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This is the time of year when you wonder how you survived the holidays and think about the coming years activities. My first January job is to decide what I will write for this year’s supplement to Slip and Fall Practice. When I was first approached by James Publishing in 1986 to write a book [...]
Hot Summer Nights
Hot weather has finally hit the west coast. Normally, our high desert home in Apple Valley often sees temperatures in excess of 100 degrees for much of July and August. The roses lose their bloom and my golden retriever seems to move only from the shade into the swimming pool. Our attempt to escape the [...]
Step on the Ball
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At one time or another, we have all been admonished by the cliché “get on the ball.” During my teenage years, my summer and weekend jobs were to work in our family logging operation as a swamper, choker setter and chaser. During the summer, logging [...]
Take Time to Spread Your Wings!
The 2009 Slip and Fall Practice Supplement is finished and ready for shipment. Inspections in Sacramento, Denver, Tucson, Reno, San Diego and Los Angeles are finished. Reports, declarations and motions are up to date. The calendar is clear for a couple of weeks and I am outta here! The Sierras are calling. [...]
There Must be Something in the Water!
Fifty years ago this month was my maiden voyage into the world of law and forensics. As a low ranking staff member in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at Oregon State University, I was an acting supervisor of several technicians and graduate students who performed routine testing and analysis of forage and blood/tissue samples [...]
Look Over Your Shoulder!
Some of the best shots are the result of careful planning taking into consideration background, lighting, camera angle, extensive calculations of location of the sun at a given hour and selection of the right camera body, lens, filters, tripods, etc. Other good shots just happen.
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Don&amp;#039;t Kick the Sleeping Lion
I was rummaging through some old photographs and found one I took a couple of years ago. I think this one will illustrate a lesson in trial tactics. Getting this shot was truly a serendipitous event; I was trying to capture an early moon rise when I discovered this old male lion [...]
Reflections
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Sometimes there seems to be no end of the writing I must do each month. In the first 3 weeks of March, I have written over 40 thousand words in liability analysis reports, plus an additional 20 thousand on this year’s supplement to Slip and Fall Practice. Each [...]
Conventional Wisdom
This is another photograph from my book, Eastern Sierra. I was looking for photo that would illustrate the point that sometimes conventional wisdom and preconceived notions could result in the loss of a great shot or could result in the loss of an otherwise viable case.
In the fall of 2007, 14 compatriots and I [...]
Sometimes it&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#039;s what&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#039;s Hidden that Counts
There are times when the obvious is misleading. There are many cases that appear to be routine accidents with little or no attributable negligence or a good liability case that is weak on damages. At first impression, the case may not be worth pursuing because of the low expectations of return. It [...]
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