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8 Steps to Be the Rockstar Personal Injury Paralegal

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The backbone of all good personal injury law firms is its paralegals. Paralegals are essential to a personal injury law firm, whether for a solo practitioner or a large firm with many lawyers. A valuable personal injury paralegal is a paralegal who knows not only the law but also the medicine.

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Cause of Action? Personal Injury 101

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Each state has their own laws about how long from the date of the accident you have to file your personal injury suit.

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Ways to Determine How Much Your Personal Injury Case is Worth

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Personal injury lawsuits are intended to compensate those who are injured in accidents through no fault of their own. But because personal injury law encompasses so many situations and causes of action, there is no set number.

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Decedent’s personal injury settlement did not become wrongful death proceeds after his death.

Day on Torts

Before his death, decedent filed suit for personal injury and loss of consortium in West Virginia. The Court explained: Here, Decedent brought suit in West Virginia for personal injury and loss of consortium. M2021-00081-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citation omitted). Dismissal was therefore affirmed.

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US and UK Rohingya refugees sue Facebook alleging dissemination of ‘hateful and dangerous misinformation’

JURIST

.” The suit was filed by Chicago-based Edelson PC and seeks to apply Myanmar law to the plaintiffs’ claim in an attempt to circumvent § 230 of the Communications Decency Act —a US law that protects tech companies from content posted by users. ” Plaintiffs demand a jury trial.

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Statute of limitations extended to two years where defendant was given traffic citation after car accident.

Day on Torts

Where plaintiff’s personal injury claim was based on a Tennessee car accident for which defendant was given a traffic citation for failure to exercise due care under Tenn. 55-8-136, which is a Class C misdemeanor, the statute of limitations for plaintiff’s action was extended to two years pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Westlaw Precision: Next-Generation Legal Research With a Human Touch

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“Editorial excellence has long been at the heart of Westlaw,“ said Leann Blanchfield, head of Primary Law, Editorial, Thomson Reuters. “To enable more precision in search, we added more than 250 new attorney editors to mark up and classify case law in more useful ways for our customers.” KeyCite Cited With.