ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In our new report, Climate Risk in the Electricity Sector: Legal Obligations to Advance Climate Resilience Planning by Electric Utilities , we show that it is also legally required under state public utility law and tort law. This type of planning is not just good practice, however.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

Those job responsibilities can sound vague to someone who does not already work in the legal profession, so let’s take a closer look at a few key responsibilities of a litigation paralegal. Free Guide for Personal Injury Paralegals Are you ready to be a rockstar personal injury paralegal?! Assist at trial.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The feature was developed by Filevine’s Legal Futurists team, a group of data scientists, lawyers and IT professionals who operate as a sort of skunkworks within the company. Filevine’s customers include many personal injury, mass tort and insurance defense firms, as well as general mid-sized firms and corporate legal departments.

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Rocket Matter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

ChatGPT and similar adaptive Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to change the way we work forever. While these technologies can’t—and shouldn’t—replace most of the very sensitive work legal staff do for their clients, ChatGPT can save your team much-needed time to maximize billable hours.

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Blackstone Career Institute

JANUARY 5, 2024

4 Facts to Know About Becoming a Legal Nurse Consultant Are you a registered nurse (RN) who wants to have more flexibility and control over your life? Do you want to advance your career so that you can work remotely, schedule your work time, and set your personal salary requirements? Why Choose a Career as a Legal Nurse Consultant?

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Of course, this is probably why states around the country have enacted things like Tort Claims Acts which are written in favor of government entities and whose sole purpose is to limit liability and protect government employees and the departments they work for. Sounds like a racket so you gotta stay on your toes.

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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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LawSites

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Read more about Clarra in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. The product is designed to work well for any type of civil litigation firm, from personal injury to mass torts and class actions, and to be simple to use right out of the box, Caindec said.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 4, 2021

The belated conclusion of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement did not dampen the impact of the UK’s departure from the European Union on judicial co-operation in civil matters between the UK’s three legal systems and those of the 27 remaining Members of the Union.

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Blackstone Career Institute

MARCH 28, 2024

This program provides students with foundational knowledge and skills needed in the legal field. We also offer correspondence Advanced Paralegal Certificate Courses for incarcerated individuals.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

The Personal and Advertising Injury Coverage within general liability policies includes coverage for invasions of privacy. The policyholder sought coverage under a provision covering personal injury claims arising from the publication of information that violates an individual’s privacy rights.

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MyCase

AUGUST 22, 2022

A boutique law firm is a smaller legal organization that concentrates on one practice area. Litigation : This may include a range of both civil and criminal litigation cases, such as personal injury tort claims, divorce and family law cases, contract disputes, and so on. . Legal Services .

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

Let’s start with, how did you get into the legal profession? She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. This allowed me to learn more about the legal profession so that I could potentially advance and learn even more. Well, I met my husband in 1996.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The plaintiffs seek legal remedy under the Federal Tort Claims Act , which provides for compensation for personal injury, death, or property loss or damage from a negligent or wrongful act of an employee of the federal government.

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Blackstone Career Institute

JUNE 6, 2024

Enhanced Learning with Blackstone’s Advanced Paralegal Courses As the legal field evolves, continual learning becomes key to advancing in your paralegal career. immigration and nationality law, focusing on its application within various legal settings such as law firms, non-profit agencies, and corporate environments.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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Blackstone Career Institute

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The program includes 14 volumes covering a range of topics from criminal law to legal research and writing. Criminal Law Our correspondence Advanced Paralegal course in Criminal Law takes a deep dive into the criminal legal system. Students will learn to gather evidence ethically and legally as it applies to the paralegal profession.

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LawTechnologyToday

MAY 6, 2021

Over the last five decades, we have witnessed three medical malpractice crises which have each led to soaring insurance premiums, an avalanche of new legal claims, and insurers calling it quits in many of the affected states. Before the change, juries had granted six- and seven-digit personal injury awards in some medical malpractice cases.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 12, 2023

s official languages here ) adopts the restrictive theory, providing exceptions to foreign state immunity for commercial activities, territorial torts, etc. The English translation of the draft law does not make clear whether it is the tortious act, the injury, or both that must occur within the territory of China. Convention does not.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2022

In teaching torts, we often discuss the vague line between self-defense and retaliation in cases of assault and battery. That issue will now be at the heart of a criminal charge against former Broncos cornerback Brendan Langley who was charged with assault after hitting a United Airlines employee. 1) Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.2C:3-5,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 21, 2022

The Court found that the relationship relied on between the youth plaintiffs and the Minister lacked the closeness and directness that the common law demands before finding an applicant is entitled to a legal remedy against a party whose conduct has caused or may cause them harm. Background on the claim.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Article 5 further provides that a foreign state participating as a plaintiff or third party waives immunity from counterclaims arising from the same legal relationship or facts. The NPC Standing Committee also helpfully changed Article 9’s territorial tort exception to clarify when that exception applies. The Impact on China-U.S.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2021

Cross border relations is bound to generate non-contractual disputes such as personal injury cases. Article 4 of Rome II applies to general torts/delicts such as personal injury cases. 2] the English High Court was faced with the issue of applying Article 4 of Rome II to a personal injury case.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday put a bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin, on hold while it reviews a challenge to the legality of the plan, which would shield the Sackler family, the owners of the drug company, from lawsuits.

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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. Now Major has bitten another person who reportedly required medical attention. Alternatively, this could be a matter for the Federal Tort Claims Act as a personal injury occurring on federal property.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

2255, “Civil Remedy for Personal Injuries,” which provides that any person who is a victim of a violation of child pornography may recover the actual damages or liquidated damages in the amount of $150,000 per victim, and reasonable attorney’s fees. The case is brought under statutes like 18 U.S.C. In New York Times v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Of relevance here, RICO, a federal law initially passed to target organized crime, creates a private cause of action, which allows a person “injured in his business or property” by racketeering activity to recover triple damages. CBD is completely legal but THC continues in some contexts to be illegal.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2025

Douglas Horn was fired from his commercial truck driving job after he ingested a product marketed as including only CBD (cannabidiol, which is completely legal) rather than THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, which continues to be illegal in many contexts) and failed a drug test. The case now will return to the lower court.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The result is a wicked brew of negligence, product defects, intentional torts, and every other tort and crime known above the netherworld. So without further ado, here are this year’s spookiest of torts. Both Kelly and Rando sued for torts ranging from assault to intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It then concluded with respect to the Hymes/Harwayne-Gidansky suit that the Dodd-Frank language quoted above simply codified the pre-existing legal standard and held their claims preempted. But the plan treats holders of insured and uninsured asbestos personal-injury claims differently. Nelson ,…517 U.S. 26 and Oct. 26 and Oct.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America as “Ones to Watch” and has obtained multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients in personal injury, wrongful death, and crime victim cases. Mingo (MJM) is a founding member of the personal injury firm Mingo & Yankala, S.C. Relationships matter.

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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. Circuit granted the motion on May 26, 2021. Renewable Fuels Association v. 21-9518 (10th Cir. Chevron Corp.

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