Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2022

In litigation, for example, in a large firm, as a litigation paralegal , you may perform only discovery tasks whereas, in a small firm, you may be handling case intakes, case management, writing demands, filing lawsuits, performing discovery, legal research, motion practice, and trial practice. Incomes rise as experience grows.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 6, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit addressed several key issues in intellectual property litigation, including the scope of "absolute litigation privilege" under Illinois law, trade dress functionality, and the consequences of discovery sanctions. 2022-1817, 2022-1892 (Fed. Toyo Tire Corp.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law ( AMEDIP ) will be holding its annual XLV Seminar entitled “Private International Law in the conformation of a new international order” ( el derecho internacional privado en la conformación de un nuevo orden internacional ) from 16 to 18 November 2022.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

M2021-01347-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16846642 (Tenn. 10, 2022), plaintiffs and defendants had been involved in extensive litigation related to a boundary line dispute running between their residential properties. In Barrios v. Simpkins , No. This opinion was released three months after oral arguments in this case.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The revision of this regulation, which will enter into force on 1 July 2022, provides an opportunity to examine the current and future rules by taking the example of the international service of writs of summons. Predictability is the core ambition, not a particular outcome in litigation. van Calster: Lex ecologia.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When a litigant has filed a motion to dismiss pursuant to the Tennessee Public Participation Act (TPPA), that motion should be analyzed under the provisions of the TPPA rather than under the traditional Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 12 analysis. E2021-01513-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16559447 (Tenn. In Reiss v. This opinion was released 3.5

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2022

The first issue of the Journal of Private International law for 2022 was released yesterday. F Rielaender, “Financial torts and EU private international law: will the search for the place of “financial damage” ever come to an end?”

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Edoardo Benvenuti , Research Fellow at the University of Milan, Climate change litigation e diritto internazionale privato dell’Unione europea: quale spazio per la tutela collettiva? Climate Change Litigation and EU Private International Law: Is There Room for Collective Redress?; Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2022, 2 voll.,

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

M2021-00107-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 244532 (Tenn. 27, 2022), plaintiff’s father and defendant were neighbors. Whether a plaintiff is considered a trespasser will greatly affect the potential duty owed by defendant, and anyone litigating this issue should read this opinion. . Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law ?

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

M2021-00878-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 4490980 (Tenn. 28, 2022), plaintiff was a real estate professional involved in some capacity with Durham Farms, which was a large residential community. This case is accordingly an important read for anyone litigating a case that might implicate the TPPA. In Charles v. McQueen , No.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2022

That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. I argued for the laws at the time of litigation. courts interpret choice-of-law clauses.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 25, 2023

An Ontology of the In-Between [18th Ernst Rabel Lecture, 2022] [OPEN ACCESS], 433–464, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2023-0063 The conflict of laws can serve heuristically to underscore two established but radically opposing models of modernist legal ordering: multilateralism and statutism. The latest issue of RabelsZ has just been released.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. What makes you unique or innovative?

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Fordham Law News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

They all used bankruptcy to try to get out of mass tort claims. [1] 8] The second step is to then transfer the tort liabilities into the new corporations. [9] 12] Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson used the Texas two-step to avoid tort liabilities regarding its talc claims. [13] 12, 2022), [link] [2] Id. [3]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 23, 2023

.’ [4] Additionally, some judges, citing Article 1338 BW in Indonesia, regard the choice of foreign law as a contractual agreement not to resolve a dispute in the Indonesian courts, and many lawyers present a contract claim as tort. Anyone interested in choice of law will therefore be fascinated by this book. [1] 2] Penasthika (ibid).

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

For litigants embroiled in cross-border litigation, the anti-suit injunction has become a staple in the conflict of laws arsenal of common law courts. This was the scenario facing the New Zealand High Court in the recent case of Kea Investments Ltd v Wikeley Family Trustee Limited [2022] NZHC 2881.

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SimplyLawJobs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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. Unit 2: Law of Contract & Law of Tort. Unit 3: Civil Litigation Practice. The units are set out as follows: . Unit 1: English Legal System.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, no substantial revisions were made to the provisions concerning foreign-related civil litigation. The new law widens the category of disputes previously covered from “contractual disputes or other property rights disputes” to “litigation other than disputes involving personal relationships” (Art. Jurisdiction 2.1 276, para.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 17, 2022

Boule , 596 U.S. _ (2022), the U.S. Boule filed a grievance with Agent Egbert’s supervisors and an ad- ministrative claim with Border Patrol pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). In Egbert v. Supreme Court held that the authority of a court to imply a cause of action under Bivens v. Border Patrol agent. Anderson v.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 2, 2023

On 30 December 2022, China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress issued the “Civil Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China (amendment draft)”. Jurisdiction over cyber torts: With regard to cyber torts, Art. Jurisdiction over cyber torts: With regard to cyber torts, Art. 276, para.

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At the Lectern

JULY 6, 2023

” The court is also concerned that “the potential litigation explosion facilitated by a duty to prevent COVID-19 infections in household members would place significant burdens on the judicial system and, ultimately, the community.” 2022) 601 F.Supp.3d Superior Court (2021) 73 Cal.App.5th

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hdeel Abdelhady , who teaches part-time in the areas of international trade and Islamic law, sued the university for a variety of torts, including allegations that counsel for the university made overtures to an administrative judge about securing a federal judgeship. That claim failed and the D.C. See Abdelhady v. 3d 896 (D.C.

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LexForti

JUNE 2, 2022

It was clearly pronounced that “there appears to be no restriction on third parties (non-lawyers) funding the litigation and getting repaid after the outcome of the litigation” [18]. This was further supported when the Criminal Law Act, of 1967 did away with these crimes and torts of “maintenance” and “champerty”. Balaji [17].

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 29, 2023

Krapfl: The end of US discovery pursuant to Section 1782 in support of international arbitration The US Supreme Court held on 13 June 2022 that discovery in the United States pursuant to 28 U.S.C. While the decision is formally a procedural one, its most striking passages address substantive tort law.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The lawsuit commenced by the migrant workers from Nepal and Bangladesh is an example of business and human rights litigation against British multinationals for the damage caused in their overseas operations. Facts The proceedings were commenced in May 2022.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

The EU Commission published a long awaited Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD), COM(2022) 71 final, on 23 February 2022; the EU Council adopted its negotiation position on 1 December 2022; and now, the EU Parliament has suggested amendments to this Draft Directive on 1 June 2023.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

In a 2022 press release introducing New York’s then-unprecedented Climate Superfund bill, one of the bill’s sponsors directly stated that the bill was inspired by source attribution research (specifically, research on carbon dioxide and methane emissions attributable to fossil fuel and cement producers).

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 12, 2023

If damage caused by non-compliance with la Loi de Vigilance, any person with legitimate interest can seek reparation under tort law. If we rewind the story a little bit, the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) stated above, firstly, served a formal notice to BNP on 26 October 2022 to stop supporting the development of fossil fuels.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2022

Reimann: Human Rights Litigation Beyond the Alien Tort Claims Act: The Crucial Role of the Act of State Doctrine. The Kashef case currently before the federal courts in New York shows that human rights litigation against corporate defendants in the United States is alive and well.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 21, 2022

E2020-00688-COA-R10-CV, 2022 WL 1042733 (Tenn. April 7, 2022), plaintiff was the school secretary at an elementary school, and defendant was the employer of school bus drivers for that school. E2020-00755-COA-R10-CV (April 7, 2022) and Schrick v. E2020-00796-COA-R10-CV (April 7, 2022)). In Bibbs v.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 14, 2022

The editors mourn the loss of Professor Peter Mankowski (1966–2022), who served as an editor of the ZVglRWiss from 2009 to his untimely death. Ekhator: Multinational Corporations, Accountability and Environmental Justice: The move towards subregional litigation in Africa. Knöfel (Viadrina). Here are the abstracts: Eghosa O.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

E2021-00812-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 14199150 (Tenn. 25, 2022), plaintiff filed multiple tort claims against multiple defendants, including libel claims against certain defendants based on their social media statements related to the death of a dog who died while in the care of plaintiff’s dog training business. In Laferney v.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 4, 2022

Kieninger : Climate Change Litigation and Private International Law. Hau : Personal involvement as a prerequisite for European tort jurisdiction at the centre of the plaintiff’s interests. The following article discusses the questions whether such divorces can be recognised according to Art.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 21, 2022

On March 15, 2022, the Full Federal Court of Australia, an intermediate appellate court, unanimously overturned the primary judge’s decision in Sharma and Others v. The decision has significant implications for future climate litigation claims in Australia. Sharma and Others and its impact for climate litigation in Australia.

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Intelligize Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Coming off what S&P described as “a historically slow year in 2022,” the first two months of 2023 saw 111 corporations file bankruptcy petitions. Essentially, the Texas Two-Step refers to a legal maneuver in which a parent company transfers its tort liabilities to a spin-off entity that remains under the parent company’s control.

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