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I’ve written quite a bit about how the practice of law has changed and is continuing to change because of the growth of the internet, and specifically the growth of social media. In all that writing, I’ve mostly had good things to say: social media allows attorneys to share information with each other and become [...]

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We’ve been following the Toyota recalls here at GJEL for the past several months. We’ve reported on the recalls that were in response to runaway vehicles, and about the potential recall on the 2010 model of the Prius Hybrid because of faulty brakes. Today, there are four new developments. The first is good news, the [...]

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Toyota Motor Corp. has been all over the news lately. With all the news about Toyota recalling dozens of models of Toyota and Lexus vehicles for design flaws in the floor mats and accelerator pedals that can cause cars to accelerate uncontrollably, it’s hard to imagine that things could get worse for the car company. [...]

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According to the New York Times, Toyota Motor Corp announced a recall today of eight models of Toyota and Lexus vehicles in Europe. That recall affects 1.8 million cars, bringing the current total number of vehicles affected up to nearly 9 million.
What’s Wrong With These Cars?
In the last two years, there have been five fatal [...]

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According to Paulson Coletti Trial Attorneys’ website, “ODOT (Oregon Department of Transportation) reports that in the year 2000 there were over 46,000 motor vehicle accidents, resulting in 27,503 injured and 451 deaths, in the State of Oregon.” The numbers are high, and as of this year, Oregon is making one [...]

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At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, 206 patients were given CT scans that delivered a dose of radiation many times higher than they were supposed to. The excess radiation was due to an error made by the hospital.
Officials from the hospital said yesterday that the error was a result of overriding the pre-programmed defaults [...]

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You’ve probably heard by now that Supreme Court Justice Scalia thinks that some of our greatest minds are being wasted in the legal profession. I was planning on not covering that particular story, partly because it’s already been widely reported on, and partly because I have long been of the opinion that the minds that [...]

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I’ve been acutely aware of the pharmaceutical industry lately. I’ve been following the first of the test trials in the Foasamax cases, and the ensuing jury tension, and here at GJEL we’re investigating cases for women who have taken Yasmin or Yaz and suffered serious injury as a result. As you can imagine, I’ve been developing some opinions of [...]

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Being a Wisconsin native, I’ve been following the case surrounding State Supreme Court Justice Michale Gableman for the past several months. Of course, it wasn’t a case, exactly, when I started following it–it was just an advertisement on my television. But now the little television has turned into a national discussion surrounding the  election of [...]

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In May of this year, the Supreme Court ruled that Iqbal, a Pakistani Muslim arrested after the September 11th attacks, could not sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft or current FBI director Robert S. Mueller III for “harsh conditions of confinement” that were based on “his race, religion, or national origin, in contra-vention of the First and [...]

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