Gerry Spence and I are in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We’ve been here since Saturday for a week of traveling around with our cameras and taking photos. He is a professional photographer and I am not, but we both enjoy photography. Since there are only the two of us, we have spent a lot of time talking about a lot of subjects. Of course, law is the primary one. The trial approach of the Gerry Spence Trial College is unique from…
A few weeks ago I found a book of poems, Poems of Pleasure, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox in a small book store in Port Townsend, WA. I was prowling around the shelves of old books when my eye caught this book. Originally published in 1888 this book had the name Graci E. Merrill August 24, 1921 written in an elegant penmanship inside the cover.I like Wilcox’s poetry so I bought this book which I had not seen before. One poem…
My friend Dennis Donnelly, a great plaintiff’s trial lawyer from New Jersey, sent me a message aboutJohn McCain’s answer to an inquiryfrom the New England Journal of Medicine’s aboutmedical reform.Here is McCain’s answer.Any Plaintiff’s trial lawyer voting in this election should carefully read what he said: "Our tort system is an invitation to endless, frivolous lawsuits bytrial lawyers who exploit patients and physicians alike. I understandthat the fear of lawsuits not only forces doctors to perform unnecessarytests but also often…