Sometimes the other side knows something you don't Obvious, right? Of course it is, but it is also something that is easily overlooked or...

Change is constant, but the past is instructive Over the last few weeks, I have been moving from a house where we have lived 23 years....

"Object to form." Spare me. Recently, I was deposing a defense expert. The expert was highly credentialed, a very impressive guy. He was...

My son, also named Brewster, is an arborist. He thinks being 70 feet in the air with a chainsaw is fun - a proclivity he did not inherit...

This week, we closed on the sale of our house. Being the client was, of course, something of a role reversal for me. I came away with...

Recently, I was defending the deposition of an expert physician. The first defense lawyer was fine. Reasonable questions were asked. The...

Periodically review your service plans and vendor agreements Long ago, I got a cell phone plan that gave me nationwide coverage. The plan...

As a plaintiffs’ lawyer, I am sometimes accused of being too conservative or risk averse. Thirty years of being a medical malpractice...

My son owns a tree work company. Last week, several pieces of equipment had significant mechanical issues. The repairs are expensive, but...

Clients are not lawyers. Seems obvious, doesn’t it? Except that it is not always so. Yesterday, I was negotiating a settlement. A huge...

A year ago, the Covid pandemic shut down the world. At the time, I am not sure anyone knew how it would all play out. I certainly did...

I am extraordinarily lucky. When I was a young lawyer, I was at a very high-quality insurance defense firm. I learned how to handle...

Most of us deal with a familiar set of characters and institutions. We make judgments and assumptions based on our prior interactions....