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Rewind: Ken speaks at the 2015 Meadowlands Seminar

November 30, 2015 by Levinson and Stefani Leave a Comment

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Levinson and Stefani founding partner Ken Levinson recently traveled to the Garden State to be an invited faculty member in the New Jersey Association for Justice 2015 Meadowlands Seminar, providing insight into two specific areas: child injury cases and the benefits of conducting focus groups.

The first session, titled “Maximizing Damages in Child Injury Cases,” concentrated on liability and trial strategies and three categories of injuries: brains, bones and burns. Levinson touched on the process of dealing with traumatic injuries by consulting with appropriate physicians and conducting extensive interviews with family members, among other things.

Levinson also led a session titled “Learn from Legends,” giving advice and explaining the benefits of using focus groups to better understand potential jurors. Levinson talked about the “blind spots” that lawyers frequently overlook, and how the use of a focus group can minimize dangers and maximize chances of winning the case by employing already-tested strategies.

Other topics during the three-day event included discussions regarding criminal law, tort law, proving standard of care and others.

The Meadowlands program featured 19 seminars, where speakers covered a broad range of legal areas as requested by current and former attendees. More than 600 people have attended since the seminar’s inception.

The NJAJ is headquartered in Trenton, New Jersey, a statewide association of over 2,500 members in private practice and public service, paralegals, law clerks, law students and law school graduates.

Levinson’s next speaking engagement takes place this Thursday at the Florida Association for Justice in St. Augustine, FL. He will lead the “Hell on the Highways: Motorcycles, Trucks and Roads” seminar, teaching fellow trial lawyers how to represent their clients more effectively.

Do You Need A Child Injury Lawyer?

February 20, 2015 by Levinson and Stefani Leave a Comment

Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

A growing percentage of children suffer significant injuries at the hands of their favorite toys, according to the Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Based on a study by the CIRP, several emergency room-related mishaps involving children have jumped a noteworthy 40 percent in the U.S since 1990. Kids under the age of 15 accounted for nearly nine out of ten injuries.  This eye-popping rate has some people analyzing the impact of such a dramatic rise.

An estimated 3 billion toys are sold annually in the U.S., most of which prove to be harmless. Some toys, however, pose higher risks than others, a fact that the CIRP was quick to point out with foot-pedal and high-powered motor scooters, a long-time popular commodity for kids.

The report pointed out that scooters helped make categories like “falls” and “collisions” the most common type of injury. The total percentages: 46 percent for falls; 22 percent for collisions. Accidents involving scooters tended to be more severe than any other, which has proven to be the case ever since toys like the Razor scooter became one of the most popular toys on the market at the turn of the Millennium.

In 2000, Razor sold an estimated 5 million scooters in six months. A report in the journal of Clinical Pediatrics reported that nearly 110,000 kids were admitted to the hospital because of scooter-related injuries in 2001, up from 25,000 in 1999. That’s more than 4 times the amount of injuries! Despite these staggering statistics, the popularity of scooters continues to extend all over the world, even as similar injury numbers are reported. Israel banned children from bringing scooters to school earlier in the fall due to a serious scooter-related head injury.

When a child is injured, as a parent your first instinct is to wonder what went wrong. That could mean any number of things: carelessness, negligence, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. If it happens to be the result of a defective product, then your next feeling is likely anger, frustrations and a vigilant pledge to get even with the company that  allowed a defective product to go unchecked, ultimately inflicting harm upon your child.

What’s important to know is that every child injury case is different. Dealing with a defective product, especially, can be tricky a battle to wage; if the defective toy is the merchandise of a big company, your odds of litigating in a timely, cordial way are almost slim to none. That’s because big companies prepare for – and save money for – cases like this, working with seemingly unlimited legal resources at their disposal. You’ll want to ask yourself some questions:

  • Can you determine whether the accident was the result of defective equipment?
  • What were the circumstances of the accident (i.e. who was involved, how did it happen, where did it happen)?
  • Do state laws protect me in matters like this?
  • How do I objectively evaluate the situation?

But one of the most important questions you should ask yourself is, “Do I need a lawyer”?  Getting answers to the above questions, and any other questions you may have, can help save you time and money, and a lawyer can help you sort out the situation.  Our firm offers free consultations for families of child injury victims, and we’re happy to give you the guidance you may need.

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