If you are injured by someone else and plan to file a personal injury case, it will likely involve negligence in some way. As an accident victim, itâs important to understand what negligence is. Negligence refers to the concept that the person who caused the accident you were in owed …
Minnesota is considered a no-fault insurance state. This means that if you are injured in a car accident, you receive coverage for medical costs up to your insurance policy limits without having to file a lawsuit or prove that someone else was to blame. Due to how no-fault insurance states …
Minnesota is considered a no-fault insurance state. This means that if you are injured in a car accident, you receive coverage for medical costs up to your insurance policy limits without having to file a lawsuit or prove that someone else was to blame. Due to how no-fault insurance states …
Advances in prosthetic limbs have given amputees a chance at resuming a higher quality of life. However, some insurers have denied coverage for prosthetics for bad faith reasons. Losing a limb can be a devastating experience. However, modern medicine has advanced to the point where amputees can recover much of
Advances in prosthetic limbs have given amputees a chance at resuming a higher quality of life. However, some insurers have denied coverage for prosthetics for bad faith reasons. Losing a limb can be a devastating experience. However, modern medicine has advanced to the point where amputees can recover much of …
Q. In a profession with a higher incidence of mental illness and addiction than society at large, are we doing enough to care for our colleagues? A. Like lawyers themselves, our profession places a low priority on wellness …
Q. If I don’t take retainers, I won’t need a trust account at all. Can’t I avoid this whole problem by billing for my work after it’s completed? A. You canâif you wish to trade one problem for a more …
Q. I read that Maryland’s Bar Counsel tried to deprive accused lawyers of an equal right to discovery in disciplinary cases. Whatever happened to fundamental fairness? A. “Fundamental fairness” is a work in progress â progress that may only be achieved through vigilance in asserting the …
There are âthe known unknowns and the unknown unknownsâ which is how former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld described some things we know that we donât know, and other things that we donât know that we donât know. In the general public, there are people who enjoy the challenge of learning new things, and others whose brains resist having to do the mental work of learning. It might be compared to those who engage in physical exercise, and those who are couch potatoes. Jurors who do not relish the work of learning will resort to so-called âcommon senseâ which Einstein characterized as ânothing more than a deposit of prejudices.â Prejudice, in this sense, is to resort to that which is believed to be true, rather than arriving at the truth after thoughtful analysis. In other words, to pre-judge. These jurors do not know what they donât know, and are typically not inclined to change their pre-judgments, even when skilled trial lawyers are trying mightily to educate them.
Law has always been my dream job. I am one of those people who knew what she wanted to do since super early …
My story stems from the mean streets of NYC, growing up in the height of the crack era epidemic (1980âs). The only way out …
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