Let’s hear it for New York federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff who, in presiding over the settlement between the S.E.C. and Bank of America. Judge Rakoff is requiring disclosure of the identity of…
Though there has been press coverage of Wendell Potter’s changing role, it has been curiously light. In June, he testified before Congress on the abuses of HMOs. Now he’s back in the picture,…
More and more people don’t realize what they are signing up for when they take new jobs and the fact that they are taking on new responsibilities. This is a big mistake that can come back to haunt…
You’ve finally retired and have purchased that dream plot of forty acres. You know the one just outside of town, with open spaces where grandkids can come and explore, where the only…
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is yet another anti consumer republican trying to shift the focus from insurance reform by pretending that problems in health care are the result of “junk…
As someone who grew up on the coast, I used to enjoy hurricane season. Most of my friends enjoyed hurricane season, what wasn’t to like? School would shut down, families and friends would get…
When a lay person calls me about a legal problem, it is generally a friend or former client. We encourage them to call us because, although we confine our practice to civil jury trials, we want them…
Maybe arbitration involving consumers is beginning to run its course. A recent post by Wayne Parsons describes Bank of America’s decision to stop forcing arbitration on consumers. Wayne cited…
Recently, one of the partners at my law firm, Burns, Cunningham & Mackey, blogged with the recommendation of having your child secured in a rear facing car seat versus being in a front face car…
In the last entry of this series, let’s discuss you acting as your own lawyer. Rule number one — don’t think about it. Rule number two — don’t think about it. If rules number one and two go…
Over 300 union members at the four OMNI nursing homes in New Jersey have been without a contract since 2007. Two years ago, the owner of these homes, Avery Eisenreich, walked away from the…
Nearly all of us have had it happen to us at least once. First all oxygen appears to be sucked from the room, then, almost simultaneously, your stomach is twisted into a pretzel as if you are one of…