The first step is to meet with an experienced probate litigation or elder law attorney to see whether court action is needed to protect an elderly loved one from unsafe decisions.
Patent law and litigation is for better or worse a big part of the business world in the U.S. So are debates over such lawsuits.
That was sheer judicial activism, says John Vail with the Center for Constitutional Litigation, a Washington law firm that frequently sues on behalf of plaintiffs it feels have been denied access to the courts.
It employs 300 people in Manila, 40 of them lawyers who help multinational law firms with litigation.
Mr Lazar is far from the only person to have served repeatedly as plaintiff in class-action shareholder litigation orchestrated by an aggressive law firm.
WorldCom alone is due to pay holders of 48 different securities: claims, backed by trading records, must be filed both with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with the private law firms handling litigation in New York.
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If tradition holds, even more patent litigation will follow--patent law has become a legal glamour job.
L. in Tampa, Florida whose practice includes white-collar crime, securities law, and financial litigation.
Arky went to law school, practiced litigation at a firm in Washington, D.
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Ribstein, an expert on financial litigation at the University of Illinois Law School.
The crossbench peer argued that deficiencies in the law result in high litigation costs and have a negative impact on families.
And unless action is taken, we can expect more arbitrary court decisions, more litigation, more defiance of the law by local officials, all of which adds to uncertainty.
Additionally, you do not have the number of frivolous law suits in patent litigation that you have in other civil litigation because it is so expensive to litigate patent infringement.
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That is without the ongoing cost of testing poop, or the fact that DNA testing often does not work, and the creation of an entirely new litigation process and resulting body of law devoted to appealing DNA-evidence based dog poop fines.
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The new law and the threat of litigation it brings probably have something to do with the out-of-control cost of directors' and officers' liability insurance.
The results provide a revealing look at the economics of this sort of litigation, where normally only the lead law firms are identified in court.
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Steven Donziger, the former journalist and Harvard Law grad who spearheaded the litigation and seems to have drawn the distaste of Judge Kaplan reportedly has stepped back from the case.
The federal law allowing arbitration instead of litigation is riddled with exceptions Congress even exempted car dealers and active-duty military personnel from parts of it and most retail transactions would be untouched.
The Chamber's in-house law firm, the National Chamber Litigation Centre (NCLC), supports the ILR's work, filing lawsuits and amicus briefs.
The Law Center accomplishes its mission through litigation, education, and related activities.
Janice Brown, founder of Brown Law Group, a San Diego law firm that specializes in employment litigation, says monitoring employees' computer activities isn't illegal.
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In 1998, Husband became embroiled in a partnership dispute with one of his law partners, which resulted in litigation that lasted over a decade.
"I thought this law was a way to use litigation to right wrongs and, if successful, to get a percentage, " says an unabashed Phillips, now 62.
"One of the things we have avoided here is the tremendous cost of litigation and the uncertainty in a court of law, " Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said.
Wallance, a partner at the law firm Kaye Scholer and former chief litigation counsel to Kidder Peabody.
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The process generated a suspiciously high percentage of diagnoses of asbestosis and related injuries, said Lester Brickman, a professor at Cardozo University School of Law who has written extensively about asbestos litigation.
"Given the experience of fen-phen, it would border on malpractice if Merck's lawyers allowed the same kind of 'litigation doctors' to provide evidence for claims, " said Lester Brickman, professor at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law and expert on mass-tort litigation.
Street View Electronic Communications Litigation as further proof that a congressional update of the law is sorely needed.
The tobacco suit law firms say the money all went toward litigation costs -- document production, travel, paralegal costs and so on.
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