Posts tagged with: "legal"
Results 201 - 220 of 231,372
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
17 May 2013, 7:02 am
Various journalists are claiming they have seen a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.
This led to the most darling legal threat ever from a lawyer named Dennis Morris — who has represented Ford for some time — to Gawker:
Update: We've received an email from Dennis Morris, a gentleman with a hotmail.com email address purporting to be Ford's attorney. Here is the message. We haven't corrected its formatting.
Greetings;I am a lawyer,and have been contacted by Mayor Ford's… [read post]
17 May 2013, 6:40 am
“I consider you and [Jefferson] as the North and South Poles of the American Revolution. Some talked, some rewrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all.”
—Benjamin Rush to John Adams, February 17, 1812
Every law student has a responsibly to enhance the American Conversation—the eternal dialogue that is the American experiment. While it would be conceited and with reproach that I suggest we think like Messrs. Adams and… [read post]
17 May 2013, 6:11 am
In a paperless practice, screen size is critical. Don’t skimp on the screen real estate. You have two choices: jumbo monitors or multi-monitor setups. I’ve opted for the jumbo monitor. Here’s why:
Multi-monitors are great for segregating programs to different screens. They look very cool. But if you are reading this, you are an attorney, not a day-trader. You will spend the majority of your time at your computer doing two things: reading and writing. Most of what you do falls in… [read post]
17 May 2013, 6:00 am
The American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys, a premier membership organization providing legal education and business support for attorneys nationwide, celebrates 20 years of revolutionizing the practice of law. The Academy’s focus is to provide its members with the support they need to offer cutting-edge legal solutions while making the estate planning process a relaxed, enjoyable, and positive experience for their clients.
The Academy was co-founded in 1993, by nationally respected… [read post]
17 May 2013, 4:00 am
One of the conferences I go to for a quick and painless technology update is Computers in Libraries (CIL) held in Washington, DC in the spring. I first came to it in 2000 when a friend of mine loaned me her press pass for the last day of the conference. At one of those sessions I was pleasantly surprised to learn about virtual reference service at Northwestern University Library, only a few miles from where I was working at the time in Chicago. I was hooked and have been to almost every CIL since… [read post]
17 May 2013, 3:29 am
SpicyIP is happy to bring to our readers news of a wonderful set of search and analytics tool by Worldwide Intellectual Property Service (WIPS) for those involved in the IP field. Please see as below:WIPS (Worldwide Intellectual Property Service) – IPR Solution experts Description:WIPS, as a leader in the intellectual property fields, is endeavoring to provide various solutions for which clients may have difficulty in IP related issues.WIPS is Korea’s first company to offer online… [read post]
17 May 2013, 2:32 am
The 2010 RESPA Final Rule was designed to simplify HUD form processing as well as to ensure timely disclosure of full settlement costs. Simple is a relative term and real estate professionals should not be trying to complete the “simpler” HUD 1 settlement sheet by hand. Today’s real estate regulations are too strict to trust to fallible humans.
Inexpensive RESPA software protects real estate professionals and their clients by facilitating RESPA compliance. Agents can use the… [read post]
17 May 2013, 2:06 am
Courts are ready to consider dismissal of legal malpractice cases, especially when the motion for dismissal is predicated on the "but for" portion of the legal malpractice formula. Put another way, even on thinly produced evidence, and before there is any discovery, courts are willing and able to determine whether plaintiff could have succeeded in the underlying case, even though the defendant attorney has not been deposed, and has not been required to exchange documents.
Warshaw… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:46 am
“One of the most contentious proposals in the Consultation Paper on the transforming legal aid is the removal of client choice in criminal cases. Under the proposals contracts for the provision of legal aid will be awarded to a limited number of firms in an area. The areas are similar to the existing CPS areas. The Green Paper anticipates that there will be four or five such providers in each area. Thus the county of Kent, for example, will have four or five providers in an area currently… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:28 am
Minister for Natural Resources Alfredo Pires
ETLJB
17 May 2013 - East Timor's Minister for Natural Resources Mr. Alfredo Pires has officially launched the draft
of the country’s minerals law that...
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
[read post]
17 May 2013, 12:46 am
Photo Credit: Badly Drawn Dad via Compfight cc
The Court of Protection (COP) is a specialist court which deals with all issues relating to people who lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves. The Court is guided by the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and is duty bound to act in the best interests of the patient at all times. There are many reasons why a person may be unable to manage their own affairs, such as injury following an accident, the onset of dementia, or a mental health… [read post]
16 May 2013, 9:22 pm
Hmm, I guess they forgot the White Water Water Park E. coli Outbreak.
In June of 1998, Georgia health officials were notified that a number of children had become ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections and were hospitalized in Atlanta-area hospitals. Public health investigators interviewed victims’ families and learned that all had become ill after visiting the White Water Water Park. The Georgia Department of Health eliminated other possible sources of exposure, such as contaminated… [read post]
16 May 2013, 9:00 pm
Statement of Defense
As the defending party you have to put up a defense (Statement of Defense) and in this regard this statement should not only be clear and complete but you should also know for instance what formal defenses you should advance. With regard to the latter for instance the plea of limitation of action comes to mind. In many cases the period of limitation of action (verjaring) is five years but sometimes it is a much shorter period. The short period of limitation of six months applies… [read post]
16 May 2013, 5:11 pm
A: A central point of contention between people who think online marketing (read: social media) is worthwhile for lawyers who want to get clients and those who think it is a waste of time is this question: Is there a critical mass of good-quality clients online, and are they ready and willing to hire you if you market yourself online?
In other words, if you go all-in with online marketing, could you get the kind of business you hope for in your wildest dreams?
Let me just start this out by saying I… [read post]
16 May 2013, 4:37 pm
Helena Haapio, LL.M., of Lexpert Ltd., and Stefania Passera, M.A., of Aalto University School of Science, have posted Visual Law: What Lawyers Need to Learn from Information Designers, at VoxPopuLII.
The post gives several interesting examples of visualization of legal information, including:
Candy Chang’s Vendor Power!
Susanne Hoogwater’s Legal Visuals
Olivia Zarcate’s Imagidroit
Dr. Margaret Hagan’s Open Law Lab, and
Professor Seth Chandler’s Visualizing Legal Rules:… [read post]
16 May 2013, 2:45 pm
Today I gave a presentation which was live but also webcast for the Chicago Bar Association. Here are the slides from that talk. I’ve started just using graphics on slides so I’m not sure how useful these will be to anyone without the context, but here they are anyway!
Building & Developing a Virtual Law Practice from Stephanie Kimbro [read post]
16 May 2013, 2:15 pm
A recent Oregon Law Practice Management (OLPM) blog post on this subject is one place to begin reading about this subject, including brief discussions of the duties of public defenders and other government attorneys and private attorneys and liability issues.
(The other is a 2012 OSB CLE called “Lawyers and the Deaf Community.”)
From the OLPM blog: Are Private Lawyers Required to Bear the Cost of Communication Access?
Excerpt:“Accommodating actual or potential clients with hearing… [read post]
16 May 2013, 2:15 pm
A recent Oregon Law Practice Management (OLPM) blog post on this subject is one place to begin reading about this subject, including brief discussions of the duties of public defenders and other government attorneys and private attorneys and liability issues.
(The other is a 2012 OSB CLE called “Lawyers and the Deaf Community.”)
From the OLPM blog: Are Private Lawyers Required to Bear the Cost of Communication Access?
Excerpt:“Accommodating actual or potential clients with hearing… [read post]
16 May 2013, 1:54 pm
One of the most contentious proposals in the Consultation Paper on the transforming legal aid is the removal of client choice in criminal cases. Under the proposals contracts for the provision of legal aid will be awarded to a limited number of firms in an area. The areas are similar to the existing CPS areas. The Green Paper anticipates that there will be four or five such providers in each area. Thus the county of Kent, for example, will have four or five providers in an area… [read post]
16 May 2013, 1:40 pm
Disclosure of confidential client information on the Internet by attorney violates Rule 1.6 of the Rules of Professional Conduct – In re Skinner, 740 S.E.2d 171 (Ga. Mar. 18, 2013)
A Georgia attorney recently learned the hard way that the Internet is no place to vent about a client. The attorney (Skinner) received negative comments from a client on consumer review websites. In response, Skinner posted personal and confidential information about the client on the Internet. … [read post]