Huge verdict in Albany personal injury case - $3.85 million

What a week! I had a trial in Albany (4/23 to 4/27) on a personal injury case involving a motorcycle - car accident. My client was on the motorcycle. An SUV came across the centerline and drove him into another SUV. Client's foot was partially amputated by the force of the accident itself, and he had a surgical below-the-knee amputation about 12 days later. The jury came back on Friday with a

Interesting DWI case

I had a case some time ago where my client had been arrested for DWI. I reviewed a document I refer to as "The Green Sheet." This, technically, is what's known as a DWI Bill of Particulars and Supporting Deposition. Partial images of each from this case are below. I've intentionally omitted my client's name and the name of the Trooper (I have met the Trooper many times and like him, but even if I

Off-topic - funny web ads

I saw these two web ads recently, and thought they were funny. The first is vaguely related to the blog. This appeared on screen while I was reading a gmail message. Look below that for the next one.What caught my eye was "Bed Bugs Lawyer." I give them credit for getting my attention, though I couldn't find the part of their website where they actually do these cases.The next one has nothing to

Assembly Line Justice

The New York State Bar Association had a panel discussion today on the Justice Court system, which is composed of town and village courts. There has been an ongoing look at the system, propelled in part by a series of articles in the New York Times. I mentioned that series of articles in a post on my Stop Wasting Money blog sometime ago.There were a couple of main ideas in today's discussion. One

Philadelphia Traffic Court - the delicious irony

Great story in Philadelphia. 15 candidates for traffic court judge in the Democratic primary. Of those 15, 8 owe parking fines. Three of the eight actually owe over $1000 in fines. One of the other candidates has his car registered in another county. And four candidates don't even have a car registered in their names.These are the people who may be ruling on traffic court matters in Philadelphia.

Alexa traffic rankings bias?

I keep hearing about Alexa and how Alexa ranks websites. I checked it out today. My three most "successful" websites are ranked by Alexa. This blog is in the 5 million range (i.e. there are a bit over 5 million websites that get more traffic than this blog).What I found interesting is that my law firm site, redlichlaw.com, at #1,282,824, outranks our traffic court directory site, town-court.com,

Winning and Losing for the Wrong Reasons

I wrote before about winning and losing. There I was talking about "unwinnable" and "unlosable" cases. Now I'll talk about winning and losing for the wrong reasons.Most of our work involves cases where we expect the results to be straightforward. Take personal injury cases where the client is a passenger and had a broken bone. In such cases liability is essentially clear in one respect - it's not

I've been rated ... and they actually said nice things

I got a letter the other day saying that I "have been awarded a CV Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, which deals with both ethical standards and legal ability. No, I'm not making this up. You can see for yourself on the Martindale Hubbell page on Warren Redlich.A CV rating "identifies a lawyer with good to high legal ability [and] is a positive indication of ... professional