Vested Interest - Philip H. Corboy, Jr., President 2008-2009

February 2009 Issue
“In every democracy, the people get the democracy they deserve.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831

We’ve now elected a new President, a stronger Senate and a forceful House of Representatives. Our former president has left us with a plethora of extreme challenges, century-worst deficits, a war on two fronts, utter chaos in respect to our global reputation and a miserable excuse for an environmental policy. And the financial mess that we’re stuck with will take years, not months, to get out of, if we’re lucky. [View Full Issue]

July 2008 Issue
A family comes to see you following the death of a father and husband. The family includes his widow and children, all of whom are devastated and lost as a result of his death following a routine angioplasty with a defective medical device. The case seems solid, your experts and treating physicians all support your theory, and there is a history of the device being defective. You file your lawsuit with complete confidence that you’ll at least be able to do something, however minimal in the big picture, for this grieving family. [View Full Issue]

June 2008 Issue
When I was a young man starting my career in the turbulent 70’s, 55 years seemed an awfully long time for anything to last, much less an organization as disparate as a group as trial lawyers. After all, I was a member of the Baby Boomer generation and was told–quite emphatically, I remember–not to trust anybody over 30. While it has always been thought to have been written by John Lennon, Mick Jagger, or Jim Morrison, or even a late-night amalgam of all three, it’s actually been traced to Jack Weinberg, a free speech advocate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965. [View Full Issue]

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