Law blog reports this story of an attorney who saved a life.

"This past weekend, a Lerach Coughlin lawyer, Paul Geller (pictured, left), a name partner at the firm and head of its Boca Raton, Fla., office, saved a pregnant woman and her small schnauzer, Midnight Duke, from two attacking pitbulls"

"We caught up with Geller this morning, who recounted the tale. Geller was driving his 8-year old son home from a soccer practice last Saturday evening when, on a residential street in Delray Beach, he saw two pit bulls attacking a woman walking her dog. He pulled his car over and, after explaining to his son what he was about to do — “don’t try this at home” — he exited the car and ran to the melee. “The woman was on the ground and one of the pit bulls was on top of her,” he recalls. “Blood was everywhere.”

Geller says he was nervous — “the adrenaline was flowing” — but he had something going for him that the rest of us might not — he’s an expert in jujitsu, chronicled in this recent article from Boca Life. (Note to Hollywood writers looking for quirky-lawyer details for your next screenplay: Geller practices jujitsu in a room in Lerach Coughlin’s offices.)

“My instinct was that I should kick the dog that was attacking,” he says. “So that’s what I did.” Geller says he barked a few loud commands at the startled dog, at which point it and its colleague ran back toward the yard from which they’d come. Geller helped the woman and a badly wounded Midnight Duke into his car and saw them to safety. The aftermath — the woman, who suffered a bite to the face, and her baby are fine, as is Midnight Duke, who had to undergo a lengthy surgical procedure. Geller, who calls himself a dog-lover, says he isn’t sure what became of the pit bulls."