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Month: May 2016

COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER ADVICE APPLIES TO TRIAL LAWYERS

COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER ADVICE APPLIES TO TRIAL LAWYERS

We’ve just returned from a twenty one day Four Seasons tour of some 25,000 miles of  flying to to seven  countries  around  the world. As a  result, I’ve  neglected this blog, but I’m back to work even if jet lagged. Today I’d like to share some  wisdom a column I  read in the Boston Globe by Thomas Farragher Thomas.farragher@globe.com. He wrote it  complaining about long winded commencement speakers, but thought his observations were equally applicable to us as trial lawyers. He…

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HOW DO YOU EVALUATE DAMAGES FOR A CHILD SHOULDER DYSTOCIA CASE?

HOW DO YOU EVALUATE DAMAGES FOR A CHILD SHOULDER DYSTOCIA CASE?

I was asked to explain how I would go about deciding the right way to approach damages in a case involving a child who suffered shoulder dystocia at birth. Here is a rough summary of my process. Here is what  I told the lawyer. While this is my viewpoint, Perhaps it may stimulate some  ideas for you Rid your mind and your thinking right now about other verdicts in cases like this. Your case is not controlled by the results of some other…

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