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Why I ... Help Kids Find Their Inner Rock Star

Music has stirred my soul since I was a child. The proof is captured in an old, grainy family photo, circa 1973; I am about 3 years old, sitting beside my parents' stereo, my father's headphones strapped to my head, eyes wide as saucers, awestruck by the celestial sounds dancing into my ears. From these early seeds grew deep roots which many years later bore unexpected fruits.
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Daily Business Review

$15.8 Million Awarded To Woman's Family For LabCorp Mistake

A West Palm Beach federal jury awarded $15.8 million award against LabCorp for misreading a pap smear that led to a woman's death by cancer.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Chiodetti v. Fernandes, PICS Case No. 14-0452 (C.P. Philadelphia March 24, 2014) Colins, J. (12 pages).

By | April 15, 2014
Expert Witnesses • Notice • Hearsay • Failure to Produce
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The Legal Intelligencer

Recusal in Med Mal Case Denied as Attempt to 'Judge Shop'

A Columbia County Court of Common Pleas judge won't recuse himself from overseeing a medical malpractice suit that involves a man whom the judge had prosecuted in his former role as district attorney.
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New York Law Journal

The Missing Witness Charge in the Medical Malpractice Trial

In their Medical Malpractice Defense column, Martin Clearwater & Bell's John L.A. Lyddane and Barbara D. Goldberg write: Although the "missing witness charge" is frequently discussed and requested in cases where a party's examining physician is not produced at trial, the principle has a much broader application given the myriad factual issues presented by a medical malpractice case.
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Daily Report Online

Panel Revives $3M Verdict in Hospital Case

A plaintiff in a wrongful death case has won reinstatement of a $3 million verdict against a hospital—but her lawyer nonetheless is bothered by the part of the opinion by the Georgia Court of Appeals that lets a physician off the hook.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Work-Product Privilege Covers Using Experts' Prior Testimony To Impeach

Lawyers who track down an opposing expert's testimony from prior cases must disclose it during discovery but need not say which testimony they plan to use in cross-examining the expert at trial, a New Jersey appeals court says.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Divided Appeals Court Rejects Notion That 'Blinded Reviews' Needed for Suit Over Misread Pap Test

A divided Georgia Court of Appeals has rejected a defense attempt to restrict the sort of expert testimony that's acceptable in malpractice cases involving a common screening test for cervical cancer.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

The Careerist: Stop Picking on Low-Ranking Law Schools!

A reader takes the Careerist to task for being too elitist about legal education.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Amy Goodusky: Spa Lawsuit Is Truly Hair Erasing

It was one of those days. Four hundred group emails changing the date, time, location and food preferences for a long-distance deposition; two thumbs down on a case in which the liability had heretofore looked favorable to the home team; a missing check to pay another expert reviewer; both copiers jammed at the same time; three denied motions; and I broke my French coffee press when my suit jacket caught on the handle.
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