Avoid Keeping an Injury Diary
If you’ve ever been injured in an accident such as a motor vehicle, then you may be seeking compensation for damages. Damages to your car is one thing, but to your body is quite another. Soft tissue damage is unseen (another blog post) and can be a prolonged injury.
Some believe keeping an injury diary is a good way to keep track of the increasing severity of their injury overtime. This may sound like a good idea at the outset, but it turns out to work against the injured. Here’s why. Read the rest of this entry »
Just a Number with Insurance Companies
We all have to get insurance if we do certain things like drive. Other forms of insurance are ways of mitigating risk, like life insurance or home insurance.
To complicate matters there are a variety of forms of insurance one can purchase to protect the same thing. Life insurance has ‘term insurance’ or the much maligned ‘universal life‘, but there thousands of iterations.
But what happens if you need to make a claim? Read the rest of this entry »
The Proper Way To Approach DUI Charges and Helpful Tips On Finding An Experienced DUI Attorney
For most people facing DUI charges, their DUI arrest was unexpected. No matter if you were at the bar with your friends or simply having a few beers at home, at some point you made the choice to drive a car and now you’ve been arrested. Depending on the city you are charged in, penalties may vary, but in San Diego, DUI charges will be very strict, and if you are in fact charged with a DUI, you definitely have a lot of turmoil headed your way. Only an experienced San Diego DUI attorney can help you in this type of situation. A DUI attorney has a solid understanding of the court system, knows loop holes in the law, and possible ways to get potentially harmful testimony or evidence tossed out of court. Read the rest of this entry »
The Before and After: What Designation Were you Before law?
Law is a funny business. When you apply to go to law school you honestly get the whole kit and kaboodle. Any tool, clown, and wise ass can apply and succeed in graduating. Of course, this leaves a massive range of expertise when it comes to lawyers. Some have wimpy liberal arts degrees that are only revealed as the mysterious “BA”. Others are legitimate (well maybe not legit, but a bit more interesting than philosophy or English Lit). I’m talking about the difference between the economist, the finance major, or the health sciences grad–not wait, scratch the last one. Read the rest of this entry »
What’s the Difference? Attorney or Lawyer?
When you go around searching for legal assistance do your search for ‘lawyer’ or ‘attorney’? I tested this to see if there was a preference. I would think that people would search ‘lawyer’ more often than attorney. I don’t know why I would assume that, seems to be easier to say, we see it more in the media, and so on….. I checked it out in a quick test on Google Trends and found that, simply in terms of trending words, ‘attorney’ is searched far more than ‘lawyer’. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Just About Mary J?
When I’m browsing through the blog land, or some Q&A forums online, why are 50% of the questions about legalizing marijuana? First off, how can a stoner coherently figure out how to post on an online forum? Secondly, what’s with the volume? Have I missed the marijuana boat? And since when has this become one of the top legal issues to trend on the web?
I looked a bit closer into the phenomenon and noted some trends, take what you wish from the data. Read the rest of this entry »
BP Lawyers Licking Chops
Oh what I wouldn’t do to be a BP lawyer right now. Conversely, what I wouldn’t do to be anybody taking them to court. If you pick any classic Oil Giant vs. Little Guy battle you’ll find a recognizable trend: these babies drag out for EVER. You can pretty much guarantee your mortgage payments for the next 15 years, maybe even 25. The only caveat to the BP disaster is that the spill pissed off people with TV. You can rape rural Ecuador for their oil, but if you do it in the place where TV cameras roll then you’re screwed. Read the rest of this entry »
Relaunch
**Under new ownership!**
Anonymous Law Student has emerged from the wreckage and we’re going to come back with new posts from law students from around the town. Stay tuned for details, and heck, if you like to blog and want an outlet then let us know you’re interested and you can write here and make some cash!