JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In re Grand Jury asks the court to consider whether attorney-client privilege shields communications from grand jury subpoenas. Specifically, the court will determine whether attorney-client privilege covers communications involving both legal and non-legal advice when the communication was created for the purpose of obtaining legal advice.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In my own defense, the last 25 years of my career has been dedicated to one attorney as a contracted tort litigation paralegal. I use a pre-litigation checklist for new legal assistants in our personal injury practice. Task them with teaching another new hire or have them take the lead in providing status to the attorney.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 21, 2023

On July 21, 2023, the Sabin Center launched its latest report, Modelling Climate Litigation Risk for (Re)Insurers. However, alongside physical risks, companies face a rising tide of climate change-related litigation. The economic impact of climate litigation can be enormous.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch already has the makings of a blockbuster tort action. ” The question is not whether but when the first torts lawsuit will be filed. .” What is clear is that there is an abundance of evidence to support a tort action even at this early stage.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

25, 2022), plaintiff filed multiple tort claims against multiple defendants, including libel claims against certain defendants based on their social media statements related to the death of a dog who died while in the care of plaintiff’s dog training business. In Laferney v. Livesay , No. E2021-00812-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 14199150 (Tenn.

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The Cloud Court Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Gibson, our testimony intelligence solution , is an intuitive complement to the litigation process. Mutual clients will enjoy deeper insights into witness testimony, greater continuity throughout the litigation process, and cost savings in large scale matters. Press release

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

About 15 percent of funds will go toward attorneys’ fees. For the tribes to receive the full amount from the companies, 95 percent of the litigating tribes must agree to settle, as well as at least 14 of the 17 non-litigating tribes of more than 5,000 members for the distributors’ deal.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

She’s a litigation paralegal at Heygood, Orr & Pearson (no relation to me). She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. And so I met with this attorney who then asked me to come in and interview to fill that position to be the receptionist and do clerical work.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 12, 2021

Where plaintiff alleged that defendant attorney fraudulently charged a higher hourly rate than what was agreed upon, the trial court should have engaged in a three-factor analysis to determine whether the written fee agreement could be used to defeat the fraud claim. In Vazeen v. M2019-01395-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citation omitted).

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last June, the seven-year-old litigation analytics company Gavelytics shut down, seemingly overnight, with founder and CEO Rick Merrill announcing the news by an email on June 29 that he “recently made the difficult decision to close Gavelytics effective June 30,” as I reported at the time. .

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LawSites

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The new feature, LeadsAI , generates a summary of all the information provided in a lead intake form, including lead details, message correspondence, and notes, Filevine says, enabling attorneys to get a quick and accurate summarization of the details important to the firm. LeadsAI will be a paid feature add-on for Lead Docket customers.

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.

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LawSites

APRIL 27, 2022

Founded in 2014 with an original focus on litigation and personal injury law, the company has been steadily expanding its platform into other areas of law practice — including larger firms, insurance defense, corporate legal, and government — and it plans to use this funding to further fuel that expansion.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. Again, the court agreed.

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Paralegal Mentor

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

They needed legal representation just to fight for their reputations so they turned to Atlanta Attorney L. Lin Wood known as an expert in First Amendment litigation and management of the media in high-profile cases. He was referred to by newscaster Dan Rather as “the attorney for the damned.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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LegalReader

JULY 29, 2022

Texas is known as a “tort state.” This means that in order to receive a settlement, you must prove that someone else was to blame.

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LawSites

JULY 7, 2022

I am a big fan of litigation analytics, even once suggesting that it could be malpractice for a litigator not to use the technology. Rabinowitz is a lawyer who practiced as an associate in Sidley LLP’s Supreme Court & Appellate and Mass Tort Litigation groups. Later, he served as a trial attorney for the U.S.

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Of course, this is probably why states around the country have enacted things like Tort Claims Acts which are written in favor of government entities and whose sole purpose is to limit liability and protect government employees and the departments they work for. Sounds like a racket so you gotta stay on your toes.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Angela Kogan, the owner of Perfection Plastic Surgery & MedSpa, will now have to go to trial to defend the use of the images on social media in an interesting case on the “right to publicity” in torts. Florida codified the common law tort for misappropriation of name or likeness.

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Blackstone Career Institute

JANUARY 5, 2024

Attorneys need trained LNCs to consult on nursing malpractice and other healthcare-related legal cases. Since an attorney’s knowledge is in the law, an LNC is needed to provide clinical expertise on matters related to medical and nursing care. An LNC’s primary goal is to ensure the best outcome for patients.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Thompson’s defense attorney orally moved to dismiss the charges for facial insufficiency; the court ordered submission of a written motion. Thompson bolsters his argument through the state of the law for the analogous tort of malicious prosecution as of 1871, when Congress enacted Section 1983. Thompson’s arguments. Relying on the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Murray Energy Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Share Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal, which will reach the Supreme Court for oral argument on Monday , is just one of many examples of recent unorthodox civil procedure maneuvers in public harms litigation. But can bankruptcy court solve a public health crisis? As William Harrington, the U.S.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The brief highlighted why the use of bankruptcy to address litigation claims is a valid bankruptcy purpose that has been historically recognized by courts across the country.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 30, 2024

Midori NARAZAKI, Climate Change Litigation and Private International Law: Review of the Hague District Court’s Judgment against Royal Dutch Shell Abstract: This paper analyzes a landmark decision by the District Court of The Hague on May 26, 2021, ordering Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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LawTechnologyToday

MAY 6, 2021

All crises saw a jump in litigation, a reduction in insurance companies willing to shoulder the risks, and soaring premiums (in the early 2000s, premiums nearly doubled). Contingency fees paid to attorneys mean that there is no longer a paywall to deter injured patients from pursuing a lawsuit against their health care providers.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 26, 2023

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Background information about the general climate context and litigation in Japan is available in a previous blog post.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Farm Bureau and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein ask the court to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. King sued them under the Federal Tort Claims Act and under Bivens v. Last among the First (Amendment) cases is Blankenship v. du Pont de Nemours & Co. ” (relisted after the Sept.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 19, 2021

In litigation (and life), being organized often leads to better outcomes. The path to becoming organized, specifically in litigation, can present significant challenges. When it comes to litigation needs, a case management system will enhance client service when properly used. Capturing the Data.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2022

The defamation laws are far more advantageous for defendants in the UK and most plaintiffs try to litigate such claims in the U.S. The one statement in Heard’s countersuit that was found to be defamation was not made by Depp but his attorney Adam Waldman. There are a number of novel elements to this defamation case.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hdeel Abdelhady , who teaches part-time in the areas of international trade and Islamic law, sued the university for a variety of torts, including allegations that counsel for the university made overtures to an administrative judge about securing a federal judgeship. The court rejected that accommodation: Abdelhady now proceeds pro se.

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LawSites

AUGUST 15, 2022

As an example, Nichols told me about a mass tort litigation client who was facing multiple claims being filed by a handful of plaintiffs’ firms, with 75-80 complaints being filed a week and each some 200 pages long. Reviewing all those complaints was consuming extensive attorney time. for advanced client data solutions?at

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Others have set out elaborate justifications for moving toward imposing statutory qualifications on prosecutorial immunity in tort litigation for Brady violations. After all, as UCLA law professor Joanna Schwartz has pointed out in the context of policing, litigation allows for learning , if anyone is inclined to pay attention.).

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MyCase

AUGUST 22, 2022

Typically, a boutique firm is made up of a few staff members, no more than twenty highly experienced attorneys, and a smaller, selective client base. . Litigation : This may include a range of both civil and criminal litigation cases, such as personal injury tort claims, divorce and family law cases, contract disputes, and so on. .

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Kagan and Kavanaugh shifted to when administrative remedies preclude private judicial enforcement, with Kagan suggesting a presumption in favor of Section 1983 absent “incompatibility,” a conflict or tension between administrative remedies and private litigation. attorney general, and Section 1983.

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