Personal Injury Links: Post Vacation Update
I'm back from the Maryland State Bar Association convention in Ocean City. What? You did not see me there? Okay, I never actually made it to the convention. But the brochure looked nice.
Anyway, I'm back and these are the links of interest I found this weekend:
- Maryland law firms are hiring. Really. And it was a good week nationally for (the relative absence of) law firm layoffs. Just call it a comeback.
- The “drug made me do it” defense is being used again in a New York case where the defendant alleges Zoloft caused him to assault his girlfriend. My friend Andy Vickery tried this Zoloft defense unsuccessfully in a much publicized criminal case in South Carolina. If Andy can’t pull it off under what on the surface appears to be much better facts, I doubt this guy will.
- Justinian Lake writes about a Texas Supreme Court opinion that goes out of its way to attack a very well respected plaintiff’s lawyer.
- A Tennessee malpractice lawyer tries to rile up jurors into changing their mind after multi-million dollar malpractice verdict.
