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Settling your personal injury case without an attorney? Watch out for the traps!

Thinking of settling your personal injury case without an attorney? You may want to think again after you watch this video.

Workers’ Compensation | Find the Best Lawyer

Construction Worker on Job Site Worker's Compensation

Find the Best Lawyer for Your Workers’ Compensation Claim
During any given workweek, you are most likely focused on doing your job and doing it well. There are enough things to worry about at work without worrying whether you’ll be protected in the event of a workplace accident. Workers’ compensation is a legally mandated benefit, which provides that protection – however, in t…

Find the Best Injury Lawyer in Missouri

Finding an attorney is important, and it can be difficult. Here are some tips.

Fatal Consequences of Texting Teen Drivers

Driver will spend time behind bars as a result of fatal accident

In early June, a teenager was convicted of causing a fatal accident while texting under Massachusetts criminal law.

Aaron Deveau, who was just 17-years-old when the accident occurred, sent 193 text messages on the day of the accident that killed a 55-year-old man. Some of those text messages were sent a minute before t…

Our Court system, and Your rights are in the Balance this Election Day!

Election Day is right around the corner. One measure on the ballot is Amendment 3, which will force appellate court judges to run for election rather than be appointed.  The Missouri Plan for judicial selection is a model around the nation, and for good reason. Judicial panels are selected by bipartisan committees and then a judge is chosen from the panel and  appointed by the governor. T…

Medical Bills after you are injured.

Injury victims are often worried about medical bills. Here is what I told one client recently.

Juries Don’t Hear All the Evidence!

 

A real trial is nothing like a TV trial. Some information flies by at break neck speed and other important evidence never even gets to the jury. Here are some things you should know before going to…

Have a Safe Holiday Season! Ten Tips.

As the holiday season approaches, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) urges us to be safe when holiday decorating. Simple safety steps can go a long way in preventing fires and injuries this time of year.

Annually, during the two months surrounding the holiday season, more than 14,000 people are treated in hospital emergency rooms due to injuries related to holiday decorating.

Veteran’s Day – Give Thanks to Those Who Gave All

I often complain that my clients and future clients are denied access to the courts and justice. Insurance companies, Chambers of Commerce and others work tirelessly to eliminate access to justice by putting up barriers to the court house, attacking judges and the jury system, and misinforming the population about what REALLY happens to injury victims.

It would be ungrateful to forget those who…

Is the Law a Business or a Profession?

I am a proud member of the legal profession. The profession has traditions and responsibilities, and honorable lawyers take those seriously.

 I write a syndicated column for the Levison Group, called under analysis ™. The topic came up this week that lawyers are just marketers, and it rankled me. Here is what newspapers around the country got from me for my monthly column. 

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