Above The Law
JANUARY 29, 2025
Around that time, courts in some states, including California and Utah, set up task forces to study amending their professional ethics rules to address the access to justice problem. The report claims that this is partially attributable due to the existing ethics rules. It’s been five years since Arizona started its ABS program.
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Utah is in the early stages of a seven-year “regulatory sandbox” pilot program to conduct its own experiment with alternative business structures. 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.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 16, 2024
a tort claim), the maximum amount of damages recoverable as compensatory damages is per person and not per occurrence. Utah , Illinois and Colorado also put in place fees for permits prior to the commencement of sequestration activities, and for the operation of sequestration itself. States have proposed funds as well for fees levied.
LawSites
APRIL 27, 2022
Last week, Filevine , the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round. Before starting Filevine, Anderson was a founding partner at a western-states law firm focused on personal injury, mass torts and employment class-actions.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 31, 2023
In teaching torts, I begin my discussion of the intentional infliction of emotional distress by having students write in their notes “not everything is the infliction of emotional distress.” Keisel brought an array of tort claims that have now been correctly rejected by the courts.
LawSites
AUGUST 9, 2022
Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers. As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The problem for the court was trying to draw a line when coverage and commentary becomes defamation on such subjects. The chilling effect on free speech can be immense.
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