02:33 PM CDT on Thursday, June 30, 2005
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The state of Texas sued one of the nation’s largest drug companies Thursday, alleging Merck & Co. misrepresented the safety of the painkiller Vioxx.
State Attorney General Greg Abbott said Merck pushed to have Vioxx on the state’s list of approved medicine covered [...]
For those lawyers who need a little Continuing Legal Education credit, here’s a very brief seminar on exceptions to the hearsay rule. Thank you to Lisa Solomon for discovering this hilarious jewel.
Lawyers who represent injury victims frequently need to know the Statute of Limitations in a state other than their own. Pennsylvania attorney Edgar Snyder has a good list of state Statutes on his Web site.
Consumer rights in Texas are being weakened every two years, when the Legislature meets, and frequently at other times in the cases handed down by the Texas Supreme Court. One of the laws that has not been revoked yet is the Texas Lemon Law. This law gives buyers of new automobiles recourse in certain specific [...]
Any lawyer who regularly represents injured or disabled people should be a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, ATLA. This is the largest plaintiff’s bar association in the world, and works very hard to support consumer rights in the United States, as well as to support the rights of trial lawyers.
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, NAMI, is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic and other severe anxiety disorders, autism and pervasive developmental disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and [...]
The Americans With Disabilities Act touches us in many ways. For instance, see my earlier post on an article I wrote regarding ways solo and small firm lawyers must alter their offices to accommodate the Act. The preceding link is to the official Web site for the Act.
If you practice law, the Act does apply [...]
A simple site that lists the local rules of the civil district courts of Dallas County, Texas.
The Texas Association of Counties has a nifty map that links to all the official county Web Sites in Texas.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today 5-4 that local governments may exercise the right of eminent domain for the purpose of private development that will bring more tax money to the government than the homes that will be destroyed.
The case is Kelo et al v. City of New London, 04-108.
I don’t like this decision at [...]
This search site has the potential of dragging me away from Google. Info.com searches across a number of other search engines, including Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Altavista, and others. That’s not new, but Info.com also shows tabs for Web, News, Pictures, Shop & Compare, Yellow Pages, etc. So you can do your search, then click [...]
If you’re geographically-challenged like I am, you may need help keeping up with stories about strange foreign lands such as Korea, Iran, or Nebraska. The site you need is the University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Map Collection. You’ll find maps of most anywhere, divided up most any way. There’s always a list of maps of current [...]
I wouldn’t trust this site for a translation of a legal document, but it can be helpful in a pinch. Bablefish will translate a block of text or an entire Web page from and to a surprising variety of languages. It’s great for those times you need to translate a Web site from Dutch to [...]
I’m always surprised when people tell me they don’t know this simple trick. When you enter a Web site as a Favorite in the root Favorite directory, you can give it a one-letter name. Then you only have to type that one letter in the address bar, hit Enter, and you’re taken to the site.
For [...]
An amazing variety of consumer publications can be found at the Federal Consumer Information Center. This is what used to be called the Government Printing Office, in Pueblo, Colorado. I guess the newer name is more descriptive, and the site is definitely worth a visit.
An early legal research portal is LegalEngine. A very simple interface, with a lot of material behind it.
Jim Calloway, of the Oklahoma Bar association, used to be one of my favorite people, and his Web site, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog, one of my favorite sites. But now he has fallen pretty much to the bottom of my list by tagging me with this Musical Baton "virus."
OK, here go my long-winded [...]
Sacramento attorney Randy Singer put up two of the earliest legal research portal sites. One is Substantive Law, and the other is the Attorney’s Toolbox.
There are quite a few Internet sites that describe medical conditions. The site at MySymptoms adds an interesting function. You can diagnose your own medical problems. You click on certain symptoms, and the site tell you the possible medical diagnoses. It even helps you find a doctor, dentist or hospital.
One of the most daunting challenges to beginning a Social Security Disability practice is the ridiculous number of acronyms you need to learn. The National Organization of Social Security Disability Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) has put up two comprehensive lists of acronyms. The first Acronym Glossary is for general claims and appeals acronyms, and the POMS [...]
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