WA Bar News

MARCH 13, 2025

Heres an example of an effective use of selective quotations in a criminal defendants appellant brief: The primary and most important component of the Confrontation Clause is the right to conduct a meaningful cross-examination of adverse witnesses. Darden , 145 Wn.2d 2d 612, 620, 41 P.3d 3d 1189 (2002). Alaska , 415 U.S. 308, 316, 94 S.

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Destination Articles Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Handle Notarization and Witnesses Although not always required, notarizing the agreement and having witnesses during the signing can help demonstrate that all legal formalities are respected. Law practice is dynamic, with frequent updates to regulations and best practices.

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Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

The plaintiff had deleted his Facebook account resulting in lost evidence critical to the case. Junior State of America Foundation , is a civil litigation matter involving the intentional destruction (spoliation) of social media evidence.

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WA Bar News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

12 Case law both within and outside the disciplinary realm recognizes that materiality is inherently contextual. The facts involved need not be evidentiary facts in the sense that the lawyer would qualify as a witness in the proceeding concerned under ER 602. 3d 333 (2007) (witness); In re Jensen, 192 Wn.2d 3d 311 (2002).

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

This Intel can help law firms identify their star clients, those at risk of moving on, and steps to enhance client satisfaction and loyalty. Streamlining legal research, AI can fast track legal research, quickly trawling through tons of legal texts to unearth relevant case law statutes and regulations, a real time and Resource Saver.

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Practice Panther

MAY 20, 2024

Common Billable Tasks Client Meetings : Time spent in meetings (in-person, on the phone, or via video conference) discussing case progress, strategies, or providing legal advice. Legal Research and Analysi s: Hours spent researching case law, statutes, and other legal precedents relevant to a client’s case.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

So if a witness was like, Well, yesterday was walking down the street, and then you know, I saw something happen. Jacqueline Schafer 16:53 We, for example, one of the things that we currently do is we not only bring in your factual sources, but anytime you cite to a case or a statute, or regulation, we automatically display that.

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MyCase

AUGUST 7, 2023

Basic Legal Research and Writing Legal assistants with the right education or experience may be asked to assist with researching and analyzing case law, statutes, or other legal information on a lawyer’s behalf. Additionally, they can assist with drafting legal briefs, contracts, letters, and other legal documents.

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Destination Articles Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Cite statutes, case law, and respected commentaries to strengthen your arguments. Regularly update the will or trust to reflect any changes in circumstances or the law. Each state has different requirements for wills to be considered valid, such as age and mental capacity requirements and the need for witnesses.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 9, 2025

This step was intended to aid the police in ruling out any devices flagged by the Anonymized List so that the identity of obvious non-witnesses and non-participants would not be revealed. These two steps sought temporally and spatially limited location history data consistent with existing case law regarding cell phone location information.

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Legal Writing Launch

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Clarifying Quoted Material: Legal documents often quote statutes, case law, and other authoritative texts. Example: The witness testified, He [the defendant] was at the scene of the crime. Example for Adding Context: She [the witness] confirmed the timeline. Brackets correct a misspelled word in the original text.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

And then Is it a fact witness? Or is it an expert witness? Corporate witness? Is it a fact witness? Is it an expert witness? Is it a 36, corporate witness? Or am I defending the deposition? Because that’s going to be our immediately observing the deposition? Those are three different cost points.

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E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 1, 2024

In footnote 10, the State wrote: “Eleven [unreported] cases were affirmed based on pictorial testimony.” The State added: “The Appellate Court affirmed eighteen [unreported] cases where a video was authenticated through the silent witness method.” It then cited them. It also cited them. Lisy Corp. McCormick & Co.,

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