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Contingency Fees Can Create Perverse Incentives

Above The Law

In many instances, contingency fees allow greater access to the legal system since clients who may not be able to pay for counsel fees might be able to pursue causes of action they otherwise would not be able to pursue if attorneys work on contingency. Unwillingness To Settle Settlements are extremely important to the legal system.

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Cause of Action? Personal Injury 101

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Each state has their own laws about how long from the date of the accident you have to file your personal injury suit.

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8 Steps to Be the Rockstar Personal Injury Paralegal

Paralegal Bootcamp

Paralegals are essential to a personal injury law firm, whether for a solo practitioner or a large firm with many lawyers. Among other important paralegal skills, knowing the medicine allows the lawyers more time to practice law and bring in more clients. It can also save a lawyer time, which makes you invaluable to the lawyer.

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Do Lawyers Make Simple Things Difficult?

InHouseBlog

Many lawyers come out of law school not knowing the practice of law but only the theory, and that theoretical underpinning can wreak havoc for some. Even looking at uneven pavement or a pothole gets some lawyers thinking of the potentially liable parties and the causes of action that could be asserted. Are we windbags?

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Smith v Fonterra: A Common Law Climate Litigation Breakthrough

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Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. Finally, I consider what courts and lawyers in other jurisdictions might learn from the Smith decision. Under New Zealand law, such arguments should be struck out only if they “disclose[] no reasonably arguable cause of action”.

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Ways to Determine How Much Your Personal Injury Case is Worth

LegalReader

But because personal injury law encompasses so many situations and causes of action, there is no set number. If you are considering one of these claims, you are probably wondering how much compensation you could recover.

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DISCO Licenses vLex Library In Move To Combine Legal Analysis with Factual Analysis within Its Platform

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The company said it will incorporate the legal research data into its core platform to create a marriage of factual development and legal analysis, allowing litigators to analyze fact patterns against the relevant law. “We Earlier this year, vLex acquired Fastcase and its collection of U.S. legal research materials.