October 24, 2017
I really enjoy my visits to the Nation’s capitol.
The Jury’s Sense of the Thing
Two weeks ago, I ended a series of posts about the role of Senses in litigation (Taste, Touch, Smell, Sight, Hearing). About the time that I ended those, I ran across something even better. A real scientific explanation of what I was getting at – published in the Journal of Consumer Research. Here it is. So Close I Can […]
An Introduction to My Firm
With the help of my friends at M&M Multimedia, we made a series of videos to introduce my Firm and the basics of personal injury litigation. This is the first. Please visit the website to learn more.
The Weight
I pulled into Nazareth, was feeling ’bout half past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head Hey, mister, can you tell me, where a man might find a bed? He just grinned and shook my hand, “No” was all he said. The Band, The Weight In June of this year, […]
They Got A Name For The Winners In The World
His friends called him Colonel. And he died the other day in the town where he grew up – Parkersburg, West Virginia. John Pfalzgraf was a child of The Greatest Generation. He worked for banks and accounting firms throughout his life but was mostly known as a fighter pilot (Marine during Viet Nam and Air Force […]
Common Sense
My chosen profession has been under attack (literally) my entire professional life. The year I took the Florida Bar (1987), President George Herbert Walker Bush declared war on “tassled loafed lawyers” as he pushed for tort reform sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and other business and special interest organizations. His son, Jeb Bush, later […]
Law Day: The Fourteenth Amendment
President Eisenhower created Law Day in the United States for the first day of May. This year, the American Bar Association has chosen the theme of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution – the most cited and litigated provision in our Constitution. Passed in 1868 after the Civil War, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the freeing […]
Law Day 2017 (May 1, 2017)
The 14th Amendment: Transforming American Democracy
“Watch Me.” The Torch Passes – A Press Release.
H/T Sara Fitzpatrick Comito of Conric for her beautiful writing. Lawyer celebrates fulfillment of father’s legacy with landmark Supreme Court decision William deForest Thompson Jr. helped lay groundwork in healthcare consumer victory FORT MYERS, Fla. (Feb. xx, 2017) – Two years after the death of his father, Fort Myers attorney William deForest Thompson, Jr. is […]
Charles No. 3
After Florida voters overwhelmingly passed Amendment 7, the Florida’s Legislature tried to tear its heart out by passing Florida Statute Section 381.028 at the behest of their paymasters, the health industry. The Statute explicitly contradicted Amendment 7 by making the information available to consumers an industry secret again. Under the Statute, there was no way […]