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Contingency Fees Can Create Perverse Incentives

Above The Law

Contingency fees are a time-honored tradition in the legal profession through which attorneys accept a case in exchange for a portion of a recovery if a favorable outcome is achieved. Unwillingness To Settle Settlements are extremely important to the legal system.

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Legal Tech Startup Ai.law Can Now Draft the Complaint for Your Lawsuit

LawSites

Ai.law , a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. Describe a fact scenario and Ai.law can help identify legal claims. A description of the matter and chronology of events.

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

LawSites

The e-discovery company DISCO said today it has entered into a long-term license with the international legal research company vLex to obtain access to its U.S. legal research materials. primary law library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions.

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8 Steps to Be the Rockstar Personal Injury Paralegal

Paralegal Bootcamp

The statute of limitations is a time limit on a particular cause of action. If the law firm accepted the case before the statute of limitations period expired, it could result in a finding of legal malpractice. Know the Litigation Process. Fast-Track Your Personal Injury Paralegal Career.

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No cause of action against employers for take-home COVID

At the Lectern

In other words, there’s no legal exposure for employee family member virus exposure. ” “[E]xclusivity provisions bar a third party claim only when proof of an employee’s injury is required as an element of the cause of action,” the court says.

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Smith v Fonterra: A Common Law Climate Litigation Breakthrough

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. Under New Zealand law, such arguments should be struck out only if they “disclose[] no reasonably arguable cause of action”. Even as successful cases against governments have blossomed, private suits face significant barriers.

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Conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws” at Oxford, 20–21 March 2025

Conflict of Laws

Characterisation identifies in cross-border litigation the nature or category of a particular cause of action (for instance contractual, tortious, proprietary, corporate, matrimonial), so that the correct connecting factor can be employed.

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