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Washington’s New Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act: Explanation, Application, and Aspiration

WA Bar News

BY CHERYLL RUSSELL, JACQUELINE JESKE, AND CHRISTOPHER FOX Washington’s Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act (UFLAA) provides a framework for the use of arbitration in resolving family law disputes in Washington state. The parties may, however, waive some or all of the arbitrator qualifications and criteria.

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Westlaw Precision: Next-Generation Legal Research With a Human Touch

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.” These human editors manually reviewed and tagged the past 12 years of caselaw, published cases and certain older cases, covering eight topics (commercial law, federal civil procedure, federal discovery and evidence, federal remedies, federal class actions, employment, securities and antitrust).

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What Is Business Litigation?

Newport Beach California Business Litigation Law B

seeking relief through court action or arbitration). The process can involve negotiations, mediation, arbitration, and/or a trial before a judge or jury to determine the outcome. Real estate disputes: These involve conflicts regarding property ownership, easement disputes, profit distributions, and management of the property.

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Reckoning: The Duty to Correct Under RPC 3.3

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Some, like pleadings, are governed by specific standards of lawyer personal knowledge that, although prohibiting lawyers from knowingly offering false evidence, recognize that litigation inherently involves a clash of competing narratives. m) to include administrative hearings and arbitrations. 4 Others are more contemporary.

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After the Deluge: Law Practice & Legal Ethics in the New Administration

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

Some important legal skills, such as the analysis of precedent, the evaluation of evidence and legal drafting, are required in all legal problems. A lawyer may refuse to offer evidence, other than the testimony of a defendant in a criminal matter, that the lawyer reasonably believes is false. Comment 2 to Rule 1.1 KRPC Rule 3.3(a)