Mariano Garcia, an attorney with Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley was recently elected Vice President of the American Board of Trial Advocates – Palm Beach Chapter for 2014. The American Board of Trial Advocates is a national association of experienced trial lawyers and judges dedicated to the preservation and […]
Without realizing he was doing it, President Abraham Lincoln may very well have begun this holiday when he travelled by train from Washington, DC to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to honor the dead who has fallen in the bloodiest battle of the war. President Lincoln’s speech, in part:
A huge recall is underway of beef distributed by Wolverine Packing Company of Detroit Michigan. Eleven cases of E. coli infection have been reported in four states; none so far in Florida.
How the proposed revisions to the federal rules might impact corporate conduct? We are hearing unpleasant news about the way…
It’s something we hear about every year in Florida as the temperatures heat up – children left unattended in a locked vehicle by a caretaker who simply forgot. Dying of heatstroke is a preventable tragedy that only takes minutes to occur.
10. Thinks a “legal hold” is a marriage license. 9. Thinks a megabyte is a sandwich served at McDonalds; a gigabyte is a double with cheese. 8. Thinks proportionality involves yearly shareholder bonuses. 7. Thinks email is not useful for discovery. 6. Thinks metadata is the most useful area of […]
In any document search allowing defendants’ custodians to conduct their own searches is much like allowing the fox to guard the henhouse. Even focused and disciplined custodial collections can be fraught with problems. Example Email sent during product development: “ Jim – I am writing to you because of the […]
Why is GM in so much trouble? Is it just about bad switches or improperly operating air bags; recalls of millions of vehicles? Isn’t about more than that? Isn’t it really about corporate attitude, corporate responsibility and corporate citizenship? This is not the first time that corporate America has placed […]
(This article was originally published in the March 2014 Issue of the Journal, published by the Florida Justice Association. The article is reprinted here by permission of the author) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of suicide deaths in 2010 was 38,364, making it the […]
GM is in a fix. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has ordered them to respond to 107 questions concerning defects in GM cars and trucks. Although GM’s CEO promised transparency in the investigation and provided over 21,000, Congressional leaders believe they are still holding back. That may well be […]
