Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

I read that the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association is studying a possible change of its name. When the American Trial Lawyers Association decided to change its name to American Association for Justice,somestate trial organizations began to make the same kind of changes to their names. California was one of the largest to do so. There is no question but that a brand or name has an impact on people’s impressions. That’s exactly why Karl Rove and other Republican advisers…

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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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