Law 360
MAY 19, 2023
The firm Butzel Long cannot defend itself from a malpractice suit using a time-barring statute of repose that hadn't been enacted as law yet at the time when the firm signed a tolling agreement with its former client, a Michigan appellate court ruled.
LegalReader
AUGUST 8, 2022
As with most types of personal injury lawsuits, the statute of limitations for medical malpractice is 2 years from the time of the injury-causing event. However, there are several exceptions that allow you to sue later. .
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Law 360
MAY 30, 2023
A Michigan federal judge has said a steakhouse embroiled in a negligence suit with its former attorney can't strike the lawyer's statute of limitations defense, ruling the company had overshot the 21-day deadline for the motion by nearly a year.
LawSites
JULY 27, 2022
But the California Senate has effectively shut down those working groups with a bill ( AB-2958 ), which is still pending, that would prevent any California State Bar committee from recommending any changes to the rules that only lawyers can own legal practices or deliver legal services. Listening as the chief justice answers my question.
LawSites
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Justice tech — legal tech that helps low-income folks with no or some ability to pay, that assists the lawyers who serve those folks, and that makes the courts more efficient and effective — must contend with a higher hurdle than wooing Silicon Valley VCs: the civil justice system itself. And then the necessary investment will happen.
SCOTUSBlog
AUGUST 29, 2023
The court’s other task — interpreting federal statutes — remains markedly underrepresented. Similarly, securities laws have produced a steady diet of cases at the court each year since the adoption of the major securities statutes in 1933 and 1934. Two of the nation’s leading securities scholars, A.C.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 17, 2023
There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. When I imagine a foreign lawyer trying to explain this system to a foreign client, my heart fills with pity. Until recently, there was no data that would allow a foreign lawyer – or a U.S.
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