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Arizona’s Alternative Business Structure Program Improved Access To Justice For Tort Victims And Possibly Large Companies

Above The Law

Around that time, courts in some states, including California and Utah, set up task forces to study amending their professional ethics rules to address the access to justice problem. Steven Chung is a tax attorney in Los Angeles, California. The report claims that this is partially attributable due to the existing ethics rules.

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What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?

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Utah is in the early stages of a seven-year “regulatory sandbox” pilot program to conduct its own experiment with alternative business structures. 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.

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LawNext Podcast: Filevine CEO Ryan Anderson on His Company’s $108M Raise and the Future of Practice Management

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Last week, Filevine , the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round. Before starting Filevine, Anderson was a founding partner at a western-states law firm focused on personal injury, mass torts and employment class-actions.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court said the laws’ provision for criminal or tort liability for advising, encouraging, or soliciting persons participating in a riot to acts of force or violence was overbroad and vague. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility filed a complaint in the federal district court for the District of Columbia challenging BLM’s approval of 2,067 oil and gas leases covering almost two million acres of public lands across five states—Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

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Is Eric Swalwell The Answer To Trump’s Prayers?

JonathanTurley

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine insisted weeks ago that Trump’s alleged crime would be investigated. As if to guarantee failure, Swalwell picked the very tort — emotional distress — that was previously rejected by the Supreme Court. Mike Lee (R-Utah) instead of Sen. who told him of the breach.

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Trump’s Liability Or Opportunity? Two Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump Over Capitol Riot

JonathanTurley

attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. Around 2:26, Trump mistakenly called Utah Sen. Then nothing happened.