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Here’s an email exchange I believe should be helpful to a lot of you out there. This is a situation where a debt collector contacts a consumer after serving a summons on the consumer for a very old debt, one likely past the statute of limitations. As with all business dealings, DON’T PAY ANYTHING UNLESS AND UNTIL THEY SHOW YOU THE PAPERWORK TO PROVE THAT THE DEBT IS WITHIN THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, AS WELL AS THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF T... Read More

My firm handles a lot of personal injury litigation, so, at the suggestion of friends and former clients, I am writing this blog on a regular basis to give readers info on how to handle their personal injury cases. I will go over several topics. My topic for the first post is: “Go Organic!” By “organic”, I am not referring to changing your eating habits when you have a personal injury claim pending. Rather, it is an observ... Read More

The role of a court reporter is to maintain an accurate record of word for word transcripts of conversations, legal proceedings, meetings, and other circumstances requiring a documented account that will serve as legally binding evidence. Court reporters can be found working at court trials, providing translation services for the hearing impaired, assisting judges, recording depositions, and assisting attorneys. With the emergence of new advancem... Read More

As a worker, you have the right to a safe and healthy working environment. Unfortunately, work-related accidents can occur to any worker at any time. If you happen to be the one who will suffer from such an accident as a result of management’s negligence, you should be pleased to know that you are entitled to work accident claims which your employer has an obligation to settle. Then again, your employer may not give you the right amount you... Read More

A winter wonderland may be fun to sing about–especially on Christmas eve–but, if you are negotiating a treacherous parking lot covered with ice, bursting into song is the last thing on your mind. Slipping on ice is no laughing matter and, although falls may be funny in some slapstick type comedies, they can be downright deadly in real life. To mind comes the case of diet founder Robert Atkins who on April 8, 2003, at age 72, slipped o... Read More

With the recent injury and death of Natasha Richardson from an injury to her brain after striking her head in a ski accident it behooves all of us to learn the symptoms of closed head injury so that we may be alert to their presence in a friend or loved one after an accident. Brain injury can occur from a minor impact to the skull. It can also happen without impact to the skull. This latter is known as a contrecoup concussion. Rapid movement of t... Read More

New evidence reveals that Seroquel manufacturer AstraZeneca may have known over ten years ago that the drug caused diabetes and weight gain. According to a story in the New York Times, 102 previously sealed documents were made public earlier this year in a lawsuit brought by drug users against the manufacturer. The story, by the Times writer Duff Wilson, quotes AstraZeneca publications manager John Tumas making the following statement, “&he... Read More

The first principle of personal injury negotiating is: ask for more than you expect to get. To apply this correctly you need to know what your case is worth but that’s a whole other article. Once you have a ball park idea of your case’s value multiply it by three for example. Use that as your starting point. I like to think of it as an “invitation to negotiate.” Roger Dawson is one of the country’s top experts ... Read More