Out of curiousity, I did a Google search for the Lawsig group I mentioned in an earlier post, and found a lot of familiar names in this article, written by one of the regulars.
Back in the early 1990s, before "the Internet" had achieved any sort of universal coverage, there were small pockets of people living online in various other venues. For some of us, our primary online home was the Legal Forum on Compuserve: LAWSIG.
Long before the Internet and hi-speed broadband, computer users could share ideas with "Bulletin Board Systems", or BBS. I got online back around 1990, with a commercial service called CompuServe. Just as my sons can't imagine life without cable TV, people who have only known Web browsers might have trouble imaging a system where you had a dialup modem, at 2400 baud (or less), with no graphics or links. Not only was the experience crude, but you paid a high hourly rate for the privilege. But Compuserve had a great legal forum.
I'm Bill Marvin (formally William D. Marvin, Esq,). I graduated from Temple Law School in 1981, and since then have represented plaintiffs in the Philadelphia area, 99% of the time. I've worked up and tried cases with car accient, medical malpractice, highway design and maintenance design, product defects. I had my own solo practice, and even spent a few years in a big firm. I'm most comfortable in a smaller firm setting, like Cohen, Placitella & Roth.
I view this blog as a chance to comment about any developments affecting the personal injury field, which is a political hot potato these days. There's a struggle between mighty political forces. Trial lawyers proclaim that they are guardians of public safety and innocent, injured victims. Our opponents claim that we exploit the system to extort windfall jackpots. Both sides are a little self-righteous for my taste, but the truth is a LOT closer to our side.