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TechReport 2022: Practice Management

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The onset of COVID in March of 2020 forced many attorneys to both adopt and become adept with these technologies. Conversely, respondents from firms of 100 or more attorneys report that their primary computers for work are laptops (88%), followed by solo attorneys (58%), firms of 10-49 attorneys (43%) and firms of 2-9 attorneys (38%).

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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TechReport 2021: Life & Practice

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Since that time, the COVID-19 pandemic has entered our lives, and the 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report “Life and Practice” survey results indicate that there are still a fair number of attorneys who are struggling to achieve an appropriate “work-life” balance. 31% at firms of 2-9 attorneys. 20 at firms of 10-49 attorneys.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

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Texas Federal Court Ordered Jurisdictional Discovery in Exxon Case Against Massachusetts Attorney General, Citing Concern That State’s Investigation Was Undertaken in Bad Faith. New York Court Ordered Exxon and Its Accountant to Comply with Attorney General’s Subpoena. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court said the laws’ provision for criminal or tort liability for advising, encouraging, or soliciting persons participating in a riot to acts of force or violence was overbroad and vague. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim.

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