For all the attention the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution gets, very little attention is given to our right to jury trials. Starting with the Magna Carta in England, the pantheon of natural rights in America would be toothless without the right to seek redress and defend oneself before a jury of our peers.

Florida appellate courts rarely elevate the privacy rights of plaintiffs over the discovery needs of hospitals and doctors in a medical malpractice case. So this will be a great help.

The Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision not to reinstate a nearly $31 million jury award against a bar that served alcohol to an underage person who later crashed into a pedestrian was the right call, experts said, and provided much needed clarity on the state’s dram shop statute.

When I entered the classroom each new school year, I became responsible for teaching a group of strangers who may not have wanted to be there, about a subject that they may not have wanted to learn and were largely ill-equipped to understand. This easily could be considered the job description of a trial attorney.

A new tobacco case on appeal further restricts punitive damage remedies against tobacco companies.

Defense lawyers who convince a judge to keep out evidence of prior similar accidents don’t get to argue to the jury that there is no evidence of similar accidents.

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There is an update on a story I blogged about involving a defense firm disqualified from an auto negligence case because one of its lawyers previously worked for the plaintiff on a prior similar claim.

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.