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Personal Injury Law Firm Claims to be First to Set Up Office in the Metaverse

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.” Well, if companies will now be flocking to the metaverse, it only makes sense that a personal injury firm should get there ahead of them, ready to pursue justice for that first avatar to slip and fall on a virtual banana peel. What I do not know is whether any of these predecessors in the metaverse were personal injury firms.

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Mentoring New Legal Assistants

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My head bobbed up and down as I watched our new legal assistant bounce like a Jack Russell Terrier at my door holding a post-it-note above her head. In my own defense, the last 25 years of my career has been dedicated to one attorney as a contracted tort litigation paralegal. The same can hold true with new legal assistants.

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Personal Injury Law Firm Claims to be First to Set Up Office in the Metaverse

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.” Well, if companies will now be flocking to the metaverse, it only makes sense that a personal injury firm should get there ahead of them, ready to pursue justice for that first avatar to slip and fall on a virtual banana peel. What I do not know is whether any of these predecessors in the metaverse were personal injury firms.

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My 40 Most-Read Blog Posts This Year Tell A Story Of A Legal Industry Consumed With Generative AI

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Look over this list of my blog posts that were most popular this year, and there is no doubt about the topic that most captivated the legal industry. Two popular stories were about GPT taking the bar exam: one in March when GPT passed the bar exam, and the second in November when it passed the legal ethics exam. The Question Is, Why?

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Paralegal Tips for Negotiating Client Bills and Liens

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As a personal injury paralegal , few things ache my heart more than seeing someone injured in a motor vehicle crash with minimal or no personal injury protection (“PIP”) benefits. From $2,500 in coverage to $100,000 in coverage, these figures are equally important in your client’s personal injury case.

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Legal Issues Raised By Infecting Someone with COVID-19

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Can you be responsible for someone contracting the coronavirus from you? This article will explore the civil and criminal law issues raised by the coronavirus pandemic and is from the office of noted personal injury and RSD lawyers Schwarz & Schwarz. If you get COVID-19, can you sue someone who infected you?

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Paralegal Compliance Officer – An Interview with Melissa Andrews

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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.

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