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Starting a Paralegal Career Without a Paralegal Certificate

Paralegal Bootcamp

Jessie is a board certified trial paralegal in Texas. She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. I decided I wanted to get a paralegal certificate through a program that the University of North Texas offered. In this blog, I’m interviewing Jessie Foss.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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Maine man arrested with drugs in his backpack asks court to untangle Fourth Amendment knot

SCOTUSBlog

Texas 24-557 Issue : Whether a trial court abridges a defendants Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defendants testimony during an overnight recess. courts to adjudicate foreign environmental tort claims. Villarreal v. Webb Company v. Su 24-626 Issue : Whether the U.S.

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Spooky Torts: Tykes and Trial Lawyers Gather for All Hallow’s Eve

JonathanTurley

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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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

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). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. She also threatened another woman with a carving knife.

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