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2008 Brings New Year’s Safety Resolutions
- 1. Pay more attention to home and community safety, which today far surpasses the workplace in accidental death and injury rates.
- 2. Encourage your employer to offer more off-the-job safety education.
- 3. Put away your cell phone and text messages while driving.
- 4. Be an active participant in teens’ learning to drive safely.
- 5. Always read the instructions on medications you are taking, realizing that failure to do so is part of what’s behind a steep increase in accidental poisonings by overdose.
- 6. Help kids understand the dangers of taking someone else’s prescription drugs.
- 7. Refresh your first-aid and CPR training.
- 8. Organize your garage, removing clutter that’s a mess but also dangerous.
- 9. Get in the habit of checking smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detector batteries twice a year.
- 10. Have fun – but never drink and drive.
Keep Your Child Passengers Safe
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- Details of LATCH study
- 2006 Child Safety Seat Ease of Use Ratings
- Preventing Backovers in America’s Driveways
- Comprehensive Child Passenger Safety Information
- Locate a Child Safety Seat Inspection Station by State or Zip
- File a Child-Seat Complaint or Report a Defect Online
- Child Passenger Safety English-Spanish Translation of Terms
- Visit BuckleUpAmerica.org for Additional Information
- Visit BoosterSeat.gov for Additional Information
Best of the Bar: Nashville Business Journal
The Nashville Business Journal" has named Phillip Miller one of the top trial lawyers in Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Being honored as "Best of the Bar" by a newspaper that serves the business community comes as a surprise to Phillip, who says, "For more than 20 years I have represented everyday people in claims against large companies who fail or refuse to accept responsibility for their mistakes. Eventually, businesses get the message. When we file suit for someone, the company involved will be held responsible.
The Bar register of Preeminent Lawyers
Phillip Miller has been recognized as one of the pre-eminent lawyers in the United States by Martindale-Hubbell, an independent company involved in rating lawyers for more than 133 years.
Continuing Legal Education, ATLA
Nashville, TN — Nashville attorney Phillip Miller has been named continuing legal education (CLE) program advisor for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) national convention, which will be held in San Francisco, July 19 - 23. Miller is the first Tennessean to serve in this position at a national ATLA convention. Click here to download press release PDF
Course Advisor, Harvard Law School
Nashville, TN--Nashville attorney Phillip Miller is the course advisor and a member of the faculty for a program on trial advocacy at Harvard Law School, March 22 - March 27. The course, entitled "The Ultimate Trial Advocacy Course: Art of Persuasion," is sponsored by the American Trial Lawyers Association's National College of Advocacy.
As course advisor, Miller is responsible for designing the program, structuring content, and administering the overall course. He is the first Tennessean to serve as course advisor and, as has been the case in the past, is the only attorney from Tennessee to serve on the faculty.
During the six-day program, Miller will present a lecture on the use of story-telling skills as a persuasive tool in telling the trial story to a jury. He will also co-direct mock courtroom trials with six trial consultants who are experts in jury selection, community attitude surveys, establishment of trial themes and other civil and criminal trial consultation fields.
This is the 16th time that Phillip Miller has served as a faculty member for a national professional development program presented by the National College of Advocacy (NCA). He is a former co-chair of NCA's Board of Trustees.