Guns Are Not Good For Children And Other Living Things
The New England Journal of Medicine recently responded to the mass shooting of elementary school children in Newtown, CT, by publishing an article entitled “Preventing Gun Deaths in Children.” Despite the sense of temporary disbelief a reader experiences by seeing such words on the printed page (or computer screen), and the primal feelings of shock, [...]
Lawyers and Online Marketing-a Hazardous Mix
In Vilella v. AT &T, a New York lawyer learned the hard way that the internet is chock full of unscrupulous sales people and tactics. But perhaps the most important lesson for New York lawyers is that judges will be less than sympathetic to those who are motivated to take these charlatans of the internet to [...]
Marketing Malpractice By Tort “Reformers.”
Professor Theodore Eisenberg of Cornell Law School has completed a study on the empirical effects of the so-called tort “reform” movement in the U.S. This was brought to my attention by the TortsProfBlog, which features the article’s abstract. Among Eisenberg’s sober findings: 1) punitive damages were never out of control and in need of reform; [...]