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On February 26, 2022, at 10:00 AM Central, Center for Advanced Legal Studies will hold its 69th Commencement Ceremony for graduates of its paralegal programs. Sepi has over 20 years of legal and administrative experience with a current focus primarily on personal injury law and related torts.
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The author has kindly shared the following summary with us: The book analyses the basic principles of the EU and US international civil procedure in contract and tort law. The whole book is available open access under this link.
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The Commission stated: Robodebt was a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal, and it made many people feel like criminals. It was a costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms The report stated, “elements of the tort of misfeasance in public office appear to exist.”
That means they use 2-dollar words, legal terms of art and lots of Latin. But, when trying to craft content for legal consumers, attorneys should take a different approach. Your potential clients have no idea what a tort is, won’t appreciate a turn of phrase originating with Cicero and prefer fewer syllables.
Where plaintiff had filed complaints with the Board of Professional Responsibility (BPR) complaining of the same allegations that allegedly supported her legal malpractice claim, and those BPR complaints were filed more than one year before the legal malpractice suit was filed, summary judgment based on the statute of limitations was affirmed.
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