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4 Strategies for Preventing and Handling Frivolous Lawsuits

Lawmatics

According to the US financial Education Foundation, each year excessive tort costs add up to well over 500 billion dollars. Legal Sanctions and Penalties Defendants may pursue a counterclaim against the plaintiff, and if successful, it could result in legal sanctions and penalties for the party that filed the frivolous lawsuit.

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Alternate Pathways: Your Questions Answered

WA Bar News

The Task Force was directed to “examine current and past bar examination methods, passage rates, and alternative licensure methods, assess disproportionate impacts on examinees of color and first generation examinees, consider the need for alternatives to the current bar exam, and analyze those potential alternatives.”