Posted On: June 15, 2009 by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

Personal Injury Links: Post Vacation Update

I'm back from the Maryland State Bar Association convention in Ocean City. What? You did not see me there? Okay, I never actually made it to the convention. But the brochure looked nice.

Anyway, I'm back and these are the links of interest I found this weekend:

  • Maryland law firms are hiring. Really. And it was a good week nationally for (the relative absence of) law firm layoffs. Just call it a comeback.

  • The “drug made me do it” defense is being used again in a New York case where the defendant alleges Zoloft caused him to assault his girlfriend. My friend Andy Vickery tried this Zoloft defense unsuccessfully in a much publicized criminal case in South Carolina. If Andy can’t pull it off under what on the surface appears to be much better facts, I doubt this guy will.

  • Justinian Lake writes about a Texas Supreme Court opinion that goes out of its way to attack a very well respected plaintiff’s lawyer.

  • A Tennessee malpractice lawyer tries to rile up jurors into changing their mind after multi-million dollar malpractice verdict.

  • If a Maryland lawyer intermingles his/her own money and the clients' money in an IOLTA account, that lawyer will be disbarred. Think Derek Fisher in the playoffs with time winding down. Automatic. No more questions asked. I have to think that if you do this, being disbarred must not be an awful outcome for you because you almost have to know it is coming.

  • Even Schaeffer offers good general tips on cross examination.

  • John Bratt talks about what is not a rare accomplisment in Maryland: fending off summary judgment in an ice slip and fall case.

  • Dave Swanner blogs about David Ball’s upcoming book that I’m definitely going to order.

  • Chris Robinette from the TortsProf Blog has just published “The Synergy of Early Offers and Medical Explanations/Apologies" Northwestern Law Review's Colloquy. Chris wrote another article back in 2004, “Contributory or Comparative: Which is the Optimal Negligence Rule?” that my partner Laura Zois used to prepare to testify before the Maryland House of Delegates when we tried (unsuccessfully) to convince the Maryland General Assembly to adopt comparative negligence.

  • John Cord provides an update on the Seroquel litigation. The news, as always in the Seroquel MDL of late, is bad for plaintiffs. The post talks about causation problems in drug injury cases.

  • Eric Turkewitz offers a roundup of personal injury related links. (According to Google Chrome, I’m reading Eric’s blog quite a bit.)

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