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Six Months a Laboratory Rat

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…
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Shhh…It’s a Secret

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…
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Thirty Five Years in Practice!

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…
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Back For More

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,…
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Grafting Solutions

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…
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In (K)need of Speed

Policing is a dangerous profession. We all know that. But most of us think in terms of truly dire injuries or even fatalities, usually involving firearms. Those are all terrible situations and when we see them on the news, they make us recognize how special the brave men and women who choose this pr…
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Shouldering The Load Over the Long Term

This is the third installment of my blog on my recovery from my October 1st rotator cuff surgery. The good news is that my shoulder range of motion is coming along ahead of schedule. We are just at the point where strength improvement enters into the mix—more on that later. So everything is great,…
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What’s Yours is Yours; What’s Mine is Yours Too?

We are the masters of our destiny, kings and queens of our castle. We live in a world where we can choose everything we experience—our playlists, podcasts, social media connections—so you would assume you have complete control of what happens when you settle your personal injury, workers’ comp…
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Rotator Cuffs and Spinning

I’ve written about rotator cuff injuries to the shoulder multiple times previously, here and here. So if you are a regular reader of this blog, you should be conversant with much of the basic terminology and anatomy. I know I am, especially having worked with many clients who have had these injuri…
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A Good Old-Fashioned Personal Injury Auto Settlement

Sometimes, I write about interesting or unique cases. Other times, I write about my frustrations with how people drive inattentively (and to go fully tangential, yesterday, while I was in the middle of a bicycle time trial, a truck decided to ignore me going nearly 30 miles an hour and block the ent…
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Categories: Personal Injury