Weekly Articles

When you lose the internet and hear your Dad telling you his rolodex works better.

When you lose the internet and hear your Dad telling you his rolodex works better.

The Way My Mother Tells The Story

... we didn't catch that fish. The guy in the background did. Still, Dad did ...

Yeats: September 1913

What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add ...

Don’t Be So Easy On Yourself

Trying to sum up our risky business, my Dad used to quote President Nixon: "Failure ...

Song For The Walls

A lawyer is more than a mouthpiece. When it feels that nobody will ever hear ...

Gloryland

If you have friends in Gloryland Who left because of pain Thank God up there, ...

Chest Fever

And as my mind unweaves, I feel the freeze down on my knees. Chest Fever ...

Coal

And we'll keep on digging 'til the coming of the Lord Gabriel's trumpet sounds 'Cause ...

Temporary Like Achilles

Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them. Virgil Like all ...

‘Kindness’ Isn’t a Priority in Trial Lawyering and It Should Be

When I was coming up as a trial lawyer, I stayed hyper-focused on maintaining a ...

Daily Articles

My Successful Appeal of a Slander and Invasion of Privacy Claim

In the news: Ben Brody, a Jewish 22-year-old living in Los Angeles, has suffered harassment ...

Quality Fraud in Medicine is a Real Thing

And I keep track of it here on my blog. Just punch in #QualityFraud in ...

Atty’s Deposition Conduct Nets $19K In Sanctions

Lawyers need to effectively manage their emotions when things get heated. In transcripts of various ...

Yesterday was William Faulkner’s Birthday – Happy Day!

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice ...

Do Qualified Protective Orders Maintain the Privacy of PHI Related to the Claim?

I advise my clients that the pursuit of a medical malpractice claim involves waiving the ...

Peer Review Privilege is Boken: we’re going to keep chipping away state by state

#QualityFraud A Pennsylvania appellate court's recent ruling makes clear that a hospital's internal documents are ...

Today’s Word

Redolent Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of (something).

Med Mal Presuit Rules Can Be A Trap

Many states, like Florida, have presuit rules for medical malpractice cases, passed at the urging ...

Discovery of Hospital Incident Reporting and Peer Review Privilege

I have had cases like the one below with both anonymous and signed reports removed ...

A Difficult Case

I have litigated similar issues regarding the duty a hospital owes to relatives of a ...