizen for my clients
Imagine this situation happens to your friend, Sally Slipper. On a lovely spring day, Sally walked to a nearby bank on her lunch hour. She rarely took time for lunch from her job as an Administrative Assistant. As she was going to cross a busy intersection, she was watching traffic, the changing lights, and the blinking walk signs. Sally …
DO YOU DRIVE FOR UBER OR LYFT? DO YOU USE THESE SERVICES?
These days, you either works for these services or use them. It is very easy to get signed up to work for these services and even easier to use them. What happens when you or your driver are in a car accident? Well, regular car insurers have made it very clear that they will not cover the gig worker who …
LOST WAGES
So, you are driving your uber eats car along and you are hit by another car. What are your lost wages? Well, basically, you will have to show what your past uber eats wages are and that you are physically unable to work further. That is really hard to show unless you are undergoing surgery with persistent problems after surgery. …
WHAT MY CLIENTS GO THROUGH
I write a lot about the business of personal injury law. Today, I am going to write a little bit about things I don’t often write about and that is what my clients go through before and during their cases. Here are two examples: Sally is a new grandmother and very excited about her new role and spending time with …
No Free Bites
Dog bite cases trouble insurance companies because it is very hard to question the dog about his motives. I say his because I have never had a female dog bite a person. I’m sure it happens all the time, but not in my case files. Dogs can do a lot of damage or a little damage depending on the dog …
Regulators Waking Up To Persistent Negligent Conduct: Med Spas
Regulators recently posted warnings to the national community that many med spas were potentially dangerous to their customers. What is wrong with med spas? Well, if you go in for laser hair removal and there is no doctor monitoring what is going on or training the aestheticians, the potential for harm is higher than it needs to be. Do you …
COURT TRANSCRIPT
In the next week or so, I will be posting the three day bench trial transcript of a recent slip and fall trial I had. It should be on my website. This is a slip and fall case which occurred at a TSA checkpoint at PHL resulting in my client fracturing her knee and requiring surgery. Since both TSA …
MORE EFFICIENT LAWYERING: THE PRACTICE OF LAW POST-PANDEMIC
The pandemic wrought a lot of changes in the practice of law just like any other business that was affected in a significant way. Interestingly, the nature of litigators is to be averse to changes in how the court system functions. The pandemic familiarized everyone with zoom and it inadvertently made us a more efficient system. For example, I have …
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