Legal Brief

The $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot won by three persons on January 9, 2016 caused a lot of discussion about how a lottery winner can remain anonymous in the face of a financial windfall. There are good reasons for a winner to want anonymity, especially personal safety concerns – most recently the Georgia lottery winner of $434,000 who was murdered in…

Did you hear the story about the jury that rendered a defense verdict after the attorney told his client she would be “crazy” to take a million dollars in settlement?  When the court entered a judgment against the client for attorneys’ fees and costs, the attorney was sued for malpractice!  This and other real cases cited in this article illustrate…

Serving as local counsel during litigation is a very common practice. Local counsel usually has lesser contact with the client. Most attorneys interpret “local counsel” to mean having only a supporting or behind the scenes role. Being only “local counsel” might lull an attorney into a false sense of diminished responsibility. Thinking and acting that way could produce serious consequences. The…

Exposing the Myth that John Wilkes Booth Escaped The most recent development in the history of the Lincoln Assassination is the 1995 trial on the petition to exhume John Wilkes Booth from Green Mount Cemetery. The name of the legal case is Kline v. The Green Mount Cemetery. Like the lingering controversy over the assassination of President Kennedy, for 50…