ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In our new report, Climate Risk in the Electricity Sector: Legal Obligations to Advance Climate Resilience Planning by Electric Utilities , we show that it is also legally required under state public utility law and tort law. This type of planning is not just good practice, however.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

Those job responsibilities can sound vague to someone who does not already work in the legal profession, so let’s take a closer look at a few key responsibilities of a litigation paralegal. Free Guide for Personal Injury Paralegals Are you ready to be a rockstar personal injury paralegal?! Assist at trial.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

At its LEX Summit user conference this week, the law practice management company Filevine made two major product announcements, and its CEO outlined a broad vision for incorporating AI throughout the company’s products. Once extracted and labeled, the client data (name, date of birth, etc.)

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MyCase

AUGUST 22, 2022

But there are several ways to practice law. A boutique law firm’s case management process provides a different experience for lawyers and clients. . In this article, we’ll uncover what you need to know about boutique firms, such as: What is a boutique law firm and what is biglaw? Tips for running a boutique law firm.

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Paralegal.edu

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

On February 26, 2022, at 10:00 AM Central, Center for Advanced Legal Studies will hold its 69th Commencement Ceremony for graduates of its paralegal programs. Sepi has over 20 years of legal and administrative experience with a current focus primarily on personal injury law and related torts.

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Good thing that there was a law librarian nearby who could witness her acrobatics and then blog at out it to the world. As it turns out, South Carolina, where Young Lady happened to trip and tear up her knees, has it's own Torts Claim Act called, not surprisingly, the South Carolina Tort Claims Act under § 15-78-10.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

Let’s start with, how did you get into the legal profession? She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. This allowed me to learn more about the legal profession so that I could potentially advance and learn even more. Well, I met my husband in 1996.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

This is because some paralegals might prefer a corporate setting as an in-house paralegal, while others might thrive in a law firm setting working in civil litigation or other commercial litigation. A litigation paralegal is a legal professional who provides vital support to attorneys who work in the area of litigation.

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Blackstone Career Institute

MARCH 28, 2024

This program provides students with foundational knowledge and skills needed in the legal field. We also offer correspondence Advanced Paralegal Certificate Courses for incarcerated individuals.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2022

In teaching torts, we often discuss the vague line between self-defense and retaliation in cases of assault and battery. Clearly Langley could have retreated, but the Georgia law appears only to stipulate a duty to retreat in the use of deadly force. 1) Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.2C:3-5, 2C:3-5, N.J.S.2C:3-9,

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LawTechnologyToday

MAY 6, 2021

Over the last five decades, we have witnessed three medical malpractice crises which have each led to soaring insurance premiums, an avalanche of new legal claims, and insurers calling it quits in many of the affected states. Before the change, juries had granted six- and seven-digit personal injury awards in some medical malpractice cases.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 21, 2022

The Court found that the relationship relied on between the youth plaintiffs and the Minister lacked the closeness and directness that the common law demands before finding an applicant is entitled to a legal remedy against a party whose conduct has caused or may cause them harm. The Minister subsequently appealed the decision.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. On September 1, 2023, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress promulgated the Foreign State Immunity Law of the People’s Republic of China (FSIL) (English translation here ). In 2005, China signed the U.N.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. While his death was due to the negligent lack of road barriers, his family will face considerable legal barriers to recovery that could prove insurmountable. Disclaimer.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 4, 2021

Written by Andrew Dickinson (Fellow, St Catherine’s College and Professor of Law, University of Oxford). With no signal that the EU-27 will support the UK’s swift readmission to the latter, a new era for private international law in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland beckons.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The California state law at issue in Flagstar Bank v. Kivett , and the New York state law in Cantero v. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that the California law requiring escrow interest was not preempted by the National Bank Act. Nelson ,…517 U.S. Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

As a result, litigation under privacy laws protecting individuals’ biometric information has exploded. And as the New Crown case demonstrates, there will be additional litigation over the extent to which insurance covers these claims, particularly as more states ratify laws providing a private right of action for biometric privacy violations.

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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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 30, 2021

I previously wrote about the historical and legal perspectives of a biting incident involving one of the presidential pets, Major. Now Major has bitten another person who reportedly required medical attention. However, the city has laws that impose liability for allowed dogs to run free before an injury. Washington, D.C.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The result is a wicked brew of negligence, product defects, intentional torts, and every other tort and crime known above the netherworld. So without further ado, here are this year’s spookiest of torts. Both Kelly and Rando sued for torts ranging from assault to intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 12, 2023

Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. Russia joined the restrictive immunity camp in 2016 when its law on the jurisdictional immunity of foreign states went into effect. If adopted, this law would move China to into the restrictive immunity camp as well.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 28, 2021

Cross border relations is bound to generate non-contractual disputes such as personal injury cases. In such situations, the law that applies is very important in determining the rights and obligations of the parties. Article 4 of Rome II applies to general torts/delicts such as personal injury cases.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

2255, “Civil Remedy for Personal Injuries,” which provides that any person who is a victim of a violation of child pornography may recover the actual damages or liquidated damages in the amount of $150,000 per victim, and reasonable attorney’s fees. The case is brought under statutes like 18 U.S.C. In 2002, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. First, the court found that Exxon failed to show that federal common law justified removal, even if it might provide a defense. and non-U.S. 21-9518 (10th Cir.

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