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  • On the Issue of Medical Malpractice Reform

    As many of you probably know, medical malpractice reform is a topic batted around by politicians during election season. Both parties go back and forth about whether the cost of …

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  • The 49th ITLA Annual Institute

    My mentor, Charles R. Vaughan, was the chair of the very first ITLA Institute that took place on a Saturday in December of 1965.   The one-day seminar took place in …

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  • A useful guide to slip-and-fall cases

    When a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, is there a sound?  What came first, the chicken or the egg?  If a person …

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  • New driver in the house

    This coming June, my sweet daughter Josie will be 16 years old.  That means, yes, a long-standing American rite of passage is available to her – getting her driver’s license. …

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  • How much auto insurance do you need?

    I am not an insurance agent.  I don’t sell insurance.  And to tell you the truth, I really don’t like insurance companies. But if  you have an automobile, it’s a …

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  • My mentor and the value of persistence

    This is my mentor – Charles R. Vaughan. He’s been practicing law over 50 years. My first position as an attorney was at his firm, Vaughan and Vaughan, in Lafayette, …

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