Law 360

JANUARY 5, 2024

Delaware's Court of Chancery on Friday stayed a North Carolina public water authority's suit to void asset transfers in what the authority termed a toxic pollution liability "shell game" by DuPont affiliates and successors, after defense attorneys acknowledged omissions in an opposition brief.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Following a $50 million gift to Drexel University’s law school in 2014, Philadelphia trial lawyer Thomas R. Kline has committed to give the same amount…

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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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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

He is now bringing a claim against the UK Foreign Office, the Home Office and the Attorney General, to hold them vicariously liable for the actions of British intelligence services. The preliminary issue for the courts in this case was which law applied to the torts allegedly committed while Zubaydah was being held in these six countries.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For any plaintiff who's been injured or any young attorney just starting out in the field of tort law, it can be daunting to calculate…

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Hallucinations are incorrect outputs that could lead to tort liabilities, consumer harm or regulatory breaches. However, in the context of lawyers using artificial intelligence , AI poses problems such as “hallucinations,” unpredictability, and response divergence.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Share In Re Grand Jury asks how courts should assess attorney-client privilege when a client seeks partly legal and partly nonlegal advice from a lawyer and the two parts cannot be disentangled. It may have reminded her of her first-year torts class. Monday’s oral argument exposed weaknesses and strengths in each side’s position.

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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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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Provided the employer prevailed in a lawsuit, they could have sought attorney’s fees, compensatory damages, and exemplary damages of $5,000 for each day a defendant acted in violation of the statute. Third, the state contended that the case was incorrectly decided.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Now, that works when the audience is other attorneys, who eat that stuff up. But, when trying to craft content for legal consumers, attorneys should take a different approach. Your potential clients have no idea what a tort is, won’t appreciate a turn of phrase originating with Cicero and prefer fewer syllables.

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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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Law 360

JANUARY 13, 2023

Catch up this week with coverage on why Private Attorneys General Act suits and notices are decreasing in California, what could happen if the U.S. Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends.

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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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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2022

Decedent’s brother Don had a springing power of attorney (POA) for decedent. One of the two plaintiff daughters also testified at trial that she got a phone call from decedent on October 5, 2009, in which decedent stated that he had taken her and Don “off” his power of attorney. Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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Day on Torts

MAY 12, 2023

Where the trial court took judicial notice of items from the court case underlying a tort action for invasion of privacy, abuse of process, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, it did not convert the motion to dismiss to a motion for summary judgment and dismissal of the claims based on the statute of limitations was affirmed.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In re Grand Jury is a case involving grand jury subpoenas and attorney-client privilege. The court is asked to consider whether an unnamed law firm specializing in international tax was allowed to withhold documents in a grand jury proceeding on the basis of attorney-client privilege. In Santos-Zacaria v. In Glacier Northwest v.

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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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Day on Torts

MAY 13, 2022

April 26, 2022), plaintiff was represented by defendant attorney in an underlying case in which plaintiff asserted several claims, including malicious prosecution. Plaintiff’s chief complaint is that Defendant failed to obtain his full case file from Plaintiff’s former attorney. Rogers , No.

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Law 360

AUGUST 31, 2021

Proposed legislation prohibiting nonconsensual third-party releases in Chapter 11 plans would likely eliminate the use of bankruptcy restructurings as vehicles for large tort settlements, among other impacts on case administration and exculpation rights, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

19, 2022), plaintiff county filed this legal malpractice suit against defendant attorney who had represented the county in an underlying action filed by a former county employee. Note: Chapter 64, Section 5 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. In Coffee County v.

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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. Task them with teaching another new hire or have them take the lead in providing status to the attorney. In that moment it occurred to me I had gravely miscalculated my training and mentoring methods.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

A litigation paralegal is someone who works under the supervision of an attorney who practices in criminal or civil litigation. A litigation paralegal assists the attorney with many case management duties, from the complaint through the trial and the appeal. WHAT IS A LITIGATION PARALEGAL? Draft pleadings and discovery.

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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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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Where plaintiff filed a notice of voluntary dismissal in his defamation case before defendants filed their petition to dismiss under the TPPA, the trial court erred by granting defendants’ petition for dismissal and awarding them attorneys’ fees and sanctions after plaintiff’s nonsuit. In Adamson v. Grove , No.

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LawSites

APRIL 27, 2022

Before starting Filevine, Anderson was a founding partner at a western-states law firm focused on personal injury, mass torts and employment class-actions. In his work as an attorney, Anderson says, he was constantly bombarded with urgent tasks and problems.

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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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Paralegal Mentor

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

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

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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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Day on Torts

MARCH 22, 2022

Plaintiff’s husband signed the indemnity agreement without reading it or having an attorney review it. Note: Chapter 81, Section 4 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. The unrefuted testimony is that [husband] simply did not read the [indemnity agreement].

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 26, 2023

In the most high-profile case of the week, the Court addressed the scope of the attorney-client privilege when an attorney provides both legal and non-legal advice. The Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

About 15 percent of funds will go toward attorneys’ fees. The nation’s three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle opioid claims for up to $665 million with Native American tribes who have claimed they were harmed by decades of exposure to highly addictive painkillers, reports the Washington Post. .

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Day on Torts

MAY 31, 2022

Before filing suit, plaintiff consulted with a friend who was an attorney in Louisiana. While plaintiff asserted that he relied on advice from an out-of-state attorney and was acting pro se when the notices were sent, the Court ruled that this did not constitute extraordinary cause. Plaintiff thereafter filed this HCLA suit.

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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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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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Day on Torts

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, the Court found that the “Commission erred by determining attorney oversight/mistake established good cause to excuse the defective certificate of good faith.” Note: Chapter 46, Section 2 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 12, 2023

The paper recognized attorneys in 15 cases. The Daily Journal today named the recipients of its annual California Lawyer of the Year award. Three of the cases resulted in Supreme Court opinions. One of the three CLAY award Supreme Court decisions is Guardianship of Saul H. 2022) 13 Cal.5th ” In Saul H. ,

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