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Texting and driving seems to be fairly innocuous doesn’t it? I mean, what’s the big deal? In 2010, The National Safety Council announced today that at least 28% of all traffic crashes [...]

Sorry about missing the blog post for last week, but I was out of state attempting to resolve a catastrophic accident only a few weeks following the incident. Obviously, I cannot go into the [...]

I wish I had the time to blog  a more informative post this week, but since last week, the following  have inundated me: problems with my father problems with the server in the cloud [...]

This is no joke! I am not posting about trucking specific topics today because I am out of the office on an “ancestry search” with my seventy-nine year old father, who recently [...]

No matter how you slice it, lawyers are in the service industry. We are judged not only on our knowledge, expertise and results, but also on how well we PERFORM those services. How do we get [...]

In the past, I have blogged about and shared “standard voir dire” questions, but the following is to assist with instructions given to the jury. I am not presenting actual suggestions [...]

I empathize with truck driver who has to keep up with continuing changes in hours of service. It seems that every few months there is change or a proposed change. Don’t get me wrong, I am [...]

I cannot understand how anyone can make the argument with a straight face that social media posts of the plaintiff are not relevant. Surely the posts of a the plaintiffs’s activities before [...]

Although the decision is over a year old, in NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. v. Lilly Co. (No. 11-2415 AV, 2011 WL 5986649, W.D. Tenn. Nov. 16, 2011), the plaintiff brought a motion to [...]

Louisiana law recognizes a cause of action for breach of an employer’s duty to exercise reasonable care in hiring, training and retaining employees, and such cause of action is independent [...]