Back around the time that the Occupy Movement was gaining steam, I traveled to Cleveland to depose a corporate lawyer about his work for a hoist manufacturer. I remember getting thrown out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for taking photos of the Cher exhibit for Missi. In my defense, however, it was […]
Lawyers are taught to be circumspect and cautious representing facts. I’m not going to do that here. Because I know better. So with apologies to old-timey practitioners, here is my reading of the Florida Supreme Court’s latest ruling saving consumers from the unrelenting pummeling of the healthcare delivery and insurance markets and their omnipresent and […]
The second in the video series on our website is a short introduction to what it means being a trial lawyer. Back in 2016, I posted a series of five ‘Why Am I A Trial Lawyer’ blogs highlighting my own influences, beginning with this one. Now, we’ve made a video to accompany those posts and put […]
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 […]
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 fifth – and mercifully final – in the series of blogs about how the Senses play out in litigation. I confess – I am at a loss on this one. But having given myself the task, I am determined to complete it. To state the obvious, there aren’t a lot of cases in my […]
The fourth in a series about the Senses in litigation. The sense of touch is varied and wondrous. Through touch, we appreciate temperature, texture of surface, shape, hardness or softness, elasticity and even weight. Touch is the one sense used from the beginning to the end of a personal injury case. Investigating cases I’ve sifted through roadway debris, patrolled junk […]
This is the third (of five) ‘Sense’ posts (Click here for ‘Seeing’ from two weeks ago) on how litigation unfolds, according to our five senses. These were interrupted by Hurricane Irma. The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. – Thalassa Cruso […]
As the Judge took the bench and the bailiff told the room filled with lawyers to sit, she asked with a wry smile, “How many here had a shower today?” Pretrial conferences gather all the lawyers in all of the cases scheduled for trial before the Judge in a particular month. I’ve never heard that […]
The birds knew better. They left ahead the storm. Along with the strange Saturday afternoon cloud formations pushing downriver, this was our prelude to Irma: lifeless air, unadorned with the songs that usually come at the end of a long, hot day. The anti-Opener. Living near the Everglades, it is easy to imagine the natural world reclaiming […]
