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Who is responsible when an attorney makes an error in a real estate contract?

Newport Beach California Business Litigation Law B

Real estate investments often involve complex transactions and significant financial stakes. When does a real estate investor have a legal malpractice claim? In the context of real estate, this can relate to errors in drafting contracts or a missed deadline that result in financial loss.

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

Attorney at Work

.” 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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Do You Fit Cybercriminals’ Ideal Victim Profile?

Attorney at Work

The evidence of your affluence is public record. Real estate sites give literal insight into what your home looks like and where your loved ones sleep. It could be the start of a beautiful friendship (one that ends with a law firm data breach). You’ve got money. Using your home address as your business address?

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Evidence of Bad Faith Leads Fourth Circuit to Affirm Disgorgement and Attorneys’ Fees in Trademark Case

IP Watchdog

The Fourth Circuit also affirmed an attorneys’ fees award for pervasive breaches of a previous agreement settling trademark claims between the commercial real estate firms in the case. Dewberry Group, Inc.

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What Adds Expenses to Obtaining a Divorce?

Practice of Law

This agreement should include how you want to handle any child custody issues (both when the child will spend time with each parent and who will make legal decisions for the child), child support, the division of property (like real estate, accounts, cars, and furniture), and spousal support (also known as alimony).

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What are the Different Types of Law Practice Areas and Which is Right For You?

CaseFox

Here are some of the duties of the personal injury lawyers: Help lawyers in getting compensation Collect evidence for building a strong case Investigate all the individuals that are related to the case Real Estate Law Real estate law deals with everything that is related to the property.

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Jacqueline Schafer on Writing Briefs at the Speed of AI: How ClearBrief is Transforming Legal Drafting

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

She founded ClearBrief in 2020 to leverage AI to analyze documents and suggest relevant evidence and citations to streamline drafting. And I love the, you know, all of the thought that goes into writing the brief, and synthesizing your arguments and the evidence. Like we’re I love the strategy. And he believed my client. And we won.

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