Sometimes it’s important to go back to basics and remember we are not just involved in some high stakes game, but are representing people. People who are entitled to justice. “Money makes the world go around,the world go around, the world go around,Money makes the world go around, it makes the world go around” From the musical Cabaret “The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees Now give me the money,…
I don’t know if you "blackboard" your damages for argument or not. I do. I like to break them down between past and future as well as by elements and assign a dollar value to each. I’m reproducing an outline from an Idaho case I tried. The case involved birth injuries to a child as well as parental claims. The first outline is that for the child using Idaho elements of damage that were the law when I tried the case. The second…
Have you thought what pain really means? When our clients talk about their pain what do we understand about what they are going through? Here are fewbrief ideas about what pain really is: Nazis: when nazis wanted a man to talk they didn’t take his house, or his investment portfolio or confiscate his pension- they took his fingernails Sacrifice anything to avoid pain: We are willing to sacrifice anything to avoid pain. A mother would hock her wedding ring to…