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Paralegal Compliance Officer – An Interview with Melissa Andrews

Paralegal Bootcamp

For the past 10 years, she’s been working outside the typical law firm environment and in an area, to be honest, I never thought of as a potential career transition for a personal injury paralegal or any paralegal, really. They asked me to review some contracts. And then it got into contract management. Yes and no.

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What is a Litigation Paralegal?

Paralegal Bootcamp

The paralegal is the team member who is searching the case database for potential evidence (emails, text messages, memos, contracts, etc.) All of the work that a litigation paralegal does is usually tied to a deadline set by the court rules or the judge. Prepare for depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. What does that mean?

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Supreme Court limits homeowners’ ability to sue their lenders in tort

At the Lectern

” The court settles a conflict in Court of Appeal case law and notes a similar divide in federal district court rulings. ” The court doesn’t consider whether a plaintiff might succeed in suing for negligent misrepresentation or promissory estoppel.

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China Adopts Restrictive Theory of Foreign State Immunity

Conflict of Laws

To determine whether an act is commercial, “a PRC court shall undertake an overall consideration of the act’s nature and purpose.” Convention, the FSIL deals separately with employment contracts (Article 8) and intellectual property cases (Article 11). It is unclear if Chinese courts applying the FSIL will reach the same conclusion.