Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 20, 2022

I’ve mentioned in previous articles that 43 years ago, the profession of “paralegals” and “legal assistants” didn’t really exist. Legal secretaries absorbed some of what is now considered paralegal responsibilities. I’ll start with what I view as most important, both in life and in legal. Value your legal team.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

19, 2022), plaintiff county filed this legal malpractice suit against defendant attorney who had represented the county in an underlying action filed by a former county employee. In Coffee County v. Spining , No. M2020-01438-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 168145 (Tenn. On appeal, dismissal was affirmed. Code Ann.§ 28-4-104(c)(1); citation omitted).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, there are still some notable additions that raise more legal frights. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 26, 2023

Japan ) Two weeks later, a civil complaint involving the same facts received a first-instance judgment rejecting the request for an injunction to block the construction and operation of coal-fired power plants. and requested an injunction to block the construction and subsequent operation of two coal-fired power plants.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rock Creek Construction, Inc. , 1, 2022), plaintiffs filed suit against defendant construction company related to defendant’s construction of plaintiffs’ residential home, and defendant filed a counterclaim, which was the claim at issue in this appeal. In Reiss v. E2021-01513-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16559447 (Tenn. quoting Tenn.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

A litigation paralegal is a legal professional who provides vital support to attorneys who work in the area of litigation. Paralegals play an indispensable role in the legal process, handling things such as document review and analysis, legal research, drafting pleadings, and managing case files. What is a litigation paralegal?

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2021

The duties of care of a sponsor under contract and/or tort law are also determined by the degree of control exercised by a sponsor and the economic dependence of the athlete on the sponsor. However, there is still uncertainty about the acceptance of UN sales law by internationally operating companies and their legal advisors.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Michael Smith brought tort claims against New Zealand’s seven largest GHG emitters, which are collectively responsible for one-third of all New Zealand GHG emissions. He argued the defendants’ activities amount to torts of public nuisance and negligence, and also raised a novel claim asserting that the defendants have a climate duty.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 14, 2021

A mother of four who graduated from Cardozo Law School and became a public defender with the Legal Aid Society. ” Her comments left to a 2019 complaint from the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid Caucus and Attorneys of Color of Legal Aid. of the agreement, but The Legal Aid Society has made it impossible for her to do so.”

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Day on Torts

MAY 10, 2022

A duty of care is “the legal obligation owed by defendant to plaintiff to conform to a reasonable person standard of care for the protection against unreasonable risks of harm.” Plaintiff essentially argued that defendant “had constructive notice that [the dog] returned to the property and was inside Ms. internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

MAY 31, 2022

Based on this legal standard, the Court of Appeals agreed that plaintiff did not comply with the HCLA pre-suit notice requirements here. However, VUMC’s actual or constructive knowledge is not our concern. internal citations omitted). In our case, the second and third pre-suit notices were directed to ‘Vanderbilt University.’

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

Let’s start with, how did you get into the legal profession? This allowed me to learn more about the legal profession so that I could potentially advance and learn even more. The firm I was with didn’t do a lot of legal research. Let’s interview Jessie and see what lessons we can learn from her experience.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 18, 2023

TCL Vietnam: Texas law defines ‘doing business’ within the state to include committing a tort in the state. Here, the sale of infringing product in the state is patent infringement — a tort. On this point, the patentee argued that it served the defendants’ legally designated agent in the State of Texas.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

By analysing the sole definition of private international law, coordination mechanisms, the concept of legal relativity, connecting rules and factors, transnational cooperation and vertical disciplines in the regional context, prof. Through his lecture, prof.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In cross-border proceedings, service of legal documents poses particular problems, which are addressed by the European Regulation on the Service of Documents. Contractual” duties of care corresponding with negligence in tort, on the other hand, fall within the scope of the Regulation Rome II. This norm is part of procedural law.

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At the Lectern

JULY 6, 2023

In other words, there’s no legal exposure for employee family member virus exposure. Allowing liability “would impose an intolerable burden on employers and society in contravention of public policy,” the court says. ” The opinion does, however, leave unaddressed some issues that could change the bottom line.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 9, 2024

” … This is a well-constructed and well-supported decision that could have lasting importance. In addition to alienating much of their markets with echo journalism, these outlets are now facing mounting legal costs due to attack pieces like this one. The bill is now coming due.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. While his death was due to the negligent lack of road barriers, his family will face considerable legal barriers to recovery that could prove insurmountable.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2023

She asserted claims in tort and under the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL ) in schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ( CCA ) against companies behind the ship: Carnival plc and its subsidiary, Princess Cruise Lines Ltd (together, Princess ).

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

On appeal, defendant argued that although plaintiff was a named owner on the annuity, “they were owners in name only and that the effect of the transaction establishing the annuity was to create something of a constructive trust for Decedent [mother] with [defendant’s] ‘legal posture’ in the nature of a trustee or custodian.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2024

” The Court must look to each of the statements in the context of the entire broadcast or social media post to assess the construction placed upon it by the average viewer. For full disclosure, while I worked twice for NBC/MSNBC, I now work as a legal analyst for Fox Corp. The case is Amin v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC.

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LexForti

JUNE 2, 2022

Considering India’s clear restriction on attorneys entering into conditional fee arrangements [24] , the researcher urge that India’s rules only enable participants to pursue funds straight without the participation of their legal counsel. As a result, in terms of arbitration proceedings, TPF’s legality cannot be questioned [32].

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The appellate court also agreed with the court below that it was not appropriate to recognize a new tort of “intentional investment in abnormally dangerous activities” advocated by the plaintiffs on behalf of future generations. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. filed Oct.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 30, 2021

I previously wrote about the historical and legal perspectives of a biting incident involving one of the presidential pets, Major. In the prior column , I noted that under tort law a dog is afforded (at most) “one free bite” before strict liability applies. They were then quietly brought back.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting. Voting is now open! 14-17, 2024, in Chicago.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Without this extension of coverage, the workers might be left without such protection and be forced to rely on a long, expensive civil tort case to obtain a remedy for workplace injury or disease.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Hill accepted the fine but downplayed the offense and punishment as “constructive criticism”: “As a physician and a professional, I always look for ways to improve my practice. Sometimes this includes accepting constructive criticism from others. There is also a question of legal liability.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

CBD is completely legal but THC continues in some contexts to be illegal. That rule of construction, she said, suggests that in the event of any doubt the court should permit Horn’s suit to proceed. Horn bought Medical Marijuana’s hemp-based Dixie X after reading that it contained CBD but no THC.

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2023

The United States Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case that will decide whether the National Labor Relations Board or state courts should handle tort claims arising from strike action. The court’s forthcoming decision in Glacier Northwest v.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He has found considerable success as a rising star in the Arizona legal industry and had the opportunity to argue before the Supreme Court on three different occasions. It sounds cliché, but whether you are working in a legal clinic or clerking (for a judge or in private practice) you come to realize there are real people counting on you.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Deuring: Gender and International Private Law – Comments on the New Article 7a of the German Introductory Act to the Civil Code Although the attribution of a specific gender to a person has become less important in the German legal order, it can still be relevant. In terms of legal policy, the trader’s recourse should be abolished.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Tenth Circuit ordered the injunction to remain in place pending consideration of the environmental groups’ appeal of a district court order that declined to vacate mining lease modifications that authorized road construction in the Sunset Roadless Area. Sierra Club v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

After Denying Motions to Stop Construction Activities in National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska Federal Court Enjoined Certain Work for Two Weeks. On February 6, the court issued an injunction on certain construction activities through February 20 or until the Ninth Circuit rules on any motions for injunction pending appeal. 2019-398 (Vt.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The Tenth Circuit vacated and remanded the exemptions after EPA moved for vacatur and voluntary remand, conceding that it did not analyze determinative legal questions regarding the refineries’ eligibility for the extensions. First Circuit Declined to Bar Construction of Power Line in Maine. Circuit granted the motion on May 26, 2021.

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