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To jurors, do your associates and paralegals seem like creeps*
Juries are not dumb and miss little. Jurors watch you and yours in the courtroom, the back of the courtroom, hallways, restrooms, parking lots, restaurants. Whether or not you think the people you bring to trial with you are capable of looking or acting like stone "creeps" at any moment during the roller-coaster ride of a trial, explain to these men and women in advance the importance of "maintaining" a demeanor which appears professional yet likable, amiable, fair and genuinely good-hearted...

A Small, Cute Halloween
We had our first Halloween in the 'burbs last week, and the boy's first Halloween ever. Our house was...

MADD asks Everyone to be Safe this Halloween
Mothers Against Drunk Driving issued a statement asking people to designate a sober driver this Halloween weekend during festivities. The group is especially concerned since Halloween falls on a Friday this year...

Daubert and Halloween
It's the day after Halloween, but Mark Herrmann's punny little Halloween-Daubert post is still midly amusing. (Mildly, Mark). Here's an excerpt: "Multidistrict litigation courts are often confronted with evaluating limited or evolving scientific and medical theories and evidence...

CO - Halloween: Hazards or hysteria
View the article here 10/31/2008 By BRIAN NEWSOME - The Gazette Every Halloween, warnings fly about poisoned candy, tooth decay, abductors and the like. Real-life Halloween scares, after all, are good fodder for a mass media always hungry for holiday-themed news...

more scary Halloween laws against sex offenders
Both Halloween and Election Day are coming.  So, we’re not at all surprised that politicians across the nation are once again posing as Heroes in the fight against the Great Sex Offender Trick-or-Treat Bogeyman...

Halloween Sex Offender Restrictions Roundup
As Halloween approaches, law enforcement officials are advising parents to check state sex offender registries before letting their children go Trick-or-Treating. Sex offenders in Missouri are challenging the further restrictions related to Halloween activities...

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
TEA-21 - Plus Law 105-178

Casper Halloween Figures
Recalled due to High Lead Levels

Underage DUI
Minor injured in car accident after a Halloween party is awarded $1.5 million.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...