Last week on St Patrick’s Day, March 17, I was visiting Fredericksburg, Virginia, and to my pleasant surprise I found a store owned by folks from Ireland selling Irish stuff. I love those kind of places, and sure enough, I got talking with those folks. It’s interesting to see pockets of Irish all over the [...]

Who would think to rearm a grenade with kids around is totally baffling. A young boy was seriously injured due to someone’s stupidity. Fire power is best left for wars, not as souvenirs kicking around someone’s house. While many people may indeed have old guns, pieces of shrapnel, bullets and other mementoes of serving in [...]

Last week I did a lot of traveling, and spent many hours at airports.  Needless to say I ran into many people, and for some reason or another, I was struck by the feeling that every one of these people had an interesting and fascinating story. So, here I go again with some random thoughts. [...]

As a younger injury lawyer, I really didn’t care much for my competitors. I wanted all the injury cases and I was offended if someone chose another lawyer. I was brash. I was aggressive. I was competitive. To me it was personal. Good guy vs bad guy. Like being in an athletic event. If I’m [...]

I’ve already blogged about many of the people- in-the-know who have recommended injury victims to my office, including police officers, court officials, insurance people, judge(s), and others.  The most recent comes via recommendation of a court stenographer. You’ve seen stenographers. They travel from law firm to law firm and court room to court room transcribing [...]

Following the rules of the road applies to everyone. That includes snowplows. “The way I heard about this case was that it involved a snowplow operator who blew a yield sign,” explained Charlie Donahue, a New Hampshire personal injury lawyer. The way this accident happened was that two teens were headed home in their white [...]

This vehicle rollover killed one and severely injured four others. Falling asleep at the wheel can be fatal. This is a case that Charlie Donahue, a New Hampshire personal injury lawyer, heard about that took place in Idaho and involved several young adults. The odd thing is that it took place early in the morning, [...]