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Use of Notes At Trial

 Winning Trial Advocacy Tips continues to be a great source of information for those of us who try cases.  This post, called "The Proper Use of Notes," does a fine job explaining...

Started in Day On Torts • 3 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: trial, proper use of notes at trial, trial advocacy skills
Physicians in the United States Less Likely to Use Health Information Technology

According to the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey, only 46 percent of U.S. doctors use electronic medical records, compared to 99 percent of doctors in the Netherlands and 97...

Started in Day On Torts • 22 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: 'technology, medical negligence, care", health, in
Writing Appellate Briefs

Jay O'Keeffe has written a nice article about appellate brief writing on DeNovo:  A Virginia Appellate Law Blog.  The article is titled " 10 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good...

Started in Day On Torts • 4 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: managing your practice, appellate practice, brief writing
Physicians in the United States Less Likely to Use Health Information Technology

According to the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey, only 46 percent of U.S. doctors use electronic medical records, compared to 99 percent of doctors in the Netherlands and 97...

Started in Day On Torts • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: 'technology, medical negligence, care", health, in
Memphis Lawyer Bites Nose of Hair Stylist in Restroom of Memphis Bar

Lawyer Mark Lambert , an attorney with the Cochran Firm in Memphis, has been sued by Greg Herbers, a Memphis hair stylist, over injuries Herbers says he received in an alteration with Lambert in...

Started in Day On Torts • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: miscellaneous, battery, defense', human biting human, liability for biting another person
New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Here is the best summary I have seen that describes  the recent changes to the FRCP.  The new rules  went into effect on December 1, 2009.  The summary was written by the...

Started in Day On Torts • 5 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: frcp, managing your practice, calculation of time, federal rules of civil procedure
Should You Call A Witness a Liar?

 Winning Trial Advocacy Tips has a great post on the subject of whether you should ever call a witness a liar. An excerpt:Because we’re lawyers, we don’t have any problems...

Started in Day On Torts • 6 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: trial, cross examination, is the witness lying
Court Imposes Sanctions for Failure To Follow Rules Concerning Citation to the Record

Yesterday I discussed a portion of the opinion S.C. Johnson and Son, Inc. v. Morris,   Appeal No. 2008AP1647  (Wis. Ct. App. Div. II Dec. 2, 2009)  concerning the assertion...

Started in Day On Torts • 7 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: civil procedure
Court Blocks Effort to Withdraw Fifth Amendment Assertion at Civil Trial

Defendant asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination throughout the discovery phase of a civil trial.  During the fourth week of trial he attempted to waive the privilege...

Started in Day On Torts • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: trial, fifth amendment in civil proceedings, withdrawal of fifth amendment in civil proceedings
Settlement Mills

A law professor at Stanford, Lora Freeman Engstrom, has written an article published in Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics  called "Run-of-the-Mill Justice."   Her  bio...

Started in Day On Torts • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: managing your practice, resolution of claims, settlement of claims
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