Over 100 “5 Star Reviews”The Battle for the Supreme Court Has Begun
Allow me to begin today’s blog by offering my sincere condolences to the family of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who died over the weekend. He was a giant in the area of American jurisprudence for 30 years. Scalia was appointed by former Pres. Ronald Reagan because of his conservative beliefs which he held […]
Attorney Loses Custody Case and Why I Don’t Do Family Law
Happy Valentine’s Day! After I left the District Attorney’s Office about a 100 years ago I was hired at a personal injury law firm. I knew absolutely nothing about injury law. So I started asking partners there about advice concerning cases. Herb Lurie, now deceased, gave me some of the best legal advice I ever […]
Roll the Dice and Pay the Price-Insurance Co Loses Big
As you know, recently I did a video on motorcycle accidents. I mentioned that motorcycle victims often suffer catastrophic injuries because they do not have the protection that a car provides. Today I saw that a Philadelphia jury awarded $3.1 million in a wrongful death and survival damages case to the estate of a motorcycle […]
A Real Bad High – Low Agreement
Last month,a Philadelphia jury awarded $500,000 to a man who was injured when he was hit by a car crossing a street in Philadelphia. The 19-year-old suffered an open fracture of his left ankle. He had to have surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He had plates and screws put in his ankle during […]
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 […]