Litigation

As you may know, I started my legal career as a prosecutor. I literally tried hundreds of  bench trial and scores of jury trials. In five years as a prosecutor, I was fortunate to have tried more [...]

Many excess insurance carriers get nervous when sued under Louisiana’s Direct Action Statute and want us to get them dismissed.   However, under the Direct Action Statute (La. R.S. [...]

Much of this information, you may already have available electronically, but I have a checklist available in  PDF or Word version. Please let me know and I will forward it to you. [...]

The following is a great asset for a quick reference to the cellphone laws in each state. Thanks to Harvey Mensch with ATTIC for sending to me. Thanks to the Insurance Institute for Highway [...]

The following is fully attributed to +Rick Norman for  the excellent outline of the legal issues of properly conducting background check of prospective employees. An employer who hires [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

I recently posted information on Linked In about the EEOC strategy to pursue claims against  employers using a blanket approach to background checks of criminal history and credit [...]