You asked for it!  We did it! We have been having a great time publishing our new interactive magazine for the iPad, but some of your have told us you feel left out because you don’t have an iPad.  So we decided we have to do something about that! This week we loaded our new YouTube channel with the video interviews that are in the magazine.  We set up a playlist for the November issue – that features Gerry Spence.  And we set up a playlist for the December issue – that features the American Association for Justice president Mary Alice McLarty.  You can watch all of the videos... Read More

AAJ President Mary Alice McLarty recently told me, in an interview for Law Firm Marketing Magazine, that she believes tort reform is a scam.  Masquerading under the phrase “tort reform” these corporate front groups are inundating the media with reports of frivolous lawsuits and deceptive statistics on the rise in the number of trial lawyers.  Massive public relations efforts have been launched to tarnish the reputation of both the legal profession and the civil justice system.  And lawyers with the American Association for Justice firmly believe that these attempts to shift public... Read More

According to Gerry Spence, “The media is owned by the power structure in this country, so we don’t hear from the people, we hear from … the people’s master, the corporate entities of this country who control the people – who own their jobs and who tell them what they should think. And so the corporate media tells the people that lawyers – trial lawyers – are sleaze bugs…[who are] not to be in any way relied upon … [who are] bought and sold…[who] have no basic moral standing.” While remedying this cultural stigma against trial attorneys... Read More

My iPad is my favorite device of all time.  I didn’t say “vice,” I said “device.”  But frankly it is so addictive that some may consider it a vice!  Recent research shows that I am far from alone.  The iPad is fast becoming the most loved device of all time.  One of the things that I do each day is read news magazines on the iPad.  I no longer subscribe to magazines that don’t have a digital version. Something else I really like is that the “Newsstand app” appears on the home page of my iPad – and of every iPad by default.  Next month... Read More