The Nashville Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee has published the seventh edition of Appellate Advocacy: A Handbook on Appellate Practice in Tennessee. The Handbook provides novice and experienced litigators with tips and analysis on practicing in...
On September 7, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit handed down its opinion in U.S. v. Lanier, vacating the convictions of the defendants due to the trial court’s error in failing to investigate the extent of alleged juror misconduct....
In products liability cases, a duty to warn arises when a product is defective or unreasonably dangerous. What happens when a jury finds that the maker of a product had a duty to warn others about danger but the jury can’t agree on whether the product was...
The December 2016 edition of Tennessee Trial Lawyer Magazine featured writing by DPBC lawyers Donald Capparella and Elizabeth Sigreaves. The article, “Dedmon and the Collateral Source Rule” discussed how the recent Tennessee Court of Appeals decision...
Donald Capparella and Elizabeth Sitgreaves recently published the article “Death by a Thousand Cuts: Dedmon and the Collateral Source Rule” in the Fall 2016 edition of The Tennessee Trial Lawyer, which is the official magazine of the Tennessee Trial...
The DPBC Tort Law blog discusses recent case law on an exception to the requirement of expert testimony in certain medical malpractice actions. Spoiler alert: the exception almost never applies…
