by Andy Arnold | Aug 31, 2010 | Litigation, Nursing Home Law
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 | Sep 19, 2009 | Litigation, Practice of Law
Trying cases is what I think I do best. There are some lessons that I have learned along the way. Twitter helped be shrink them down to 140 characters or less. Here are my top 10: 1. Cases are won as much by facts forgotten as facts remembered. 2 If truth is in... read more
by Andy Arnold | Aug 9, 2009 | Employment Law, Litigation
I had a jury trial a couple of weeks ago, in which I represented a small business being sued for defamation. There are two types of defamation: (1) Written defamation, which is called libel; and (2) spoken defamation, which is called slander. My case involved... read more
by Andy Arnold | May 16, 2009 | Employment Law, Litigation
E-Mails Can Crack Cases : I have several cases that need cracking. A couple of employment cases that have employers who are inattentive to the case or who have bad memories. Either way, these defendants are not producing much information, and I know that there is more... read more
by Andy Arnold | May 3, 2009 | Litigation, Practice of Law
In many cases, a client can secure legal representation without any out of pocket expense for attorney fees by hiring a lawyer on a contingency fee arrangement. The way a contingency fee works is that a lawyer agrees to be compensated from the proceeds of a settlement... read more
by Andy Arnold | Apr 6, 2009 | Employment Law, Litigation
I meet with people weekly to review severance agreements. Almost all severance agreements include a release of claims. A release of claims is an agreement whereby the one person agrees not to assert claims or file lawsuits against the other. It is logical to wonder... read more