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Litigation Finance: The Indian Scenario

LexForti

I am Sanjita Mittal , and I have earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, and a master’s degree in Intellectual Property Rights from Symbiosis Law School, Pune. I have practiced in the High Court of Delhi under the tutelage of Mr. Pramod Verma. TPLF Heyday.

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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

LawSites

In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet. The Massachusetts case did involve a lawyer, as well as the lawyer’s associate and two recent law school graduates not yet admitted to practice.

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Reflections from Columbia’s Forum on Climate-Related Fiduciary Duty

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The New Climate Fiduciaries Colloquium The New Climate Fiduciaries Colloquium, held at Columbia Law School, brought together approximately three hundred participants who explored whether, and how, corporate directors and officers are obligated to respond to climate change. American Airlines , that American Airlines, Inc.

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Seeking Transparency in Waco

Patently O

Chao was a patent attorney and patent litigator for 20 years before becoming a professor and I have long valued his insight. Judge Alan Albright’s court in the Western District of Texas is rapidly becoming the latest hot spot for patent litigation. Moreover, individual court rules are now requiring greater transparency.

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You Can’t Manipulate Venue!

The IP Law Blog

How many of the lawyers out there liked hypotheticals in law school? The court found that Ikorongo Texas did not have the right to sue anywhere except in the Western District of Texas, so it could not have filed the lawsuits in California. I did not, but this case prompted me to write one!

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RCD Holdings Ltd v LT Game International (Australia) Ltd: Foreign jurisdiction clauses and COVID-19

Conflict of Laws

By Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Law School Australia. Finally, the court ruled for the defendant and dismissed the plaintiffs’ claim. 1] In exercising its discretion, the court should take into account all the circumstances of the particular case.

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Mbatha v. Cutting: Implications for Litigants of Indian Origin

Conflict of Laws

In determining the applicable law, the Court upheld the traditional approach , which favours lex situs for real property and lex domicilii for personal property. student at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, and a Blog Editor at the Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT).