I’m a great believer that lawyers must use a checklist for every deposition they take no matter how experienced they are. If seasoned airplane pilots use checklists, lawyers should too. It’s too easy to get side tracked during a deposition and forget some area of questioning. What follows is an example of a verybasic and simplistic outline for the deposition of an eye witness in a damage case. I take an outline like this and revise it by adding areas…
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…
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…