Question

You are the retail manager of Ozark hardware and are presented with the following facts:

Marty Birdman buys an outdoor Adirondack chair from your store, Ozark Hardware. When Marty sits in the chair it crashes to the ground causing him injury. When Marty surveys the damaged chair he notices there is a missing screw that should hold the chair together. Marty also notices a sticker that says “distributed by Wyatt Industries” and a stamp that reads “manufactured by Snell.”

Discuss Marty’s legal recourse.

Answer 1

Marty is a creative, solutions-oriented problem solver, known for his relentless pursuit of positive outcomes for his clients.Martin Glass focuses his practice on elder law, trusts, estate planning, planned giving, long-term care, special needs planning, and asset preservation

Held in the highest regard by his students, faculty colleagues and those in the wider legal industry, Marty has been honored with numerous teaching awards, as well as a Festschrift, a conference honoring his scholarly accomplishments in 2012, and in 2016, a conference to commemorate the 45th anniversary of his first scholarly article, written as a third-year law student, which has been widely recognized as the source of the modern doctrine of First Amendment protection of commercial speech.

While he has spent nearly all of his professional life as a professor at Northwestern University Law School, Marty has also held visiting professorships at the University of Michigan Law School, Cornell University Law School and Stanford Law School.

Marty represents providers as well as enterprises and technology firms that are large users of communications-related services. His clients include broadband providers and network operators, mobile satellite broadband and wireless providers, spectrum owners, video programmers, consumer electronics and technology firms. He also advises major electric utilities on telecom-related and telemarketing matters.

Marty provides counsel to clients throughout the sector on thorny compliance-related matters. He has handled and resolved numerous investigations before the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, advises consumer electronics clients on complex FCC equipment authorization matters, and advises companies on Telephone Consumer Protection Act compliance. He handles spectrum transactions, and assists providers on network deployment matters. He also represents both video programmers and distributors on regulatory and commercial matters. He has been a key advisor to companies and investors on the unique sector-related issues surrounding their M&A, financing and restructuring activities.

Marty is a Board member of ARCH Development Corp., a non-profit focused on the economic regeneration of DC’s Historic Anacostia community. He is also a member of the University of Rochester’s DC Regional Leadership Cabinet, the Simon Business School’s Alumni Advisory Council, and was Co-Chair of Rochester’s DC Regional Capital Campaign.

His experience includes drafting wills and trusts from the straightforward to the complex, as well as the complicated process of preparing and steering Medicaid applications through the appropriate government and social service agencies. Marty also advises clients on business succession and tax planning issues.

Marty began his professional career as a software engineer after completing his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. After 15 years, while working full-time as an engineer, Marty attended law school. He began his legal career as a patent attorney, but quickly moved to elder law and estate planning, where he has concentrated his practice ever since. Prior to joining Campolo Middleton, Marty was associated with a prominent elder law and estate planning firm.

Held in the highest regard by his students, faculty colleagues and those in the wider legal industry, Marty has been honored with numerous teaching awards, as well as a Festschrift, a conference honoring his scholarly accomplishments in 2012, and in 2016, a conference to commemorate the 45th anniversary of his first scholarly article, written as a third-year law student, which has been widely recognized as the source of the modern doctrine of First Amendment protection of commercial speech