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RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT REPRESENTING PLAINTIFFS

RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT REPRESENTING PLAINTIFFS

This is a mixing bowl of unconnected ideas about our work. It’s a summary of some recent E-mail exchanges I’ve had with  other plaintiff’s lawyers about different subjects  under discussion and my general reading. How do We  Make  Decisions? I’ve written a lot about this subject but in Tuesday’s edition of the this  week’s New York Times there was an article about how people  make medical decisions regarding their health care. It was based, in part on medical journal articles…

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TRIAL ASSISTANT INSTRUCTIONS

TRIAL ASSISTANT INSTRUCTIONS

When I was a young lawyer in the small town of Mount Vernon, Washington I would sometimes fly to places for legal work as the quickest way to get there. Just outside town there was a narrow dirt air strip right along a standing field of corn on one side and a drainage canal on the other. The local pilot who flew the farms for spraying the fields had his planes there and one was a small two seater he…

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THE STRUGGLE OF BEING A CAREGIVER

THE STRUGGLE OF BEING A CAREGIVER

Many of us have represented the parents of a brain injured or disabled child, a person whose spouse is paralyzed or a loved one with disabling injuries. While we have a certain medical knowledge about the consequences of the injuries to the injured person injuries are not confined to just the person who was injured. They also involve everyone connected to the circle around the injured person. That includes caregivers as well as the injured person and other uninjured family members….

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