Happy new year everybody. Hope everybody enjoyed their holiday and is now raring to get back to work. Just to give everybody a heads up, the week of January 28 and February 3 may not see a blog entry for me at all. During those two weeks, I will be testifying in two different trials

Before getting started on our blog entry of the week, good luck to the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals in the World Series starting tonight. Turning to the blog entry of the week, I really really struggled with what to blog on this week. It wasn’t for lack of cases in my pipeline, I

I have a few cases in my pipeline, but there was never any question as to what this week’s blog entry was going to be on. Considering that the House of Representatives passed HR 620 and the Internet has lit up with it, blogging on HR 620 was the only choice for this week. As

Over the last couple of months, I have received this phone call close to once a week. So, I thought I should write a preventive law approach to dealing with this. The situation goes like this: potential client owns a small business/restaurant/shopping mall and is worried about fending off a serial plaintiff either presently or

As is my practice, I have divided this blog entry into four parts: the facts of the case; the issues; the court’s reasoning; and the takeaways. Feel free to read some or all of the blog entry.

Consider the following:

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Facts:

Person has a favorite restaurant. Subsequently, he is involved in an accident and