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A Hip Recall Discussion
will take place at Mass Tort Seminar
(September 20, 2011) A Hip Recall discussion will be but one of the many
topics presented at “Not Your Typical Plaintiff Lawyer’s Seminar”
that will be taking place at the 10th anniversary celebration of
Mass Torts Made Perfect and Torts Made Perfect. This highly
anticipated event will take place at the Bellagio Hotel and
Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 12th-14th, 2011. The
agenda put together for this seminar was designed to, “help
plaintiff attorneys succeed in all aspects of their practices,
from attracting clients to preparing for trials against
formidable opponents”.
The Depuy Hip
Recall is still a hot subject today, even after a year of its
having been recalled. Many believe that there are still
unanswered questions in reference to this Hip Replacement Recall and many patients are still
suffering from the defective product. This Hip Implant Recall was
brought about after the United States Food and Drug
Administration issued a statement declaring that, “On August 24,
2010, there was a voluntary recall of the Depuy ASR total hip
system because of new, unpublished data from the UK joint
registry indicating the revision rates within 5 years were
approximately 13 percent”.… Read More
Date Published: Sep 20, 2011 - 11:23 am
New York, September 20, 2011. The Rottenstein Law Group, which
represents clients with claims stemming from the surgical
implantation of hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by
DePuy Orthopaedics and other companies, has considered the
conclusions of the 8th Annual Report of the National Joint
Registry for England and Wales in light of the firm’s own client
records and found that the data do indeed correspond.
The National Joint Registry (NJR) of England and Wales was
established in 2002. Its purpose, according to the group’s
website, is “to define, improve and maintain the quality of care
of individuals receiving hip, knee and ankle joint replacement
surgery across the [National Health Service in the United
Kingdom] and the independent healthcare sector.” The 8th Annual
Report of the NJR is the “formal public report for the
period 1st April 2010 to 31st March 2011,” according to the front
matter of the report itself.… Read More
Date Published: Sep 20, 2011 - 8:50 am
With the recent trial of Casey Anthony coming to a surprising
conclusion for many, the case has been compared to other high
profile trials, including those of O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake.
Defense attorney Jose Baez and his team prevailed, due to
insufficient evidence to support the charges. Different charges
certainly might have delivered a guilty verdict.
I served on the defense team of Robert Blake, led by
M. Gerald
Schwartzbach, one of the truly great attorneys of our time.
If you or anyone you know needs a great criminal defense
attorney, give him a call. He may even bring me along (if you
mention you read this article). For another professional
reference, here’s a Celebrity endorsement:
I wrote an article for
Technolawyer back in 2005, which I will share
here now, with a few minor updates. Shortly after publication, I
received this note:
Your article was one of the best we’ve ever
published!
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Last Friday, I posted the first part of this article. If you
haven’t read it yet, here’s the link:
LINK TO PART 1 HERE
This article was originally published by Technolawyer in 2005.
I’ve included a few minor updates and extras. The following note
was received by the publisher:
Your article was one of the best we’ve ever published!
Thank you!
Neil J. Squillante, Publisher TechnoLawyer/PeerViews
Inc.
One common thread you’ll find here when comparing the Casey
Anthony and Robert Blake trials is that it takes evidence to get
a conviction. The evidence must support the charges, or the jury
will find for the defendant. That’s the duty of the jury, and the
law. Speculation and feelings are not part of the deliberations
process, even if you really dislike the defendant.
“I just swear to God,” the man, identified only as Juror No.
2, tells the St. Petersburg Times, “I wish we had more evidence
to put her away.
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I will begin by stating that I have worked on a number of high
profile criminal and civil trials in my career, including the
Robert Blake murder defense, so I know what it looks like on the
inside. I hope to work on several more, so there are some things
I cannot share here.
I will admit that I didn’t follow this trial closely, even though
it was deemed the “Trial of the Century” by HLN.
Ratings reportedly doubled for the trial on
HLN, as they focused almost exclusively on the trial. It is
important to note that media carriers are not just a public
service – they are a business. Other than a few inside tidbits
here and there, my source of information on this trial was the
same as most everyone else’s – the various forms of mass media
coverage.
While Nancy Grace and the HLN team seemed to imply this was a
done deal, as I watched the verdict being published, I can’t say
that I was shocked.…
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Date Published: Jul 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm
Reprinted with permission from the July 1, 2011 issue of
Law Technology News, ©2011 ALM Media
Properties, LLC.
idocument REVIEW, a new iPad App was recently
introduced in a brief article by John Cleaves for Law Technology News. The new application sells
for $29.99 and claims to tag, highlight, and redact documents.
Those features, without more, made it worthy to investigate.
There are, however, more key features:
No internet access required to review your documents.
Files are loaded through iTunes in a custom load file format
(three files). To load a 20,000 page case takes about 2 and a
half minutes.
You can load up to 20,000 pages per case load
You can load multiple cases.
You can Keyword search or search by document ID.
You can tag documents (like in Concordance, Summation, etc.) with
up to 16 tags all of which can be customized to whatever the user
needs (by the user and on the fly).… Read More
Date Published: Jul 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm
Okay, so this doesn’t have much to do with legal
technology, or trial presentation, but it does have something to
do with iPad apps for attorneys and other legal professionals –
assuming you eat. More specifically, assuming you have an iPad,
and you like to BBQ. And, since another review I had ready to
publish just got snagged by Law Technology News (idocument REVIEW), and since
I had been asked to review this app, and since we’re coming into
the Independence Day weekend, and since Jeff Richardson (iPhoneJD) is on
vacation, well, I saw a void.
James Carey and Morris Carey, known as the Carey Bros., are
nationally-recognized experts on home building and renovation.
They share their 55+ years of experience as award-winning,
licensed contractors with millions of people nationwide through a
weekly radio program and syndicated newspaper column both titled
On The House.… Read More
Date Published: Jul 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm
TrialPad 2.0 has just been released, and I will
begin by saying that they have indeed read the reviews, listened
to the feedback, and have implemented the features necessary to
make TrialPad the new Gold Standard of iPad Apps for Trial
Presentation.
I always attempt to write my reviews from a professional and
objective perspective, and am not afraid to point out weaknesses,
as well as strengths of a product. I’m not one to offer a cheesy
sales pitch to make someone feel good about their product (the
same way I look at a case during trial – I’m not there to make
you believe you’re convincing the jury if you’re not). If you
want that, you can find it elsewhere. Here’s the link to my first
review of TrialPad, “
Apples to Apples: Two iPad Apps for Trial
Presentation,” which helps make my point.
This article
continues to dominate the all-time highest traffic rating of any
article on my blog.…
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Date Published: Jul 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm
Finally (or, at least almost finally), a touch-typist’s
dream-come-true – a keypad you can actually “feel,” instead of
having to keep your fingers hovering above the iPad’s display,
simultaneously watching the document you are creating, and the
keypad, making sure you’re about to hit the right key. All of
this is done as you’re also monitoring the auto-text to see if
you can tap the spacebar for a shortcut or watching to see if
you’ve misspelled a word.
The iKeyboard has joined a long
list of inventions on the Kickstarter website, each
trying to hook an audience, in order to help with financing the
initial development of an idea. I first learned of this when it
showed up on #Tech & #Law.
(Note: The content at this Paper.li link
changes twice daily, so you will not find this original article
there, although you can find it on Mashable.com:
iKeyboard Enhances Touch Typing on
iPad)
I was so impressed with the concept that I joined what has
now grown to over 500 “backers” of this Kickstarter
project.…
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Date Published: Jul 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm
Trial Presentation Consultant Robb Helt, of Litigation Resource
Group, recently polled his jury, shortly after they came back
with a favorable verdict. Their feedback is priceless, as it gets
directly to the core of the matter as to whether we might look
“too slick,” or like we have so much money that we can afford to
drop a truckload of it into our trial presentation.
Let’s assume that most attorneys nowadays accept the fact
that technology helps speed up a trial, that it aids in juror
comprehension, and that they retain the evidence better than if
they just listened to witness after witness, explaining fact
after fact.
With those assumptions in place, the only real
considerations left are cost, and whether the jury is
sophisticated enough to accept the “high-tech” trial presentation
– especially in a rural setting. While I won’t cover costs in
this article, you can email me with questions and request a rate
sheet.…
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Date Published: Jul 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm
Although it didn’t appear in my iPad or computer iTunes App
Store Updates list, once I launched Exhibit A, I was prompted to
go to the App Store for an update to version 1.3.0, released
(today) on 6/15/2011. It is a free update to the $9.99
app.
I will say that this version is a very significant update,
and although I’ll list the update features below, I can tell you
that the callout and highlighter work like trial presentation
software now, as opposed to just an area focus, like an
ELMO.
Although you’re limited to one exhibit with one callout,
this can now actually be put to work in smaller matters. It would
also work well for presentations, using PDF or another supported
format. Supported file types are PDF, images (jpeg, png, etc.)
and video. PowerPoint is no longer listed as a supported file
type.
My original review:
The developer’s site:
The iTunes link:
From the iTunes Update Feature Listing:
What’s New in Version 1.3.0
Introducing New Features!
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Funny, after many years of trial consulting, I’ve
never bothered to consider what an incredibly intense level of
stress we are expected to endure for weeks — or even months at a
time, when we are in trial. The Holmes and Rahe stress
scale is basically a list of a list of
43 stressful life events that can lead to illness.
What was interesting, if not alarming, this past weekend at
the ASTC Conference in Seattle, was
when Ric Dexter shared that we can approach the breaking point,
just by being in trial. Little things such as changes in
work, sleep patterns, eating, exercise, living conditions, place
of residence, personal habits, and social activities are all
adding up, making us increasingly vulnerable to illness or other
issues, such as a short temper or lack of patience for
others.
I’ve always realized trial was stressful, and that tempers
were often short (including my own), but I guess I never really
gave it much thought.
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I was fact-gathering for some up-to-date stats to use in my
presentation at the
ASTC Conference, ”Improving Your
Practice from a Business Perspective,” with my session
focusing on the use of iPads in Law, and I was a
bit surprised. Maybe this helps explain why all of my iPad Apps
for Lawyers Reviews have been so popular?
Reported 6/6/2011 at Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide
Developers Conference) 2011:
25 million iPads, 450K apps, 90K iPad apps, $2.5 billion
to developers – all in just 14 months!
Source TiPb.com
That’s a lot of iStuff.
For a little bonus, here’s some iData from
Wikipedia:
Apple released the first iPad in April 2010, and sold 3
million of the devices in 80 days. During 2010, Apple sold 14.8
million iPads worldwide, representing 75 percent of tablet PC
sales at the end of 2010. By the release of the iPad 2 in March
2011, more than 15 million iPads had been sold more than all
other tablet PCs combined.
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There’s been quite a flurry of activity recently, with
updates to several apps and software I’ve reviewed here over the
past few months. Links to all apps and software are located in
the original reviews.
TrialPad has added Dropbox to version 1.5, and has shown
what version 2.0 will look like. While it looks good, they are
holding it back for release until they’re certain they have all
of the bugs flushed out. I can’t blame them, although I would
have expected to see it sooner – especially after showing it off
at ABA Techshow. More supported file types, display of multiple
pages and zooms are all on the list.
The Deponent App
One of the biggest drawbacks with this app was corrected
shortly after I reviewed it and reported that the Public Folder
in Dropbox was used to store trial exhibits. Now, a folder named
“Deponent” is created, which prevents others from having
potentially easy (no password required) access.…
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Date Published: Jul 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm
With the ASTC (American Society of Trial Consultants) Annual
Conference in Seattle this week (I’m speaking on Thursday, in
case you’re going to attend), it seems appropriate that the newly
redesigned blog aggregator, “The Red Well,”
has just been launched. The Red Well features a fresh and
constantly updating source of some of the best material online,
for those interested in reading great articles submitted by the
diverse membership of the ASTC. Jury Consultants, Trial
Presentation Consultants, Litigation Graphics Consultants, and
other top-level professionals offer their best, all assembled for
you in one convenient and free location. Did I mention this is
FREE? Please Click the “TWEET” button below to help spread the
word!
All materials Copyright Ted Brooks.
http://www.litigationtech.com
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A Hip Recall Discussion
will take place at Mass Tort Seminar
