Toxic Substances

• Oil Spill Producing Slick Lawyers

  Dottie Perry | May 13, 2010 4:04 PM | 3 CommentsMobile, AL

  As a profession, we need to reevaluate our approach to the BP Oil Spill. I heard a Gulf Shores, Alabama, business owner say this week that he had gotten over 30 phone calls from attorneys seeking...

• BP - Hire Locally, Please

  Pete Mackey | May 11, 2010 7:35 AM | 3 CommentsMobile, AL

  I have a house at Dauphin Island, a barrier island 30 miles south of Mobile, Alabama. My next door neighbor owns a charter fishing boat. During a regular summer week, the boat will be chartered five...

• The BP oil spill demonstrates that caps are wrong

  Pete Burns | May 14, 2010 11:10 AM | 2 CommentsMobile, AL

  Transocean it will rely upon a law that makes the owner of a sunken vessel liable only for its value after the accident. Transocean says there was $27 million worth of oil being held on the rig when...

• BP Spill Surpasses Exxon-Valdez

  Dottie Perry | May 27, 2010 6:25 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  The similarities to Exxon-Valdez should not be so plentiful, but unfortunately they are as numerous and clear as the Gulf is murky. Twenty years after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, that region has yet...

• MDL Deadline is April 20, 2011

  Dottie Perry | April 18, 2011 11:49 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The short form designed to allow claimants to join the Multi-District Litigation currently ongoing in New Orleans is due by Wednesday, April 20, 2011. There is no fee to file, and it can be filed...

• This Disaster Is Just The Tip Of The Ice Berg

  Pete Mackey | May 19, 2010 8:12 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Dauphin Island, Alabama is a special place. It is a barrier island located at western side of the mouth of Mobile Bay. It is unpretentious, quiet and beautiful. If you don't like sand, fishing,...

• Valdez Revisited

  Pete Burns | May 17, 2010 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The judicial branch of government is the only forum the average citizen has to stand toe to toe with the corporate behemoths and get a fair shake. Not only are the litigants guaranteed a fair trial...

• Big Oil Rigging the Game

  Clay Rossi | May 15, 2010 11:45 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  What is a black swan? It’s not a new cell phone model or a chic new wine label or even a bird. Coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book, The Black Swan, black swans are events which...

• How Much is Too Much?

  Dottie Perry | May 15, 2010 10:43 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  While it is undisputed that there are a continuing litany of errors associated with BP's handling of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, there is one gross oversight no one seems to be...

• Alabama State Bar Mopping up Oily Lawyers

  Dottie Perry | May 15, 2010 10:03 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Not very long after my last post, I received the following mass-email message from the Alabama State Bar: Gulf Coast Oil Spill & Solicitation The officers of the [Alabama] State Bar thought it...