4 Tips to Help You Find a Reputable Mesothelioma Lawyer
This article gives tips on finding a reputable mesothelioma lawyer.
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After the Revocable Living Trust is SignedÂ… Now What?
You've gone through the trouble of creating an estate plan that includes a revocable living trust. Now what do you need to do?
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Arbitration - Protect Yourself
Arbitration is a process that seeks to resolve disputes without formal legal action. A formal law suit, which can hold a company accountable, is replaced with a costly private justice system where high costs and abuse of the law have been documented.
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Arraignment in New York Criminal Courts
The “arraignment” process involves: Being brought before a Judge in the courtroom Receiving the “ criminal complaint” with the crimes charged and the factual basis to each charge The District Att...
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Assault & Battery – Criminal Law
Each year there are over 800,000 assaults reported to local law enforcement agencies.
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Class Action Lawsuits and Unethical Settlements
A trend has now developed in which the plaintiff class counsel compete with one another to offer the best and most sweeping settlement terms to defendants, and these settlements generally contain a global release of all claims in other fora. Once these global releases are approved and entered as part of a class action judgment, the releases effectively extinguish or bar related actions by class members in any other states and jurisdictions. An attorney who wishes to conduct his class action practice in a diligent and ethical manner can be harmed by the unethical behavior of some class counsel who use claims in other fora as a bargaining chip to maximize the settlement terms for their own fee award.
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Connecticut Jury Awards and Out-of-Court Settlements: Examples of Damages Awards
This article provides representative samples of jury awards or other damages awarded to settle law cases filed in federal and state courts in Connecticut. These damage awards may be useful to attorneys and injured parties to calculate what comparable claims might yield in their state.
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Cost-Crunching Counsel: Nine Keys to Controlling Costs and Improving Legal Services for Your Busines
Attorneys are all about money, right?
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Criminal Law Procedure
In a criminal case, the government generally brings charges in one of two ways: either by accusing a suspect directly in a "bill of information" or other similar document, or by bringing evidence before a grand jury to allow that body to determine whether the case should proceed. If there is, then the defendant is indicted.
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Data Protection: New Interpretation of the Data Protection Act
Data Protection is an area of law that impacts on all businesses that process personal data of individuals. Every individual has a right to request the data that an organisations holds about him or her and this article deals with what information an organisation should disclose to an individual when it receives such a request.
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How to Talk to the Police if Your Suspected of a Crime
If you're suspected of a crime, the police can come to your house or work or find you on the street to talk to you. Usually it will be a detective in plain clothes in an unmarked car who will want to...
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Innocence: Presumed?
The presumption of innocence is one of the central, and most cherished, of common law principles. In Canada §11(d) of the Charter guarantees an accused due process.
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Intellectual Property Protection: Legal Right Protection
Intellectual property, although intangible, is still ownable and your intellectual property rights should be protected. Modern business, especially since the rise of the internet has seen a rise in the creation of intellectual property. However the internet makes it even easier for someone to steal your ideas and work. An intellectual property lawyer who is trained to help reclaim patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret rights can help protect your intellectual property.
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Intellectual Property: Design - Spare Parts
In Dyson Ltd v Qualtex [2004], Dyson brought proceedings against the defendant, Qualtex, a manufacturer of vacuum cleaner spare parts, alleging infringement of its unregistered design rights in various spare parts comprising different products. Unregistered design rights are unregistrable intellectual property rights that arise automatically by the operation of law and protect the owners of original designs from, amongst other things, unauthorised copying. The existence of such rights is subject to certain exceptions.
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Intellectual Property:Trade Mark Infringement - Pharmaceutical Product - Exhaustion of Rights
In the case of Bolton Pharmaceutical Co 100 Limited -v- Swinghope Limited and Others [2005], the claimant was the new owner of a trade mark registered in respect of a pharmaceutical product which was commonly used to treat hypertension. It acquired the product from AZ, another pharmaceutical company, in September 2004, who had previously sold its trade mark rights to a Spanish company.
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Joint Copyright Issues – When You Work With Someone Else
In general, when the shutter on a camera is tripped to make a photo, the photographer who pressed the button owns the copyright. But photographers often work with others when making their photographs, such as the art director, stylist, assistant or even the Photoshop editor. So does that person get to share with the photographer the copyright of the photograph? Be careful, or you may have to share the rights to that photo!
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Patent Pending: What Does It Mean?
Many companies begin manufacturing and selling their new product (a.k.a. their invention) to the marketplace before the patent is even officially granted. They use the term “patent pending” to indicate that the product is proprietary and a patent is (just like the term states), pending.
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Railroad Accident Lawyer Says: Buckle Your Seatbelts
Massive train crashes seem the dramatic stuff of movies and novels, billowing steam engines destined for disaster, fixed irreversibly on track to collide. Indeed, in the 19th century train companies used head-on train collisions as a publicity stunt. The Crush Crash in Waco, Texas drew so many observers that Waco became, for one night, the second largest city in the state. Perhaps modern day railroads do not encounter anything so catastrophic as the rerouted steam locomotive that caused a mountain to collapse in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, but train crashes are still a major problem in the United States. Train crashes injure more than 500 people every year.
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Reasons for Estate Planning
Do you know what happens if you die without a will? The courts will decide who will raise your children, manage your assets, inherit your possessions, and administer your estate.
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Service by Substitution in California
Section 415.20 (b) of the California Civil Code Of Procedure States: If a copy of the summons and complaint cannot with reasonable diligence be personally delivered to the person to be served, as specified in Section 416.60, 416.70, 416.80, or 416.90, a summons may be served by leaving a copy of the summons and complaint at the person's dwelling house, usual place of abode, usual place of business, or usual mailing address other than a United States Postal Service post office box...
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Sources Of Income Taxable Under Sale Tax
The Sources of e-businesses taxation of online buying and selling falling under Sale Tax Act 1990 and other are services which are made subject to imposition to central excise duties in Pakistan.
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Texas Family Law – Child Support
Texas is very precise on the guidelines of family law when it comes to child support.
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Virginia Workers Compensation: Why Do You Need to Consult a Lawyer?
When you are injured on the job, it may be necessary to consult an experienced workers compensation lawyer to protect you rights.
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What is a Mobile Notary Public?
A mobile notary public is, in essence, a notary willing to travel to the location of the client, in order to fulfill his or her duties. These typically entail the witnessing of sensitive documents, overseeing their signing, identifying participants and administering oaths when necessary.
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Whistle Blowing techniques 101
Have you ever thought of being a whistle blower? Sure you have, like most human beings who are lazy, lethargic and sinful you see things others have achieved and you are envious of them. Do not worry this is part of our pathetic human innate genetics. Do not worry that you have never achieved anything, never strived to be the best at everything you do or even made a dent in the world to make it a better place, because now you can be a whistle blower instead.
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