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Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. So Why Aren’t the Advocates of Each More Closely Aligned?

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On Friday I attended Transform: Justice , a program by Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab held to commemorate the full release of the Caselaw Access Project’s case law collection from all commercial restrictions , as well as to consider the future of free and open access to law. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.

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A Path from Paralegal to Lawyer

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Now I’m not the right person to answer that question because the only time that I contemplated going to law school was when I was in a job that I didn’t like. I started the process, then went to work for a law firm and a team of lawyers that had me sitting second chair at trials, and they paid me very well.

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Ethical Considerations for Flat Fee Billing

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see “classic retainer” vs. “advance payment retainer” vs. “security retainer” in Illinois ), but in general, a lawyer is required to deposit flat fees and expenses paid into a client trust account in advance for representation. Some states allow a retainer that is earned upon payment (e.g., See Model Rule 1.15.

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Rick DeMedeiros: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field

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Rick DeMedeiros , the Founder of DeMedeiros Injury Law , is a workers’ compensation lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, a certified mediator, and a YouTuber who recently started his own channel called, The Work Comp Guy. Is success in the law dependent on going to a top-tier school? – Chere Estrin. Absolutely not.

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Norman Harris: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field

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My siblings and I were born and raised in rural Georgia in a small town named Manchester. I dreamed big in a small place and challenged myself to set my mind to become a lawyer, even though there were no other lawyers in my family and no African American lawyers in the small town of Manchester, Georgia.

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Guest Post by Alan Cox: The Damages Testimony in VLSI Technologies v. Intel

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In its direct testimony on damages, VLSI addressed several additional critiques that had been raised by Intel in pretrial filings, reports or deposition testimony. As a basis for this point, he cited the Georgia-Pacific factors that call for consideration of the extent to which the infringer has made profitable use of the invention.