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What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?

Attorney at Work

California, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., It is a realistic prediction that we’ll live in a world where thousands of estate planning lawyers work for Fidelity, and hedge funds run the most significant plaintiff tort outfits. Why should legal services be any different? Seems Like the Status Quo.

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Walz Leads Effort to Block the “No Duty to Retreat” Rule in Acts of Self-Defense

JonathanTurley

Tim Walz has never appeared burdened by legal niceties or accuracy in pushing his agenda, including his anti-free speech policies. The controversy highlights rivaling doctrines that we often discuss in Torts. However, his recent effort to block an effort to enact a “no duty to rescue” rule for self-defense hit a new low.

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Shuttered Legal Analytics Company Gavelytics Is Acquired By Recently Launched Analytics Company Pre/Dicta

LawSites

Now, Gavelytics is rising from the ashes, in a sense, with the announcement that a relative newcomer to the legal analytics space, Pre/Dicta , has acquired the Gavelytics platform. Rabinowitz is a lawyer who practiced as an associate in Sidley LLP’s Supreme Court & Appellate and Mass Tort Litigation groups.

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US Supreme Court will consider liability shields for online platforms, seven additional new cases

JURIST

At the heart of the contest privilege the nature of the communications between the unnamed law firm and their client, in which the law firm provided legal advice and prepared tax returns (non-legal advice) for the client. Glacier brought a tort claim against the Teamsters for the loss of concrete. In Santos-Zacaria v.

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The Case for Punishing ‘Police Bystanders’

The Crime Report

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman, who is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Such laws could take several forms.

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Law Student’s Gen AI Product, Lexplug, Makes Briefing Cases A Breeze

LawSites

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. He has also developed a Chrome extension legal research assistant, Counsel Companion.

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No civil liability for sharing truthful information about matter of public concern.

Day on Torts

Plaintiffs next attempted to rely on a case from Washington to support the assertion that defendant’s distribution of the photos was outrageous. Without more, this activity cannot be deemed ‘outrageous’ in the legal sense. This case is an important read for anyone litigating a tort case involving a matter of public concern.

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