Escaped Tiger Enters the Torts Ring
This would be today’s entry in the Dept. of Cases We’re Unlikely to Hear About Again. Courtesy of today’s Gothamist, we learn that a case involving an escaped circus tiger whose presence caused car accidents along the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Brooklyn (NY), which in turn caused serious injuries to the occupants of the vehicles involved, [...]
Breakfast with Med Mal Judge and Practitioners Tomorrow
Tomorrow morning, January 6, 2009, at 8:00 a.m. at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, there will be a breakfast program on LITIGATING IN THE MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PARTS IN SUPREME COURT. The Honorable Sheila Abdus-Salaam, one of NY County Supreme Court’s Medical Malpractice Part judges, will be the guest speaker. She will [...]
What Goes Around…
If you were as repulsed as I was by the whitewash treatment received by former governor Elliot Spitzer by U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia, you will be pleased to learn that he will be leaving his post shortly for a job at New York law firm Kirkland & Ellis, according to Dan Slater, writing in The [...]