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

Attorney at Work

“Editorial excellence has long been at the heart of Westlaw,“ said Leann Blanchfield, head of Primary Law, Editorial, Thomson Reuters. “To enable more precision in search, we added more than 250 new attorney editors to mark up and classify case law in more useful ways for our customers.”

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The Law of Automobile Insurance in South Carolina: A Practitioner’s Guide

The Barrister

The ability to effectively navigate insurance law is essential. Whether one likes it or not, insurance law will be the job of many attorneys for decades to come. For those attorneys, The Law of Automobile Insurance in South Carolina is the one stop shop resource. Unfortunately, we know this is simply untrue.

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AI ‘Hallucinations’ in Court Papers Spell Trouble for Lawyers

Insurance Journal

personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan sent an urgent email this month to its more than 1,000 lawyers: Artificial intelligence can invent fake case law, and using made-up information in a court filing could get you fired. A …

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Another Approach to Drafting and Discovery of Litigation Hold Notices

E-Discovery LLC

THE HOMELAND DECISION Homeland is an insurance coverage lawsuit. Defendants filed a third-party complaint against another insurer, Ace. Defendants did so and the insurers challenged the assertion of privilege. 7, 2025), the court held that litigation hold notices were privileged. There may be a better solution.

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Drafting Transactional Documents and Avoiding Ambiguity

WA Bar News

Practical Examples Consider the following clauses: Example 1: Insurance coverage terminates for all Dependent Beneficiaries who are not residing in the domicile of the Insured and who are over the age of 21. Example 2: Acme may exercise the Option any time from February 1, 2014, to April 30, 2014.

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RPC 1.18: Duties to Prospective Clients

WA Bar News

3d 1068 (2002) (permitting negligence claim by insureds against insurer for allegedly defective legal advice by claims adjuster). For a case noting, but not resolving, the basis of legal liability of a law firm to a prospective client for allegedly deficient legal advice, see Eakin Enterprises, Inc. See Jones v.

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A digest serves as a subject index to the case law published in west reporters. For example: Looking in the United States Supreme Court Digest for cases on Insurance , Look in Vols. Each headnote is then assigned a topic and key number. Got all that? So, find the general subject you want to use and pull that book.