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What I’m Reading, January 7, 2015

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Will Google Cars Eviscerate the Personal Injury Bar? Eric Turkewitz, New York Personal Injury Law Blog, December 23, 2014

With human error crashes reduced by software that automatically stops or slows the car, the number of broken bodies and cars will be reduced. The number of deaths will be reduced. Your insurance premiums will be (theoretically) reduced.

And that means the need for my services as a personal injury attorney will be reduced. (Likewise reduced will be the need for trauma health teams and emergency rooms, not to mention car body shops.)

Has anyone ever cheered being put out of business? I am. Because I drive, too.

See also Personal ​Injury Lawyer Says Self-Driving Cars Will End His Business, Damon Lavrinc, Jalopnik, December 31, 2014

The Untouchables: America’s Misbehaving Prosecutors, And The System That Protects Them, Radley Balko, Huffington Post, August 1, 2013 Continue reading →

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A Prosecutor Learns About Jail, Hopes We All Appreciate His Epiphany

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As near as I can tell, Bobby Constantino means very well. The former Boston-area prosecutor has some efforts to his name aimed at facilitating people’s exit from the big house, he reached out to the classmates of a Boston Marathon bombing victim, and he went to some rather extreme lengths to protest the initial handling of the George Zimmerman case. His recent piece in The Atlantic, however, is basically the epiphany of someone who spent years sending people to jail, but only just now figured out that jail sucks. I Storified some good tweets about it (if you can’t see it embedded below, go here):

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