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Get the Most Important Things for Your Personal Injury Case

LegalReader

When you are embarking on a personal injury case, you’ll want to discuss with your lawyer what you’ll want to accomplish during your case.

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How Paralegals Can Avoid UPL

Paralegal Bootcamp

This happens frequently at those initial client intake meetings for personal injury paralegals. Smidt, a paralegal in Ohio, got into trouble after accepting a $1,000 payment from a client to negotiate a loan modification. For example, what exactly can be considered legal advice? Disciplinary Counsel v. Smidt (2020).

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Norfolk Southern reaches tentative $600M settlement in train derailment class action suit

JURIST

Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) announced on Tuesday that it reached a tentative settlement of $600 million in a class action lawsuit regarding the February 2023 freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio will need to approve Tuesday’s settlement before it is final.

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“Something Wicked This Way Comes.”: Halloween is Starting With a Litigious Flare

JonathanTurley

If there is a holy holiday for personal injury lawyers it is Halloween with its mix of slip-and-falls, food liability, and costume defects. This year, another woman in Ohio took a more direct approach in Toledo, Ohio. Halloween today more often summon contingency lawyers by the gross. well … oversized.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. In Berea, Ohio, the promoters of the 7 Floors of Hell haunted house at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds appreciate realism but one employee took it a bit too far. Johnson & Johnson.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. The sophomore from New Miami High School in Ohio died from a prior medical condition at the at Land of Illusion haunted house. Plaintiffs brought a personal injury action against the retailer.

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

Thanksgiving means one thing for personal injury lawyers: food poisoning. 155 Ohio App. Caponi (1969), 18 Ohio St. 2d 125, 47 Ohio Op. Caponi (1969), 18 Ohio St. 2d 125, 47 Ohio Op. Stanley (2001), 92 Ohio St.3d 3d 35, 39, 2001 Ohio 128, 748 N.E.2d Bennett, 92 Ohio St.3d

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