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…

Traumatic Brain Injury.  T.B.I.  Closed Head Injury.  Concussion.  Coup-contra coup.

Basically, they all stand for the same thing:  an injury to the brain of the human being, with or without a skull fracture.  TBI is sometimes called the “most under-diagnosed…

Internationality and Truthiness

            Yesterday the President said that “Every nation in the world has been taking advantage of us.  We’re going to put a stop to that.” 

            I thought:   “Every nation?  Jeez, aren’t there just a couple of countries that…

SOL – Statutes of Limitations in Civil Cases in Oklahoma

Statutes of Limitations are deadlines for filing suit. If you don’t file your lawsuit within the Statute of Limitations for that particular kind of case in that particular venue, you…

Mediation and Arbitration
Mediation and arbitration sound like the same thing to many people, but they are actually quite different. They are both used to resolve civil conflicts, but the similarity stops there.

Mediation is relatively new to civil cases…

You’re watching a ball game or a tv show and text is scrolling along at the bottom of the screen, just a few seconds behind the actual action.  There are some misspellings and occasionally a screwed-up word.  If you watch…

Last year we did a case where a 75 year old woman tripped and fell as she was entering the vestibule leading to the restroom of a grocery store.  She fractured her hip and had surgery to repair the fracture…

Assuming I were counsel to the President, I would advise him not to do it. Why? For the same reasons I recommend and advise ALL my clients not to give statements, not to go to the media, and not to…

It’s called “wrongful death”. Maybe it should be called “negligent death” or “premature death”. We’re all going to die, but what would you give for that one extra day? Or, as the old Gospel song says, “Everybody wants to go…

How often to you hear someone say a case is weak because “it’s only circumstantial.”

Or, there’s “It’s just a he said/she said; there’s no evidence to prove it.”

Stop right there. STOP! If you want to understand how wrong…

Last week I was on the road during the Christmas holiday.  My cell phone rang — Bluetooth, of course.  An insurance defense lawyer was calling my clients’ parents and asking for statements about her injuries.  Should they give them?

My…

When a police officer or highway patrolman investigates a collision, he or she puts data from the investigation into a program which then turns out an “Official Oklahoma Traffic Collision Report”. It is absolutely PACKED with data. The front page…

We remember the fallen
We think of the wounded, the scarred, the crippled
We call it a sacrifice
We visit the graves
We call them “fallen heroes”

We play Taps, say some words of honor and remembrance, and fire rifle…