HowAppealing

MARCH 31, 2022

“Ohio Supreme Court asked to overturn tort reform law that lowered Brook Park child rapist’s judgment from $20 million to $250,000”: Laura Hancock of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report. Attorney Robert S. The Supreme Court of Ohio has posted online the video of yesterday’s oral argument at this link.

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Law 360

MARCH 23, 2023

The Florida Senate on Thursday passed a sweeping tort reform bill that changes the comparative negligence standards for jury verdicts, cuts the statute of limitations for injury cases in half, and eliminates one-way attorney fees and fee multipliers for all lines of insurance, sending the bill to Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The night after the jurys verdict, Shockleys attorney learned that the jury foreman had written a fictionalized autobiography in which he, as the main character, murdered the drunk driver who had killed his wife to get revenge after the driver only received probation. Shockley was convicted and sentenced to death.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In re Grand Jury asks the court to consider whether attorney-client privilege shields communications from grand jury subpoenas. Specifically, the court will determine whether attorney-client privilege covers communications involving both legal and non-legal advice when the communication was created for the purpose of obtaining legal advice.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It is a realistic prediction that we’ll live in a world where thousands of estate planning lawyers work for Fidelity, and hedge funds run the most significant plaintiff tort outfits. appeared first on Attorney at Work. They will not be afraid of technology or taking big risks on new business models. Unfortunately, I doubt it.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There are obvious and nuanced differences between intentional torts and negligence. A seasoned attorney will help you understand the different standards.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Hallucinations are incorrect outputs that could lead to tort liabilities, consumer harm or regulatory breaches. However, in the context of lawyers using artificial intelligence , AI poses problems such as “hallucinations,” unpredictability, and response divergence.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Cisco rehearing denial allows a new invocation of the Alien Tort Statute to proceed, which could capture the U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray. The Ninth Circuit's Doe v. Supreme Court's attention, and has potentially dramatic consequences for U.S.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In my own defense, the last 25 years of my career has been dedicated to one attorney as a contracted tort litigation paralegal. Task them with teaching another new hire or have them take the lead in providing status to the attorney. In that moment it occurred to me I had gravely miscalculated my training and mentoring methods.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For any plaintiff who's been injured or any young attorney just starting out in the field of tort law, it can be daunting to calculate…

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

1 Judicial Hellhole; Attorneys in Pennsylvania were quick to criticize the report, with the Alfred Carlson, president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association saying ‘ATRF’s suggestion that Pennsylvania and Philadelphia are judicial hellholes is an affront to the citizens of the Commonwealth and their elected officials.’”

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Law 360

JULY 2, 2024

The Beasley Allen Law Firm and Johnson & Johnson continue to spar over the firm and attorney Andy Birchfield's role in the long-running federal and state mass torts over talcum powder injuries, with the firm calling J&J out on Tuesday for "prodding" the New Jersey courts to boot the lawyers from the litigation.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Provided the employer prevailed in a lawsuit, they could have sought attorney’s fees, compensatory damages, and exemplary damages of $5,000 for each day a defendant acted in violation of the statute. Third, the state contended that the case was incorrectly decided.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 14, 2022

For example, an interest in big pharma could lead you to sources about health law, antitrust, mass torts, consumer protection, and science and technology. The post Practice Area Switcharoo: Become An Expert in Anything appeared first on Attorney at Work. Meanwhile, you may still be miserable in your job or financial situation.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

He is now bringing a claim against the UK Foreign Office, the Home Office and the Attorney General, to hold them vicariously liable for the actions of British intelligence services. The preliminary issue for the courts in this case was which law applied to the torts allegedly committed while Zubaydah was being held in these six countries.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Share In Re Grand Jury asks how courts should assess attorney-client privilege when a client seeks partly legal and partly nonlegal advice from a lawyer and the two parts cannot be disentangled. It may have reminded her of her first-year torts class. Monday’s oral argument exposed weaknesses and strengths in each side’s position.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Now, that works when the audience is other attorneys, who eat that stuff up. But, when trying to craft content for legal consumers, attorneys should take a different approach. Your potential clients have no idea what a tort is, won’t appreciate a turn of phrase originating with Cicero and prefer fewer syllables.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

The court also denied the motion by Alabama and 18 other states to bring a case against California and four other states directly in the Supreme Court to block a series of lawsuits against fossil fuel producers, saying that those suits impermissibly sought to dictate interstate energy policy through the aggressive use of state-law tort suits.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Following a $50 million gift to Drexel University’s law school in 2014, Philadelphia trial lawyer Thomas R. Kline has committed to give the same amount…

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Bankruptcy and its special powers are being used to compensate for what some court filings call the “ failure ” of tort litigation to efficiently and fully resolve all pending claims. Bankruptcy in Purdue’s case came after the company participated in the traditional tort process; it is the Sacklers’ third-party involvement that the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch already has the makings of a blockbuster tort action. ” The question is not whether but when the first torts lawsuit will be filed. .” What is clear is that there is an abundance of evidence to support a tort action even at this early stage.

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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. Again, the court agreed.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In re Grand Jury is a case involving grand jury subpoenas and attorney-client privilege. The court is asked to consider whether an unnamed law firm specializing in international tax was allowed to withhold documents in a grand jury proceeding on the basis of attorney-client privilege. In Santos-Zacaria v. In Glacier Northwest v.

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Law 360

JANUARY 5, 2024

Delaware's Court of Chancery on Friday stayed a North Carolina public water authority's suit to void asset transfers in what the authority termed a toxic pollution liability "shell game" by DuPont affiliates and successors, after defense attorneys acknowledged omissions in an opposition brief.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, the dispute also raises broader questions about whether and when it is appropriate to resolve mass tort cases – that is, lawsuits brought by a group of people who have been harmed in a similar way, such as in a plane crash or by a defective product – through the bankruptcy system.

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Blackstone Career Institute

JANUARY 24, 2025

All types of law offices, including prosecutors, defense attorneys, marital, occupational, and moreemploy paralegals to conduct critical aspects of their work. Distinguish between crimes and torts, including identifying the classes of crime and degrees of larceny. Paralegals are an integral part of the justice system.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 12, 2021

Where plaintiff alleged that defendant attorney fraudulently charged a higher hourly rate than what was agreed upon, the trial court should have engaged in a three-factor analysis to determine whether the written fee agreement could be used to defeat the fraud claim. In Vazeen v. M2019-01395-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citation omitted).

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LawSites

APRIL 27, 2022

Before starting Filevine, Anderson was a founding partner at a western-states law firm focused on personal injury, mass torts and employment class-actions. In his work as an attorney, Anderson says, he was constantly bombarded with urgent tasks and problems.

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Paralegal Mentor

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

They needed legal representation just to fight for their reputations so they turned to Atlanta Attorney L. He was referred to by newscaster Dan Rather as “the attorney for the damned.” Lin Wood known as an expert in First Amendment litigation and management of the media in high-profile cases.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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. Livesay , No. E2021-00812-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 14199150 (Tenn.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

About 15 percent of funds will go toward attorneys’ fees. The nation’s three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle opioid claims for up to $665 million with Native American tribes who have claimed they were harmed by decades of exposure to highly addictive painkillers, reports the Washington Post. .

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2022

Decedent’s brother Don had a springing power of attorney (POA) for decedent. One of the two plaintiff daughters also testified at trial that she got a phone call from decedent on October 5, 2009, in which decedent stated that he had taken her and Don “off” his power of attorney. Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

A litigation paralegal is someone who works under the supervision of an attorney who practices in criminal or civil litigation. A litigation paralegal assists the attorney with many case management duties, from the complaint through the trial and the appeal. WHAT IS A LITIGATION PARALEGAL? Draft pleadings and discovery.

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

19, 2022), plaintiff county filed this legal malpractice suit against defendant attorney who had represented the county in an underlying action filed by a former county employee. Note: Chapter 64, Section 5 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. In Coffee County v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Thompson’s defense attorney orally moved to dismiss the charges for facial insufficiency; the court ordered submission of a written motion. Thompson bolsters his argument through the state of the law for the analogous tort of malicious prosecution as of 1871, when Congress enacted Section 1983. Relying on the U.S.

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