TLV Guest Blog

June 14, 2022

Can You Sue for Pain and Suffering After a Car Accident?

Minnesota is considered a no-fault insurance state. This means that if you are injured in a car accident, you receive coverage for medical costs up to your insurance policy limits without having to file a lawsuit or prove that someone else was to blame. Due to how no-fault insurance states …

June 14, 2022

Prosthetic Limb Denials: What Happens if Your Insurer Refuses to Act in Good Faith?

Advances in prosthetic limbs have given amputees a chance at resuming a higher quality of life. However, some insurers have denied coverage for prosthetics for bad faith reasons. Losing a limb can be a devastating experience. However, modern medicine has advanced to the point where amputees can recover much of

June 14, 2022

Prosthetic Limb Denials: What Happens if Your Insurer Refuses to Act in Good Faith?

Advances in prosthetic limbs have given amputees a chance at resuming a higher quality of life. However, some insurers have denied coverage for prosthetics for bad faith reasons. Losing a limb can be a devastating experience. However, modern medicine has advanced to the point where amputees can recover much of …

May 31, 2022

Caring for Our Colleagues

Q. In a profession with a higher incidence of mental illness and addiction than society at large, are we doing enough to care for our colleagues? A. Like lawyers themselves, our profession places a low priority on wellness …

May 27, 2022

Removing Retainers

Q. If I don’t take retainers, I won’t need a trust account at all. Can’t I avoid this whole problem by billing for my work after it’s completed? A. You can—if you wish to trade one problem for a more …

May 23, 2022

Leveling the Playing Field

Q. I read that Maryland’s Bar Counsel tried to deprive accused lawyers of an equal right to discovery in disciplinary cases. Whatever happened to fundamental fairness? A. “Fundamental fairness” is a work in progress — progress that may only be achieved through vigilance in asserting the …

May 16, 2022

What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us

There are “the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns” which is how former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld described some things we know that we don’t know, and other things that we don’t know that we don’t know.  In the general public, there are people who enjoy the challenge of learning new things, and others whose brains resist having to do the mental work of learning. It might be compared to those who engage in physical exercise, and those who are couch potatoes. Jurors who do not relish the work of learning will resort to so-called “common sense” which Einstein characterized as “nothing more than a deposit of prejudices.” Prejudice, in this sense, is to resort to that which is believed to be true, rather than arriving at the truth after thoughtful analysis. In other words, to pre-judge. These jurors do not know what they don’t know, and are typically not inclined to change their pre-judgments, even when skilled trial lawyers are trying mightily to educate them.

April 29, 2022

Natalia Bialkowska, NB Law Firm

Law has always been my dream job. I am one of those people who knew what she wanted to do since super early …

April 29, 2022

Lenny Rodriguez, Esq

My story stems from the mean streets of NYC, growing up in the height of the crack era epidemic (1980’s). The only way out …

April 28, 2022

Translating The Science

Academic psychologists have been unlocking the mysteries of how people accept or reject persuasion and arrive at decisions. But, like lawyers and their legalese, social scientists often use a dizzying array of overly-complicated descriptions. The concepts and discoveries are important, but often explained in what might be described as speaking in tongues. Here is an example (and please read to the end):

April 27, 2022

Practice Management Software

I’m one of those legal dinosaurs that still keeps handwritten ledgers. Are there specific programs I should use? A. Yes. And there are lots of excellent programs to choose from.Just run a search of …

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