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Stop Bullying Scholarship

This Scholarship is Closed Burger Law is dedicated to giving back to the community, and for 2019 we present a new Scholarship Essay Contest! In our previous scholarship competiti...

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Blocking a Late and Tactical Liability Admission By Defense Counsel

Deposed a defendant last week who refused to admit she did anything wrong. She was driving her commercial vehicle, went too fast, slid on ice and snow, spun out perpendicular to the...

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Multiple Experts at Trial

Sometimes a defendant wants to have multiple experts at trial. I oppose this practice. Repetitive and cumulative expert testimony is not helpful to a jury - it is unduly prejudicial...

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How much is your thumb worth in Work Comp?

A: Not much Missouri Workers’ Compensation can feel really unfair sometimes - particularly when you cut off your thumb. Unlike a civil claim, with Missouri Workers’ compensat...

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CLE – How NOT to have your expert struck

Taking a treater's depo and worried about foundation? Naming a bunch of defense experts and wondering if plaintiff's counsel is going to try to strike some of them? Not really sure ...

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Consumer Collection Lawsuits – Part II

Last email newsletter i wrote about consumer debt and how our courts are clogged with collection suits by large credit card and debt companies against Americans. The numbers donâ...

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Consumer Collection Lawsuits – Part I

So, I was sitting in Lincoln County court on Tuesday to set an auto crash case for trial. We represent a client who was hit and needs a surgery. We are hopeful to settle the case,...

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CLE – How NOT to have your expert struck

Taking a treater's depo and worried about foundation? Naming a bunch of defense experts and wondering if plaintiff's counsel is going to try to strike some of them? Not really sure ...

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Court of Appeals Denied

Good news last week - the Court of Appeals denied the Missouri Department of Corrections Motion for Rehearing or Transfer to the Supreme Court. But the case is not over - the Sta...

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Immunity of Governmental Entities and Public Employees

Sovereign immunity has been recognized in Missouri since 1821 and official immunity has been recognized since 1854. Southers v. City of Farmington, 263 S.W.3d 603, 611 (Mo. 2008). ...

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