Above The Law
JANUARY 29, 2025
In 2020, the Arizona Supreme Court established its Alternative Business Structure (ABS) program which allows nonlawyers to have an economic interest or decision making authority in a law firm. It is unlikely they will expand into new practice areas such as immigration, family law, criminal defense, debt collection, and eviction matters.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Daniel Kim, Tyler Li, Drew Meetze and Christine Yang are law students at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. This tort law case was particularly notable for being granted leave despite no change in damages being requested by either the plaintiff or defendant. They filed this joint dispatch for JURIST from Ottawa.
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Law 360
APRIL 21, 2025
Brian Kemp put the finishing touches on the state's first civil justice overhaul in two decades Monday, signing into law a pair of Republican-backed tort reform bills designed to tamp down plaintiffs' verdicts and impose new restrictions on third-party litigation funding. Georgia Gov.
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Depending on your point of view, there’s either lots new or “not so much” new with law firm ownership. In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. New Developments in Law Firm Ownership. Australia and the United Kingdom already permit outside ownership of law firms. The post What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?
JURIST
JUNE 20, 2021
The US Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a ruling that allowed several individuals to sue food corporations Nestlé USA and Cargill over child slavery claims, limiting corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. The unnamed plaintiffs brought their cases forward under the Alien Tort Statute. In Jesner v.
HowAppealing
MAY 27, 2021
“Guido Calabresi Lauded at His Final Torts Class”: Yale Law School has published this report.
Law 360
MARCH 24, 2023
Ron DeSantis on Friday signed into law a sweeping tort reform bill that he said will decrease frivolous lawsuits, change the state from a "judicial hellhole," and attract more investment in the state. Florida Gov.
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