We recently upgraded from Microsoft Office 2010 to Office 2013. To add to the change, we went to Microsoft 365, a cloud based framework. For the most part the transition went smooth, largely because we have cooperative users who recognize the value of improved technology and the inconvenience that goes […]
An all too familiar campaign of denial. It seems like every week a different retired football player from the National Football League publically reveals their private struggles with post-football related health issues, and particularly those attributable to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE. CTE is a progressive degenerative disease found in […]
With the recent enactment of body camera legislation, Florida has taken an important first step in stemming the erosion of public confidence in law enforcement– but more must be done. Few can seriously doubt that behavior is likely to improve when it occurs under the watchful eye of a camera lens […]
I was asked recently by a friend what it means to be a Florida Bar Board Certified Trial Lawyer. It is a very valid and important question. What is the difference, for example, between someone who markets himself as a “trial lawyer” and someone who is a “Board Certified Trial […]
According to the NPDB website, it is an “electronic information repository created by Congress. It contains information on medical malpractice payments and certain adverse actions related to health care practitioners, entities, providers, and suppliers.” Unfortunately, the reports containing this vital information, which are contained within this repository, are confidential and […]
Following a long and very difficult battle with cancer, in the early morning hours of Palm Sunday, the 53 year long earthly relationship between Chris and Priscilla was ended by Priscilla’s passing. In 2008, on the occasion of his elevation to the position of Dean of the highly prestigious International Academy […]
Will California’s Move Cause Other States to Raise the Legal Smoking Age? The phrase “Go west, young man,” in American jargon can be traced back to the mid-1800s, when westward expansion began . And for raising the legal smoking age in the United States, like manifest destiny, the American West […]
Just imagine the courtroom scene… The negligent party is in the courtroom being examined by plaintiff’s counsel: “Now, isn’t it true that you turned left in front of my client at the intersection of A and B streets?” “I made a turn that was approximately 86 degrees in the westerly […]
March 31, 2016 – Santa Barbara, CA: The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation will hold a hearing to consider a request to establish coordinated national litigation against the manufacturers of Viagra. The Judicial Panel is a group of federal judges who meet every other month to consider requests for the […]
A young man permanently confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life. No more bicycle riding. No more dancing. No more walking down the street to a friend’s house. No more of anything you and I would call living. Dontrell Stephens was shot four times by a […]
