Declarations

Wildfire Lessons

“I’ll be very honest about it – we haven’t come up with anything different we could do.”

—Fire Chief Garry Alderman, who heads the fire and rescue agency for wildfire-prone Horry County, South Carolina. He won’t alter his agency’s practices even though his crews failed to extinguish a small blaze that mushroomed into the worst wildfire in state history. The fire destroyed 76 homes and damaged nearly 100 near Myrtle Beach in April.

Lawsuit Hotline

“I’m getting probably twice as many phone calls. Of course, not all of them have a case. A lot of time is spent going through cases, but I get clients. Old-school lawyers have to keep up with technology.”

—Martin Saenz, a Miami labor lawyer who has been advertising on www.whocanisue.com for a little more than a month. Boca Raton-based whocanisue.com has scores of billboards and bus-shelter signs showing a lawyer slipping on a banana peel. The service matches Web site visitors with lawyers via a quick-and-easy form.

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