Lawyer sanctioned for being ‘rude, demeaning and obnoxious’ in depositions
ABA Journal
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
A federal judge has sanctioned a personal injury lawyer nearly $20,000 for his conduct during four depositions last year. 27 opinion ,…
Judge sanctions lawyer for ‘obnoxious’ and ‘appalling’ deposition conduct
ABA Journal
MAY 10, 2023
A personal injury lawyer will be sanctioned for his deposition conduct after calling the opposing counsel “corporate shills” who “live in an alternate reality," a…
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Secrets of a Personal Injury Lawyer
LegalReader
MARCH 11, 2021
The headline from the website or billboard brought you in: “Over $100 Million Recovered” and you thought ‘I could be 1 of that $100 Million’. Statistically that’s far from reality.
Types Of Small Claims Cases To Know Before Hiring An LDA Over Attorney
LDA PRO
APRIL 7, 2023
In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at some of the most common types of small claims cases, including property damage or personal injury from a car accident, landlord/tenant security deposits, disputes with contractors, collection of money owed, damage to your property by a neighbor, and homeowner association disputes.
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What is a Litigation Paralegal?
Paralegal Bootcamp
JANUARY 4, 2024
Prepare for depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. Prepare for depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. that the attorney might want to use during these depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. Free Guide for Personal Injury Paralegals Are you ready to be a rockstar personal injury paralegal?!
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The Future of Litigation Finance for Plaintiff’s Attorneys
Sterno
MAY 2, 2022
You work to represent plaintiffs in mass tort, personal injury, and employment lawsuits, but defendants can have what feels like an endless coffer of resources to shut down your client’s case. Pretrial discovery activities, like depositions, are weighed against the case-value benefit.
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Paralegal Compliance Officer – An Interview with Melissa Andrews
Paralegal Bootcamp
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
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 were like, “Hey, as a paralegal, you’ve done some deposition prep.
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10 Tips for Summarizing Medical Records
Paralegal Bootcamp
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Personal Injury Paralegal. Are you a personal injury paralegal struggling to keep up with all of those active case files? Our Personal Injury Paralegal Boot Camp gives you all of the tools to manage your personal injury cases from case intake through the demand letter, and everything in between.
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Examples of Automated Legal Workflows for Law Firm Efficiency
CARET Legal
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Personal Injury Firms: Statute Reminders In personal injury firms , lawyers frequently have to send out statute of limitation reminders, which acts as the anchor date for these workflows. Draft letters: Automatically draft and send notices serving depositions after letters of examination go out.
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Proactive Litigation Paralegal Tip
Paralegal Bootcamp
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Instead of waiting for the attorney to ask you to prepare for an upcoming deposition or a summary judgment filing, you could start working on those projects well in advance of being asked. For example, after reviewing the new pleadings filed each day, you know that there is a deposition of one of the parties coming up next month.
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What It Looks Like to be a Proactive Paralegal
Paralegal Bootcamp
JANUARY 20, 2023
I knew there was a deposition next month that I could start preparing for this month. And one important one that I missed last week was a deposition notice.” You get copies of everything coming in, and you see on your attorney’s calendar that there’s a deposition later this month of a key witness in the case.
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Negligence summary judgment affirmed where plaintiff had no evidence of breach of duty.
Day on Torts
JANUARY 3, 2022
Plaintiff was nailing one board while the other end was being held at a lower diagonal by defendant, when after placing a few nails in the board, plaintiff hit the board again with his hammer and the board bounced back and knocked him off his ladder, causing serious injuries. Continue reading.
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Discretionary costs award to defendants affirmed.
Day on Torts
AUGUST 13, 2021
July 26, 2021), plaintiff filed a personal injury action against defendants, and the jury returned a verdict for defendants. Likewise, plaintiff also waived his argument that “no court reporter fees from his March 29, 2018 deposition should be awarded because the deposition took over five hours and was not in good faith.”
Websites Paralegals Should Bookmark (Or At Least Know About)
Paralegal Bootcamp
MAY 12, 2022
You can find Medical Boards here–and if you schedule the deposition of a doctor, take a quick look and see if any disciplinary information is available. Yesterday at a deposition, it was said that someone from the news media was on-scene, but the witness did not know who. Your Public Library.
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Lessons from Management: Key Insights I Wish I Knew as a Paralegal
Paralegal Bootcamp
JUNE 15, 2023
For example, if you’re getting a project assistant to put together a set of deposition prep notebooks for 10 upcoming depositions, you don’t want them to do all 10 notebooks and bring them to you next week only to find out that they’re not correct. They’re not what you were expecting. Why might they do that?
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Guide to Enhancing Law Firm Productivity
LawTechnologyToday
AUGUST 1, 2023
Highly skilled and semi-qualified law professionals offer legal outsourcing services at a fraction of the cost a firm would otherwise incur in its premises.
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Legalweek News Roundup Part 2: CASEpeer, Evisort, Everlaw, Hanzo, LawPay, LexCheck, LinkSquares, LegalEase, Logikcull, Milestones, MyCase
LawSites
MARCH 23, 2023
Everlaw Announces Visual Intelligence and Automation Updates The ediscovery and litigation company Everlaw unveiled three new features at Legalweek: Communication Visualizer, Video Depositions and Cloud Connectors for Zoom.
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Handling Client Funds
CosmoLex
JANUARY 24, 2024
Fee Advances/Retainers Accounting : This involves oversight of client funds held in reserve to cover legal fees and expenses, including escrow funds such as personal injury settlements and their disbursements. Each area of accounting has its complexities and nuances.
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Waste Not, Want Not: Airline Dumps Human Waste on Englishman Sunning Himself in his Backyard
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 25, 2021
In both the United Kingdom and the United States, a heightened duty applied for personal injuries. 468 (1852): “When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. Kneeland , Hob.
Is it Worth it to Become a Litigation Paralegal?
Paralegal Bootcamp
JULY 24, 2023
As a litigation paralegal, you will spend a majority of your typical workday writing one thing or another, such as: Pleadings Motions Briefs Affidavits Discovery requests Discovery responses Subpoenas Witness statements Deposition summaries Medical records summaries Case summaries Legal research memos The list goes on and on and on.
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Norman Harris: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field
The Estrin Report
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
My primary areas of focus are Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, and Music Entertainment Contract Law. I would also like to further develop as a Civil Rights Attorney and become a leading Civil Rights and Personal Injury attorney in the Country. I have a small community-based firm. You are a successful attorney.
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Transitioning to Litigation from Another Practice Area
Paralegal Bootcamp
JUNE 13, 2022
For example, within litigation – you might be a paralegal working in construction litigation, and what you would be doing would be completely different than if you are a paralegal working in personal injury litigation. Just a certificate of completion.
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What You Don’t Know About the Paralegal Job Market
The Estrin Report
JUNE 26, 2023
However, while big law firms are laying off due to overstaffing from the pandemic, the most active firms hiring today are in the mid-size, boutique and personal injury firms. Don’t be fooled into thinking AI is not going to affect your career! What is going to happen is job shifting. The paralegal position will begin to look different.
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Are You Still Waiting for That On-the-Job Training?
Paralegal Bootcamp
MARCH 24, 2023
They have deadlines they are not going to risk missing just because the two of you set a time to meet so she could show you how to put together a deposition summary – and now she doesn’t have the time. Because for every one of them, there is a paralegal down the hall who WANTS you to succeed, but they have their own job to do.
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Are You Still Waiting for That On-the-Job Training?
Paralegal Bootcamp
MARCH 24, 2023
They have deadlines they are not going to risk missing just because the two of you set a time to meet so she could show you how to put together a deposition summary – and now she doesn’t have the time. Because for every one of them, there is a paralegal down the hall who WANTS you to succeed, but they have their own job to do.
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Are You Still Waiting for That On-the-Job Training?
Paralegal Bootcamp
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
They have deadlines they are not going to risk missing just because the two of you set a time to meet so she could show you how to put together a deposition summary – and now she doesn’t have the time. Because for every one of them, there is a paralegal down the hall who WANTS you to succeed, but they have their own job to do.
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Back to Basics: Mastering Trust Accounting for Lawyers
CosmoLex
JANUARY 10, 2024
Only certain types of funds can be placed into a trust account: Settlement funds, such as those obtained through a personal injury case Unearned income paid to the lawyer or their firm before services have been rendered (e.g.,
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Five Legal Technology Trends of Note From the TechnoLawyer Top Products Awards of 2021
Attorney at Work
JANUARY 11, 2022
It’s challenging to obtain a damaging admission during a deposition, but social media feeds and chat threads contain more admissions than a Taylor Swift confessional. With billions documenting their life from the banal to the audacious, these services have become a treasure trove for discovery.
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Software Update 03112012
LexBlog
MARCH 11, 2012
The Personal Injury Assistant Enhancements. No restriction on Deposition entries. We have now made the number of depositions you are allowed to enter unlimited. Referral field issue resolved. An issue was identified and has been resolved involving the Referral field on the case details form.
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Software Update 03112012
LexBlog
MARCH 11, 2012
The Personal Injury Assistant Enhancements. No restriction on Deposition entries. We have now made the number of depositions you are allowed to enter unlimited. Referral field issue resolved. An issue was identified and has been resolved involving the Referral field on the case details form.
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7 Habits of the Indispensable Paralegal
Paralegal Bootcamp
APRIL 13, 2023
By doing that, I knew there was a deposition next month that I could start preparing for this month. A personal injury paralegal has a case checklist , a medical records tracking sheet, and more. Let’s say you’re a personal injury paralegal who is only working in the pre-litigation phase of your files. Checklists.
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Use This 3-Step Plan for Litigation Paralegals to Accelerate Your Career in 2024
Paralegal Bootcamp
JANUARY 10, 2024
Even if you’re in a job right now, maybe you’re in personal injury, or family law that doesn’t do eDiscovery, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t learn it. What I want is for you to have career security. This means gaining skills that will advance your paralegal career, not just your job.
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Advance Your Litigation Paralegal Career
Paralegal Bootcamp
MAY 6, 2021
As a litigation paralegal or a personal injury paralegal , have you ever been frustrated with incomplete, inaccurate, and flawed investigations that you outsource to investigative firms? Processing. Analysis is an in-depth examination of the meaning and essential features of available information. Learn More About Certification.
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Greg Colburn: How to Be a Top Lawyer in Your Niche
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 10, 2022
This week, we feature personal injury lawyer Greg Colburn, who says success requires both grit and empathy. Seattle personal injury attorney Greg Colburn was a promising baseball player at the University of Washington. But then he suffered a debilitating injury. But then he suffered a debilitating injury. “I
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Time to Vote! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023
LawSites
JANUARY 23, 2023
Users host meetings, mediations, and depositions that mimics real-life litigation scenarios and provides a level of security befitting legal proceedings. CaseUp Elevator Pitch: CaseUp provides a faster and easier way to share exhibits in remote depositions. We started with depositions. What makes you unique or innovative?
This week’s relists: preemption of consumer protection laws, bankruptcy claims, COVID mandates and. Chevron deference again?
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 11, 2023
To ensure timely payment of property taxes and insurance premiums, many mortgage lenders require borrowers to deposit money into escrow accounts, which often carry a significant positive balance. But the plan treats holders of insured and uninsured asbestos personal-injury claims differently.
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Trying Out My Trial Skills In A New Virtual Reality Courtroom
LawSites
MAY 25, 2021
Smith , a Boise, Idaho, personal injury lawyer. The company says this will be useful for lawyers to practice questioning witnesses or preparing witnesses for depositions and trials. The company was founded by William L. The next development phase will enable multi-player use.
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Project Management Tools for Attorneys
Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
CASEpeer is practice management tailored for the unique concerns of personal injury attorneys. They can also monitor accepted settlements, tracking any pending payments, recording any deposited checks, and projecting any future income streams. Related: “Project Management Demystified” by Larry Port.
Paralegal Webinar Replay
Paralegal Bootcamp
MARCH 25, 2021
So I knew there was a deposition next month that I could start preparing for this month. Personal Injury Boot Camp. He wrote this on my annual performance review: “Ann knows what I need before I even know that I need it.”. How did I become a mind-reader? I read every single thing that came in on his litigation cases. You own it.
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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. However, at his deposition, the defendant’s son denied throwing the egg which allegedly struck the plaintiff’s daughter. Plaintiffs brought a personal injury action against the retailer.
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Lessons Learned In Law School
LawTechnologyToday
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America as “Ones to Watch” and has obtained multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients in personal injury, wrongful death, and crime victim cases. Mingo (MJM) is a founding member of the personal injury firm Mingo & Yankala, S.C.
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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2021
Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. However, at his deposition, the defendant’s son denied throwing the egg which allegedly struck the plaintiff’s daughter. Plaintiffs brought a personal injury action against the retailer.
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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. However, at his deposition, the defendant’s son denied throwing the egg which allegedly struck the plaintiff’s daughter. Plaintiffs brought a personal injury action against the retailer.
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