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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.”

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10 Common Mistakes Defense Attorneys Make With Their Damages Strategies

Sound Jury Blog

Of course, there is truth in each of these, but the complaint we hardly ever hear is how the defense attorney made mistakes at trial that contributed to the outcome. Jurors constantly complaint about how difficult it is to determine a noneconomic award, which research has shown is the primary source of nuclear verdicts.

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Town Sanctioned for Prejudicial Breaches of Duty to Preserve in Alleged Sexual Assault Case; Court Also Addresses Use of Personal Email by Council Members

E-Discovery LLC

Further, “Plaintiff has been prejudiced by this spoliation because she has no way of knowing the contents of the emails or cross-examining the defendants about them. emphasis added]. The Court noted that the Town also took action to address related institutional shortcomings.