Ask Your Legal Questions Join us live on Sunday, January 6, 2019. Football season is about over, and it is time to return to the 30-minute long legal call-in show, NBC 15 LawCall, here in Mobile, AL. As it has been for roughly a decade, the show is on at 10:30 Sunday...
A friend asked me why so many advertising attorneys were saying they will make having a legal case easy. I told her if they go easy; then, they are settling for too little money. A good attorney knows you must work hard for those big payouts. Here is how it works: If...
watched the people in Florida struggle after the last hurricane, and know it is just a matter of time until something hits us here in Mobile. I talked to a few Florida friends over the Thanksgiving holiday, and they wanted me to make sure you were knowledgeable about...
So many people have asked me about the $54 million lawsuit over a pair of pants (see You Be the Judge: Are Your Pants Worth Millions?) that I thought I would bring you up to date on some of the strange facts surrounding the case. The pants owner (a judge) who...
Alabama Yea Alabama Christmas Lights We in Alabama like our Christmas lights. And we will fight our cousins or the local municipality to keep them shining brightly. But do you want the Griswold’s, the family in the movie Christmas Vacation, living next to you? People...
FACTS: A dry cleaner returned a pair of pants. The owner of the pants claimed they were not his pants. He sued for $67 million dollars. The biggest piece of evidence was a sign that hung in the dry cleaner’s window that stated, “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” It...
Seems you can walk anyway in LA but not in AL You can talk all you want about distracted driving and whether a walker or a driver has the right of way, but in Alabama there is one law that tops all of this. Unlike most states, Alabama has a contributory...
If a medical professional or business did you wrong, my strong advice is to start early if you want the best chance at getting a good result. It is tougher to win a medical malpractice case in Alabama than most any other state in the nation. In fact, it is often...
Artist interpretation. An advertising photo by London based fashion photographer Joshua Caudwell. Joshua Caudwell ©2018 We get questions here at LawCall. Here is a real email. What would you advise? I have done a little editing on the email but not much. EMAIL: I...
You are engaged. You break up. Who gets the ring? It is a typical lawyer question. I, too, have gotten it … several times. The main arguments are: it is a gift, so the former bride keeps it, OR it is given as a condition of getting married and since there is no...