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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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Do Lawyers Make Simple Things Difficult?

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Many lawyers come out of law school not knowing the practice of law but only the theory, and that theoretical underpinning can wreak havoc for some. Even looking at uneven pavement or a pothole gets some lawyers thinking of the potentially liable parties and the causes of action that could be asserted. Are we windbags?

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DISCO Licenses vLex Library In Move To Combine Legal Analysis with Factual Analysis within Its Platform

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The company said it will incorporate the legal research data into its core platform to create a marriage of factual development and legal analysis, allowing litigators to analyze fact patterns against the relevant law. “We Earlier this year, vLex acquired Fastcase and its collection of U.S. legal research materials.

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8 Steps to Be the Rockstar Personal Injury Paralegal

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Paralegals are essential to a personal injury law firm, whether for a solo practitioner or a large firm with many lawyers. Among other important paralegal skills, knowing the medicine allows the lawyers more time to practice law and bring in more clients. It can also save a lawyer time, which makes you invaluable to the lawyer.

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Legal Tech Startup Ai.law Can Now Draft the Complaint for Your Lawsuit

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Ai.law , a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. In addition to the names of the parties and the jurisdiction, Ai.law asks you to provide: Causes of action. (If Any issues likely to be contentious.

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

Day on Torts

The trial court dismissed the action, finding that the settlement of the personal injury case “very clearly intended to foreclose upon any future wrongful death funds related to the mesothelioma litigation,” and the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal. Decedent himself ultimately accepted a settlement in lieu of further litigation.

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Ways to Determine How Much Your Personal Injury Case is Worth

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But because personal injury law encompasses so many situations and causes of action, there is no set number. If you are considering one of these claims, you are probably wondering how much compensation you could recover.