Assumption of Risk and How it Affects a Personal Injury Case

January 13, 2023

When seeking legal help for your accident, whether it be work-related or otherwise, you’ll most likely hear your legal team refer to the “assumption of risk.” The assumption of risk will come up in your case when discussing who is liable for the damages. At Turnbull, Holcomb & LeMoine, PC, …

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$9 Million Settlement – Catastrophic Injury Car Crash Case

January 12, 2023

The Haggard Law Firm’s Pedro Echarte and co-counsel Angel Diaz of Kirshner, Groff & Diaz have obtained a $9,000,000 settlement in a catastrophic injury car crash case. On March 12, 2021, Defendant Luis Iraheta traveled on vacation to Florida with a friend. Mr. Iraheta rented a Lamborghini Urus …

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The Initial DOL Retrospective Review Approaches

January 12, 2023

The Department of Labor (“DOL”) rule requirement continues with the fast-approaching filing date for an investment adviser’s initial Retrospective Review. While we anticipate assisting many investment advisers with their completion of this new requirement, it is important to understand its purpose and components. For this reason, I asked our colleague, …

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$2 Million Policy Limit Settlement in Catastrophic Injury Case

January 11, 2023

The Haggard Law Firm’s Douglas McCarron has obtained a $2 Million policy limit settlement in a catastrophic injury negligent security case. Attorney Douglas McCarron In the early morning hours of July 16, 2017, Haggard Law’s client Reinero Fuentes was assaulted in the parking area of a strip …

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Whom Can I Sue for a Defective Product?

January 9, 2023

When you purchase a product, you expect it to work as promised. When it doesn’t, the simple solution is to return it and get a new item or a refund. But what if the product is defective and leads to […] …

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Personal Injury Trucking Case Settlement

January 3, 2023

The Haggard Law Firm’s Pedro Echarte, along with co-counsel Mark Stuckey of Kaufman Law obtained a policy limit settlement of more than $980,000 in a trucking personal injury case.  Trial Lawyer Attorney Pedro Echarte The Plaintiff, Glenn Pilzon, was a long-haul trucker based in Georgia. The Defendants, Four …

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Pausing, Processing And Persuasion

January 2, 2023

I was reading an academic article about persuasion science. I paused when I got to the end of a sentence. I wasn’t sure I understood it. After thinking about it for a few seconds, I was sure I hadn’t understood it. (Academic articles are frequently laced with jargon that the authors assume the readers understand. The sentences tend to be long and are packed with information.) I went back and read it again – this time more slowly. Then, I paused again. I understood it better than the first time I had read it, but still needed a little time to think about the subject. This is how most people process what they read. Students who don’t stop to think about what they have just read will likely do poorly on examinations because the ability to remember is closely linked to whether they understood and processed the information. Jurors listening to lawyers and witnesses don’t have the ability to press a pause button so they can think about what they just heard. This blog discusses how lawyers can present information so that jurors will be more likely to remember and be persuaded.

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