Openings and Closings
- Lawyers Referrals in Car Accident Cases: How to Keep from or Explain to a Jury
The Accident and Injury Lawyer Blog has a post on a issue that troubles many accident lawyers in our smallerMore...
- Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College
I read an interesting wire service article in the Maryland Daily Record today on Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College. GivenMore...
- What Should Trial Lawyers Wear for Trial?
There is an article today in the “Maryland Daily Record” titled, “Beware of Bow Ties and Diamonds in Court.” IMore...
Presentation
- Trial Presentation Tip of the Day
The last auto tort case I tried involved a car accident involving a car that pulled out of a gasMore...
- Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College
I read an interesting wire service article in the Maryland Daily Record today on Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College. GivenMore...
- What Should Trial Lawyers Wear for Trial?
There is an article today in the “Maryland Daily Record” titled, “Beware of Bow Ties and Diamonds in Court.” IMore...
Questioning
- Dealing with Translators in Depositions
As information technology and the new economy continues to shrink the size of the world, I'm regretting not learning aMore...
- Direct Examination: The Sponsorship Theory
The more cases I try and the more I read about trial strategy techniques and tactics, the more I realizeMore...
- Tips on Defending Personal Injury Depositions
Too many personal injury lawyers view properly preparing their clients for their depositions as an unskilled part of theirMore...
Case Work up
- Trucking: Motor Carrier Book Free For the Asking
My friends Joe Fried, Buck Rogers and Mike Goldberg have an Atlanta, GA based law firm that litigates trucking cases.More...
- Good Question in All Expert Witness Depositions
The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog has a blog post last week suggesting a question to pose to experts: "What isMore...
- Avoiding Asked and Answered Objections
The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog offers a tip on avoiding asked and answered objections in depositions: "The deposition has nowMore...
Medical Information
- Workers' Compensation, MSP Compliance, and Some Strategy
If you are like most Workers’ Compensation Claimant attorneys, your desk and files are crammed with cases that are leftMore...
- Chantix: Reports of More Serious Side Effects
The Wall Street Journal Health blog reports that more than 100 traffic or personal injury incidents have been linked toMore...
- Medtronic Lead Recall: More Problems on the Horizon
Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Defibrillator Lead wires may cause greater risk to Medtronic defibrillator patients than was originally thought when MedtronicMore...
Case Specific Ideas
- Should You Bring Your Expert Witnesses Live to Trial?
There is no question that, all other things being equal, live witnesses are more interesting than videotaped depositions. It isMore...
- Litigating Spinal Cord and Brain Injury pt. 5
LOSS OF CONSORTIUM Loss of consortium is finally recognized in most jurisdictions. In lay terms, loss of consortium or “traumaMore...
- Litigating Spinal Cord and Brain Injury pt. 4
LIFE CARE PLAN Spinal cord injury cases necessitate the retention of a life care planner. This specialist is taxed withMore...
Settlement / Mediation
- Workers' Compensation, MSP Compliance, and Some Strategy
If you are like most Workers’ Compensation Claimant attorneys, your desk and files are crammed with cases that are leftMore...
- Preparing Your Client for Mediation
In many ways, lawyers in personal injury cases should prepare for mediation in the same manner we prepare for trial,More...
- Three Times Specials
If anything drives me crazy, it is phrases like "three times specials." Smart personal injury lawyers avoid this kind ofMore...
Practice of Law
- Are Your Backing Up Your Personal Injury Computer Files?
Backup of firm data is another important component to your data storage plan. Recent disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, emphasizeMore...
- Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog Post on Building a Referral Network for Malpractice and Injury Lawyers
I wrote a blog post this morning on the Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on how to build a network ofMore...
- Lawyers and Facebook
Dave Swanner, the co-founder of the Trial Lawyer Resource Center, has a blog post this month on his much praisedMore...
Post-Settlement Issues
- Making sense of Medicare set-asides
The world of Medicare Set Asides can be very complex, however you are correct in your assumption that since yourMore...
- Medicare Liens: Can Personal Injury Lawyers Do Anything About Them?
In a perfect world, personal injury lawyers could just get the best possible recovery for their clients, either by settlementMore...
- Be Careful of Prescription Allocations on MSA's
When settling a case (mainly workers comp) with a MSAT' (Medicare Set Aside Trust), a number of allocators are calculatingMore...
Themes and Framing
- Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College
I read an interesting wire service article in the Maryland Daily Record today on Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College. GivenMore...
- Loss of Consortium Part II: How to Apportion
After my blog post on Friday on loss of consortium damages, I received the following comment from "Florida Lawyer" thatMore...
- Loss of Consortium Claims
I was reading David Ball's book on damages last night. His comments on loss of consortium claims really rang trueMore...
Guest Posts
- Why a Personal Injury Lawyer's Track Record Matters
This is a guest post from Miller & Zois personal injury lawyer Laura G. Zois. Most of our law practiceMore...
- Attorney Richard Shapiro's Site: Retinopathy of Prematurity
Richard Shapiro is a nationally renowned lawyer who has devoted his life’s work to helping the victims of medical mistakes.More...
- Attitude is Everything
Another guest post from Howard Spiva of the Spiva Law Group. Howard is currently the President of the Southern TrialMore...
Forms
- Trucking Interrogatories
Brian Parker - a young lawyer working in Mark Zamora's law offices in Atlanta submits these Trucking Interrogatories: INTERROGATORIESMore...
- Sample Forms
This is a sample post so that the category will show up. This will be deleted once we start postingMore...
Appearances and Announcements
- Litigating Auto Accident Cases: Slaying the Insurance Beast
My partner, Laura G. Zois, fellow Trial Lawyer Resource Center blogger John F. Romano, and other invited faculty, will beMore...
- Winter Speaking Engagements for Matt Garretson
November 25-December 2, 2006 - The Consumer Attorneys of California will once again be convening in Maui, Hawaii. I willMore...
- Fall Appearances for Dave Swanner
October 12-14, Colorado Springs, Colorado - The Settlement Institute. I'll be attending a great seminar on dealing with insurance thatMore...
Miscellaneous
- Acetaminophen News and Warnings
Rick Kuykendall notes this week's news: The Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) met June 29More...
- Life Investors of America, Transamerica, Monumental: Class Action: Deadline Upcoming
From Attorney Joey James: Our firm is currently representing consumers who have cancer insurance policies with Life Investors InsuranceMore...
- Georgia: First Hydroxycut Lawsuit Filed in State Court
(From Rick Kuykendall) My friends Mark Zamora and Joey James have filed a State Court Hydroxycut lawsuit against the makers,More...













