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National Staffing Organization Opens MediSums, Medical Records Summarizing

The Estrin Report

The launch comes at a critical time as the COVID-19 global pandemic adds pressure with personal injury, med/mal, products liability, mass tort, healthcare, workers comp cases and insurance claims on the rise. The best Plan B's are different, but.

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More on the Validity of the PDVSA 2020 Bonds

Conflict of Laws

It conducted a debt swap in which investors exchanged unsecured PDVSA bonds for new ones due in 2020. To sweeten the deal, the PDVSA 2020s were backed by collateral in the form of a 50.1% The PDVSA 2020 bonds are in default. The story of the PDVSA 2020 bonds is a common one in government debt markets. Times have changed.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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Australia Robodebt royal commission hands down findings, recommends referrals for prosecution

JURIST

The Commission stated: Robodebt was a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal, and it made many people feel like criminals. It was a costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms The report stated, “elements of the tort of misfeasance in public office appear to exist.”

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ILSPA’s Legal Secretaries Diploma Live online classes

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Our partner’s The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs are delighted to be offering live online classes , which start on Wednesday 26 January 2022. ILSPA’s Legal Secretaries Diploma course is equivalent to a Level 3 qualification. Introduction: General Procedures & Legal Terminology. ?Unit

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Mixed Messages from the ABA, As It ‘Reaffirms’ Rule Against Nonlawyer Ownership while also Encouraging Innovation

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Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers. But in approving the resolution today, the ABA added an endorsement of a resolution it adopted in 2020 that was designed to encourage state efforts at innovation.

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UK Supreme Court rules person under criminal investigation has reasonable expectation of privacy

JURIST

Claiming a tort of misuse of private information, ZXC sought damages and injunctive relief against Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal in 2020, but the Supreme Court agreed later that year to hear the matter. In 2019, the trial judge ruled in his favor and awarded damages of £25,000.