North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Doctors have continued to file lawsuits challenging the adverse decisions of insurers. In the cases discussed below, the doctors had mixed success in pursuing two different, novel theories of alleged wrongdoing. Rojas In Rojas v. Cigna, Cigna determined that a ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

“A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.” – John Henry Wigmore Professor Wigmore’s oft-quoted observation is a cautionary note on the hazards of heedless cross-examination [see John ...

Tagged with: expert witness

By Dennis Saylor IV and Daniel I. Small BOSTON, MA — To try a case effectively, you need to have a theory of the case, and you need to develop themes to help persuade the jury. Although they are both ...

Tagged with: lawsuit

Winning the right to same-sex marriage has been seen as the defining hurdle of the battle for LGBT equality, but it’s far from the only one. With no federal law that explicitly bans companies from discriminating on the basis of ...

Tagged with: EEOC

Paul Luvera Dolan Media Newswires I’ve written and lectured for many years about the essential concept of simplicity in trying lawsuits. Extensive research has demonstrated repeatedly that the message must be simple and consistent. The “rule of three,” that is, ...

Tagged with: jury

It’s a safe bet that the people behind the esteemed “Bluebook” find nothing cute about “Baby Blue,” the new online, open source legal citation manual that went live earlier this month. The Harvard Law Review Association, which publishes “The Bluebook: ...

It can be easy for lawyers both old and new (but particularly new) to get so wrapped up in all the complex discussions about the psychology of trial that they overlook the fundamentals of winning. So for plaintiffs’ lawyers just ...

Tagged with: Trial

According to an annual digital assets survey conducted by online security company McAfee, 55 percent of survey respondents claim to keep assets on their devices that are impossible to re-create, download or purchase again. When counseling individuals and families to ...

By JOHN L. PINNIX March madness has a unique meaning for businesses trying to staff often hard to fill professional slots, for foreign nationals with advanced academic attainment who want to live and work in the U.S., and for their ...

Tagged with: immigration

When’s the last time you gave real thought to the true purpose behind our advocacy for our plaintiff clients? I don’t remember what my first case was about or what the outcome was, but I remember how I felt after ...