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What I Learned in Paralegal School vs On The Job

Paralegal Bootcamp

Legal Research and Writing In my first year of studying Paralegal Studies, my school provided us with Westlaw/LexisNexis (legal research software) that we used for legal research purposes. The courses in legal research and writing equipped me with the ability to efficiently locate and analyze relevant statutes, regulations, and case law.

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Guest Post: Building Better Civil Justice Systems Isn’t Just About The Funding

LawSites

It is written by Mark Chandler , former chief legal officer at Cisco Systems from 2001- 2021 and now a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and a fellow at the Stanford’s Deborah L. And forms often change with little or no warning to litigants who may be operating on old information.

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Welcome Derrick Brent – USPTO Deputy Director

Patently O

After law school, Brent worked both for Vorys Sater and then the USDOJ before being recruited as Senior Counsel by Sen Boxer where he spent lots of time on the America Invents Act. His work has principally focused in litigation and policy related to intellectual property, civil rights, employment and commercial law.

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U.S. Supreme Court Renders Personal Jurisdiction Decision

Conflict of Laws

This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. Pennsylvania Fire approved a Missouri statute that required out-of-state insurance companies to appoint a state official as an agent for service of process for any suit. Washington (1945).

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Choice of law rules and statutory interpretation in the Ruby Princess Case in Australia

Conflict of Laws

Unsurprisingly, the cruise then spawned an inquiry and a class action against Carnival plc (Carnival) as charterer and operator of the Ruby Princess, and Princess Cruise Lines Ltd, the Bermuda-registered subsidiary and vessel owner. Statute has left little of the common law untouched.

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Justices to consider choice-of-law clauses in maritime insurance contracts

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Perhaps some of the justices will even enjoy a return to their law-school days, as they consider whether state or federal law should govern the enforceability of maritime choice-of-law clauses. So exactly why would that question ever matter?

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The Path to Success is Not Always a Straight Line.

InHouseOps

I earned my BA in film, television, and theatre from the University of Notre Dame, then went to Quinnipiac University School of Law thinking I would love litigation; something about being in a courtroom seemed to dovetail nicely with a theatre background. Our business counterparts don’t come to us for a law school 101 lesson.