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I had a great time speaking to the New Lawyers at the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers today. I promised to post the supporting materials and you can download the Personal injury Checklist here. Good luck to all of you. If you need to ask any questions, just email me though my website. _____________________…

For those of you who are like me and get confused calculating birthdays and age, I’ve found a nifty little age calculator. I’m always second guessing myself on when a minor becomes an adult and how that figures into Statute Of Limitations. In NC, a minor’s statute of limitations does not begin until their 18th…

Now that the legal world is moving toward a “paperless” approach to things, I get some questions about the best ways to convert documents into PDF files. Most states moving to “paperless filing” require documents to be submitted in PDF format. Below are a few suggestions on ways to do this: Easiest: Buy Adobe Acrobat…

I read an interesting newspaper article over the weekend by Robert Pear for the New York Times News Service.  Read the article here.  Another good version of the article can be read here. The article says that the Bush administration “will no longer pay the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that…

A friend forwarded me a great article by a columnist who writes for a Philadelphia newspaper. It exposes some of the horrible practices that I’ve noticed over the years by one of America’s largest insurers, Allstate. Some of Allstate’s practices are so extreme that I’ve had Allstate adjuster say to me “I know this case…

The WorkPlaceProf Blog has posted an interesting case which has some very minor posisbilities of being a “nose under the tent” in NC to avoid ERISA liens. Basically, the case cited from the US Supreme Court has allowed a state to trump ERISA in order to “take” money away from a retirement plan for a…

This is a great YouTube video on the issue of “Tort Reform.” The video does a great job showing how giant corporations have twisted and distorted the truth about law suits in America simply to poison jury pools. They do this so they can continue to deny responsiblity for wrong doing, and basically “save a…

To often, politics of the right and the left interfere with the stark reality of tort reform. In the past decade or so, conservatives have used “tort-reform” as a political “wedge issue” and have spent multi-millions of dollars to turn the public, and juries, against all Plaintiffs. The article below was written by a self-described…

This just in from www.cnn.com Every once in a while someone goes a little too far in trying to avoid jury service. Looks like this guy went overboard in his attempt to avoid service on a grand jury, which amittedly, can take a lot of time. I think the Judge did the right thing here.…

As I’m getting ready for a trial, I’m constantly reminded that the “reason the case is going to trial” has more to do with the defendant’s insurance company than anything else. It’s frustrating as an attorney fighting for justice because I have the burden of proof for the “facts” of the case, but what the…