Blog posts of interest to personal injury lawyers:
*The new IPO (Legal Process Outsourcing) News Blog has an interesting post on the increasing demand for lawyers in India. Demand for lawyers in India has risen such that some lawyers are seeing salary increases of up to 100%. I'm not sure that a lot of personal injury lawyers are going to come out of India for obvious logistical reasons but I would not be surprised if support staff from India becomes far more common over the next 10 years.
*The Maryland Personal Injury Lawyer Blog has a post on a defense medical malpractice lawyer who questioned the fairness of jurors in the entire city of Baltimore.
*Dave Swanner's always excellent South Carolina Trial Blog suggests giving employees Friday afternoons off. This is a great idea but I worry about taking care of new and existing clients who call in on Friday afternoon.
*The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog has a post on the sanctions incurred when one lawyer could not control his client in deposition. These people rarely sneak up on lawyers; you can usually spot a client that you cannot control from a mile away. Obviously, there is a sliding scale of what a lawyer will tolerate depending upon the size of the case but there has to be some sort of minimum hurdle of decency a client has to be able to advance. This client did not meet that hurdle and 99% of the time, this is foreseeable to the lawyer who agreed to provide representation.
*My Shingle has a blog post about Carolyn Elefant's new book Solo by Choice. I have not read the book but the reviews have been excellent.
*The Birmingham Injury Blog has a post on mandatory arbitration clauses in nursing home contracts. This issue is not going away. Some courts are going to acknowledge the insanity of limiting a patient's rights given the unequal bargaining power of the nursing home. Other states are going to say that a contract is a contract.
*Also from Alabama (and also a Justia blog), the Alabama Product Injury Lawyer Blog has a blog post on drug companies and their propensity to ghostwrite studies about their drugs or medical devices and then having doctors agree to author the study to lend credence to what is often the propaganda of the drug companies.
*The New York Personal Injury Lawyer Blog and the Maryland Lawyer Blog posts on a blog called ER Stories, which appears to be made up stories of malpractice cases from an undisclosed doctor. To make it fun for the whole family, the New York Personal Injury Attorney Blog post title is Malpractice, Oral Sex, and Urban Legends.
I hope these posts are of interest. For the best and consistent lawyer blog roundups on the Internet of interest to injury and malpractice lawyers, visit Brooks Schuelke Personal Injury Law Round-Up #59.
