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What This Paralegal Has Learned After Working With Attorneys for 40 Years

Paralegal Bootcamp

Calendar the event on your calendar, and the attorney’s calendar. When making a calendar item, whether it is a hearing, phone call, client meeting, or even a deposition, I use the appointment notes in Outlook so that when the attorney pulls up the meeting or call, he has a quick set of notes for easy reference.

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Launching Today: Clarra, A Cloud Case Management Platform Designed for Docket-Driven Litigation Firms

LawSites

The product is designed to work well for any type of civil litigation firm, from personal injury to mass torts and class actions, and to be simple to use right out of the box, Caindec said. ” To ensure that final versions of documents are properly tracked, docketed and calendared, Clarra includes a feature called Mail Log.

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How to Become a Certified Paralegal

Blackstone Career Institute

Upon completing the program, you can expect to have the ability to: Define basic legal terms and concepts related to contracts, torts, negligence, defamation (civil and criminal), property, crime, and larceny. Distinguish between crimes and torts, including identifying the classes of crime and degrees of larceny.

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Bystander-NIED opinion filing Monday

At the Lectern

This is one that torts professors are probably anxiously awaiting. This will be the second decision in the nine cases argued on the late -May calendar. Additional argued but undecided cases are the seven on the June calendar (opinions expected by August 29). City of Riverside. Briefs here ; oral argument video here.)

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Independent contractor injury opinion filing tomorrow

At the Lectern

Sandoval is expected to address whether a company that hires an independent contractor can be liable in tort for injuries sustained by the contractor’s employee based solely on the company’s negligent failure to undertake safety measures or whether more affirmative action is required to implicate Hooker v. 2d Torts, § 414)?

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New Filevine Feature Uses AI to Summarize Incoming Leads and Predict the Best Matches for A Firm

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Notes Summarization: LeadsAI can generate consolidated timelines of all activities related to a lead, saving firms from having to sort through emails, calendars, and status reports. In this way, Filevine says, firms can better understand engagement patterns and identify opportunities to refine their outreach.

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Harnessing the Power of Technology to Improve Litigation Management

LawTechnologyToday

Of course, a trial calendar feature is but one benefit of a case management system. Whether litigation is local or nationwide, we use these systems to track trial dates, discovery deadlines, depositions and court appearances and to present them in calendars or reports — thus ensuring no date or deadline “slips through the cracks.”.