Everybody thinks a lawsuit is all about antagonism and lawyers and people fighting with each other. And yet we have this peculiar term in my profession: “Friendly Suit”.

I told a friend recently that I was going to Court for…

“He whose bread I eat, his song I sing.” (Ancient proverb.)

“The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration…

-All was not as it seemed with Senator John Edwards’ family man image.

I was talking to my friend Bobbie a few years ago when John Edwards was running for President — and before it was known that he was…

By Gregory Haubrich

Attorney At Law

Foshee & Yaffe

A jury trial is a formal proceeding in a courtroom. There is a judge, a jury, a court reporter, a bailiff, lawyers, litigants, witnesses, exhibits, and sometimes spectators. Witnesses usually do…

- “I think, therefore I am” is a philosophical proposition French writer Rene’ Descartes.

Metaphysics is the philosophical inquiry into what existence really is: What is real? What is reality really like? Rene Descartes answered the existential question, “Am I…

By Greg Haubrich

Attorney At Law

(An excerpt from my forthcoming book, Snap!)

-My Father, Harold Haubrich

In order to really consider my Dad you have to be watching a Twins game. It’s Twins 3, Red Sox 0, Morneau…

By Gregory Haubrich

Foshee & Yaffe

You’d be surprised at how careful good personal injury lawyers are about what cases they take. In general the public thinks that we can take any person with any complaint and get them some…

By Gregory Haubrich

Foshee & Yaffe

In my previous edition of Butter’s Blog, Part I explored why lawsuits are so expensive. In Part II, we are going to break down the costs of getting your case to trial. To…

-Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall

When I was a law student I happened to be in Washington, D.C. so I went to watch oral argument at the United States Supreme Court. It was 1985. The case was about a lady…

With the continued rolling thunder of earthquakes in central Oklahoma, more people are buying earthquake coverage on their homeowners insurance.  Unfortunately, limiting clauses in the insurance policies make this relatively inexpensive coverage kind of useless unless we have a HUGE…

Screech!!!  Boom!!  Crash!!

You sit there stunned.  You didn’t even know it had deployed but there is an acrid smell of dust in the air and your airbag is hanging off your steering wheel like a limp bag.  You don’t…

Right now I’m working on a personal injury case where a couple got rear-ended.  They, and their passenger, were injured.  One of my clients has two herniated discs is his low back, which is a serious and very painful permanent…