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You may be wondering, “why is he still writing about his darn shoulder surgery?” Hey, it’s my blog and my shoulder, so I’m allowed to write about what I want. In all seriousness, I have a reason for writing one more time about all of this. By the time you read this, I will have met with…

Most of the time, when I achieve a great settlement, arbitration award, or verdict for a client, I want to tell the world. Most of the time, my clients are only too happy to allow me to do that, provided their names and specific identifying information isn’t included. But there are exceptions. One…

May 10th will be the anniversary of my 35 years as a lawyer. It’s been a wild ride, and I couldn’t have imagined at the start it would be as interesting, successful, or fulfilling as it has been. And it’s not over yet! A lot of lawyers write on LinkedIn about how wonderful they are. I hate tha…

Does your back hurt? Do you think about your back? Do back exercises? Had surgery, acupuncture, injections, or physical therapy to help your back? Do you think about how long you have to sit or on what surface when invited to travel or attend an event? If you answered yes to any of those questions,…

By the time you read this, I will finally have completed physical therapy following my October 1, 2024 rotator cuff and adhesive capsulitis (that’s “frozen shoulder” to non-medical nerds) surgery. In other words, five months post-surgery, I am now free to not go to physical therapy. But that d…

Yes, my client fired me. Or did I fire my client? It’s hard to explain exactly who did what, but let me give a little bit of background. My client was a long-time acquaintance. I’d known him for decades. He was a professional who had referred some of his own clients to me when they needed a pers…

This is now number four of my series of blogs about my recovery from rotator cuff surgery and its attendant ups, downs, complications, and progress. Last time I wrote, I was fighting some knee pain that was slowly resolving, while simultaneously working in physical therapy to improve my shoulder ran…

You’ve heard the calls frequently that workers’ compensation recipients are “gaming the system” and sitting around at home collecting checks for not working. If your own opinions run along these lines, you probably also believe the attorneys who represent petitioners (the workers’ compensa…