Slate’s Law Blog
Vicarious Liability and DWI Accidents
The messaging of advertisements for personal injury law firms that you see on billboards, banner ads, and short-form commercials that you must watch before your favorite clickbait videos if you are too poor to afford YouTube Premium is almost comically simplistic....
Staying Safe on Summer Road Trips in New Mexico
The densely populated Northeast Corridor is not for you, and the endless destination wedding atmosphere of the Southeast feels almost as false as the Disney World glitz of Florida. California is nice to look at, but its surplus of social climbers and nepo babies...
Underage DWI Accidents
Alcohol consumption is a major risk factor for traffic accidents that involve fatalities or severe injuries or fatalities, and so is lack of driving experience. About a third of fatal motor vehicle accidents involve a driver who was drunk or under the influence of...
Driver Flees the Scene After Striking Water Tanker Near Lybrook
In most collisions between a passenger vehicle and a commercial truck, the occupants of the smaller vehicle sustain more serious injuries. Companies that own and operate commercial trucks must carry commercial liability insurance policies with multimillion-dollar...
Recent Motor Vehicle Accidents in Las Cruces
Driver Flees the Scene After Striking Water Tanker Near Lybrook In most collisions between a passenger vehicle and a commercial truck, the occupants of the smaller vehicle sustain more serious injuries. Companies that own and operate commercial trucks must carry...
What Does New Mexico’s DWI Dismissal Scandal Mean for Your Personal Injury Case?
Civil courts and criminal courts have more differences than similarities. When you visit a personal injury attorney for a consultation, and you realize that your medical bills after an accidental injury are unaffordable, your lawyer will inevitably spend a lot of time...
Recent Motorcycle Accidents in New Mexico
Most motorcycle rides go the way you planned for them to go, and they make for good stories, as long as your audience is amenable to tales of the freedom you feel as the wind rushes past you on the open road. Motorcycle accidents, by contrast, do not make for good...
Driver Loses Consciousness Behind the Wheel and Causes Multi-Vehicle Collision
The warnings on prescription bottles range from boring and mundane, such as “may be taken on an empty stomach or with food,” to the painfully obvious, such as “for external use only, do not ingest,” to the perplexing, such as “do not eat grapefruit within three hours...
How to Deal With an Unfair Police Report After a Car Accident
Memory is notoriously unreliable. Criminology professors know this when they ask their spouse to visit class unexpectedly, have a brief conversation with the professor in the front of the classroom, and then leave; the students’ descriptions of the apparently...
Legal Actions Over Holiday Collisions Can Last Well Into the New Year
Most people who make New Year’s resolutions give them up quickly; the gym equipment that people buy from Amazon on January 1 barely gets a single use, if it even gets used at all. Meanwhile, at the beginning of every year, the Internet is abuzz about Divorce Monday,...