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How to Keep Multi-Year Cases Organized at Employment Law Firms

CARET Legal

To overcome the administrative challenges of employment law cases, your firm must adopt a systematic, structured approach to case management. Managing employment law cases that span multiple years can be overwhelming. Staying up-to-date with these changes can be a challenge when managing long-term cases.

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Affordable bail or other release conditions required instead of pretrial detention in most cases

At the Lectern

” The court nonetheless acknowledges that “no condition of release can entirely. ” However, “a court must first find by clear and convincing evidence that no condition short of detention could suffice and then ensure the detention otherwise complies with statutory and constitutional requirements.”

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How to Do Legal Research: The Ultimate Overview

MyCase

A reasonable goal/desired outcome to expect The facts of the case: who, what, where, when, how By answering these initial questions, you can then narrow your search to be more specific. Many legal experts use case management software to assist with tracking client and case information right from the intake stage.

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Is it Worth it to Become a Litigation Paralegal?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Legal research skills Legal research skills are essential for finding and analyzing laws, regulations, and court decisions pertinent to the case you’re working on. Attention to detail is very important for litigation paralegals. Being a proficient legal researcher makes you an invaluable asset to your team.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

A Hawaii court held that the Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review for commercial taking of aquarium fish and that Department of Land and Natural Resources issuance and renewal of licenses for commercial aquarium collection without environmental review was invalid and illegal. Chevron Corp. , 3:18-cv-07477 (N.D.

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US DOJ says Nebraska’s excessive institutionalization violates civil rights of mentally ill

JURIST

The case emerged from complaints by Nebraskans that the state was improperly subjecting mental health patients to segregation from general society, in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and the 1999 US Supreme Court decision Olmstead v.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

which has returned to the Northern District of California, the court scheduled a case management conference for November 12, 2020. Subsequent to the Supreme Court decision, the government of Nepal passed the Environment Protection Act of 2019 and the Forests Act of 2019. BP p.l.c. , 2:18-cv-00758 (W.D. BP p.l.c. ,

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