Over 100 “5 Star Reviews”Mediation–The 3 Important Things to Remember
The 3 most important things to know about Mediation–the alternative to expensive trials. 1st Never give away your entire case in the first hour of mediation. Mediation is a process that usually takes the entire day. A lot of times what happens during the first five or six hours of mediation are unimportant. It’s when […]
Attorney Doubles Down on Stupidity
In any personal injury case, there is one person who is in charge of how a trial is run. That person of course is the trial judge. An attorney may not like the trial judge. She may think the trial judge is stupid or biased against her. But one thing is for sure. When the […]
$18 Million Dollars and the 2 Words Insurance Companies Fear
In my experience, most insurance companies do NOT fear going to trial. And it doesn’t matter to them who the opposing counsel is. They have very competent attorneys they pay $$$ to to defend their cases. If they know approximately what a jury is going to give for a certain type of injury, they just […]
Making a Murderer—Your Opinion
Making a Murderer has captured the imagination of many Americans. The Netflix storyline, in part, is about an accused individual named Steven Avery of Wisconsin who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Lets not focus on the fact he was railroaded. He was. Lets consider the issue of eyewitness misidentification. The question […]
I Want to Give You $52,000–Here is how..
Want to win $52,000 and give the finger to police officers in the process? Here’s how. Incredibly 2 Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City have collected $52,000 from New York City in a free speech rights case. According to The New York Daily News and the New York Post the 2 individuals flipped […]
The “affluenza” teenager’s attorney double downs his bet!
The attorney for the”affluenza” teenager is implying that his client was FORCED against his will to leave the country and go to Mexico. Do you buy it? More importantly will the judge hearing the case agree with this argument? It is a risky strategy to say the least. Consider this article from the Legal Intelligencer: Did […]
The Pittsburgh Steelers and a Legal Question
Before I get started on Monday’s blog, I want to express what most Pittsburghers feel today. Yes we wish the Steelers were going to the Super Bowl. Yes it was very hard to watch other teams play this weekend. But the thing that I am most impressed with concerning the Pittsburgh Steelers is there absolute […]
NTSB Wants to Lower Drunk Driving Level From .08 to .05
Well this legal issue is bound to generate a whole lot of controversy. The current level for drunk driving in Pennsylvania is .08. The National Transportation Safety Board, a federal agency, wants to lower that level to .05. Their reasoning is quite simple. They claim that lowering the level to .05 will save lives. They claim that […]
An Open and Shut Medical Malpractice Case?
A few days ago we signed up a medical malpractice case. A woman went in to a Pittsburgh hospital to have a relatively simple surgical procedure done. She was having a neurotransmitter placed in to her spine to provide pain relief. The doctor who performed the surgery apparently nicked a bone or vein during the […]
Passing the Bar Exam– a Rite of Passage
I read a recent article talking about the pass rate for the Pennsylvania Bar Exam. The gist of the article was that the pass rate in Pennsylvania was down from what it normally is. Any lawyer who has taken and passed the bar exam can relate to this. When my son Kevin was waiting for his […]