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• A Big Pay Day for Enron Stockholders' Lawyers

  Rob Curtiss | January 11, 2008 9:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Despite our best efforts to educate the public about the economics of contingent fee law practice, a great many people still believe that lawyer's fees are outrageous. Folks of this ilk will have a field day with the fee being sought by the San Diego law firm that represented the defrauded Enron stockholders. That firm, Coughlin Stoia, Geller, Rudman and Robbins just put in a request a...

• Actor Angry Over Hospital Error

  Rob Curtiss | January 11, 2008 9:11 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Film actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have expressed their outrage over the treatment their newborn twins have received at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A report from the California Department of Public Health confirms that the couple's babies each received a dosage of Heparin that was 2,000 times stronger than the prescribed dose. Heparin is a high risk drug used as a blood...

• Insurance Companies Only Respect a Law Firm That is Prepared to do Battle

  Rob Curtiss | January 04, 2008 8:50 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Did you ever see the movie "Bravehart?" Early in the film the English and Scots armies are squared off against each other in battle formation. Just when a fight seems inevitable, small negotiating teams from both sides ride out to meet each other. At this tense point, with the hostile armies on the verge of confrontation, the negotiators work out a settlement between the Scots and English...

• John Edwards, Taking Heat for Being a Trial Lawyer

  Rob Curtiss | January 04, 2008 8:48 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Several of the major presidential candidates: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani to name a few are lawyers by training. Thus far I don't recall any of these individuals have been attacked because they are attorneys. However, another candidate John Edwards has been vilified for some time because of his profession. You see, Edwards is not just a lawyer he is a "trial...