by Andy Arnold | Aug 31, 2010 | Litigation
In most nursing home cases, it is all about the standard of care. In South Carolina, a nursing home negligence case will generally have an experienced and knowledge nurse who testifies that there was a breach of the standard of care (if not multiple breaches). In this... read more
by Andy Arnold | Jul 21, 2010 | Practice of Law
I heard someone discussing the McDonald’s hot coffee case the other day, and like most folks, the speaker knew nothing about the real facts of that case. Regardless, this case still impacts the debate about reform of our civil justice system (i.e., tort reform). A new... read more
by Andy Arnold | Jul 1, 2010 | Book Review, Philosophy of Law, Practice of Law
I like to read. Of course, I like to write also, but this is the first blog post in a month. And likewise, I started and finished only one book in June: Learned Hand: The Man and The Judge by Gerald Gunther. Judge Learned Hand was a name first encountered in law... read more
by Andy Arnold | May 28, 2010 | Employment Law
The most fundamental concept in employment law is “employment at will.” Most employees are employed “at will.” Employment at will is a presumption that applies to employment relationships of an indefinite duration. An employee at will can be... read more
by Andy Arnold | Apr 19, 2010 | Employment Law, Philosophy of Law, Practice of Law
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. * * * The confusion with which I am dealing besets confessedly legal conceptions. Take the fundamental question, What constitutes the law? You will find some text writers telling you that it is something... read more