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It’s not often that one of my practice areas collides with popular culture.  For years, I’ve had the honor of representing a number of victims of dog attacks.  These are often horrible, serious incidents because of the emotional toll that a victim experiences from an attack. Imagine my surprise then...

A constant problem that we face in cases are doctors who perform "independent" medical exams.  In many cases, insurance companies hire doctors to review our clients' medical records or to have a one-time exam of our clients and then write a report on how bad our clients are hurt and/or...

I know it's been over a month since I have posted to the site.  But as a trial lawyer, I've been busy actually getting ready for trials.  You might think that's normal, except it's not.  I recently read a study that most lawyers who call themselves litigators have not had...

Over the years, I've had the pleasure of helping a number of clients who have suffered from brain injuries.  And as I've written before, I hoped that one small benefit of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was that the Veterans Administration and others would use the opportunity to conduct...

My favorite example of Dallas traffic happened several years ago during Texas/OU weekend.  We were in college, driving on I35 (no doubt with the radio blaring), and I saw a driver four lanes over start screaming because he thought someone cut him off.  But he was screaming so loud that...

Earlier this week, several people were injured in a roller coaster accident at Six Flags in Valencia, California.  Apparently, a tree fell on the track, injuring two people and causing a number of others to be stranded for hours. That's tragic.  Amusement park injuries occur more than we think, and...

As you probably know, Chrysler admitted earlier this year that just over 2.5 million of its vehicles had defective ignition switches.  The switches were faulted in at least 165 deaths and countless more serious injuries. In an effort to control litigation costs, Chrysler has set up a claim process that...

I had the pleasure of spending the last week at Camp Emerald Bay on Catalina Island with about 35 members of my son's scout troop.  It has taken time away from the office and my family, and it's certainly made things more hectic, but it was worth it. Over the...

Although the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was horrific for platform workers, and those who lost loved ones, riggers on land are at an even greater risk, without much of a support system for them. According to a recent drilling article in the Houston Chronicle, workers have...

Although this workplace lawsuit happened in Philadelphia, it could just as easily happen in Austin, Texas, the state with the highest number of on-the-job injuries and deaths. This was a wrongful-death lawsuit that arose after the death of a Philadelphia man while on a jobsite. The $17 million settlement involved...