Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

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…

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I like everything professor of Cognitive Science George Lakoff (University of California, Berkley) writes. His latest book The Political Mind should be required reading for all trial lawyers. I am working on an outline of his ideas and will present some of them here in the future, but a few of the concepts follow. Most of our thought, an estimated 98%, is not conscious. It is below the level of consciousness. It what our brains are doing that we cannot…

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This posting is unusual because it involves law office management rather then plaintiff’s trial work. The reason is that oneof the lawyers who went through the Spence Trial College e-mailed me that he was taking the challenging step of opening his own law office and suggested I offer some information about it. I am hardly qualified since it has been over forty years ago that I borrowed money from a small town bank in the town where I was practicing…

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