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Law Firm with one lawyer and hundreds of legal experts who haven't passed the bar
A Lawyer may hire paralegals, clerks, secretaries, and other assistants. The lawyer may hire as many as s/he pleases, and assign them whatever tasks s/he chooses.
However, some kinds of documents may ...
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How do you check the legality of a new business model?
Hire a lawyer, who is licensed and trained in law and who is obligated to be honest with you and advocate for your interests, and get him/her to review your business plan. He/she will point out real ...
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Why are there two case numbers for United States v. Trump?
Court Listener explained by email:
This is unfortunately a bug we have in multi-defendant criminal cases. Sorry!
See a more technical description of the problem here: https://github.com/...
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Arizona laws regarding ownership of ground glassware for chemistry usage
Arizona does not license chemists, though they do license pharmacists. There is a law against possession of drug paraphernalia, violation of which is a felony. The law also says
In determining ...
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How to discover/be aware of changes in law that might affect oneself personally?
The short answer is that, as a practical matter, you can't be aware of every change in the law that could conceivably affect you. Even lawyers don't have enough time to keep up with every change in ...
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Can messages in messaging application be used as evidence to accuse someone?
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Messaging (and other online communication) are fixed media.
A face-to-face conversation, or a telephone call, does not exist at all - except in the mental recollections of the ...
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Correlation between wealth and win rate
It is difficult to quantify in a useful way.
Part of the issue is that calling the courts "dispute resolution forums" is misleading. Courts are "rights enforcement forums." They ...
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Law Firm with one lawyer and hundreds of legal experts who haven't passed the bar
Some kinds of practices are bottom heavy, with lots of administrative and paralegal staff relative to attorney employees.
Examples including consumer side bankruptcy firms that represent debtors, ...
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Why are there two case numbers for United States v. Trump?
The extra number is typically added to the end of a case number when there are multiple defendants.
Trump's case number ends with -1 because he is the first named defendant. I suspect you'd be able to ...
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Is there "evidence-based" practice in law?
The primary field of research where the kind of studies you are thinking about are done is often called "empirical legal research."
There is a fairly rich literature, that a substantial ...
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How do you check the legality of a new business model?
When you have a problem with your car, you take it to a person who is trained to fix cars and knows about them. You pay money for their time and expertise.
This is more or less the same situation- you ...
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How can I gather data from past cases in the US? Is it possible?
Let's say I wanted to generate a report on the trends in outcomes of
civil cases. Is there anywhere I could download any kind of data
related to it? The parties involved, maybe information about the ...
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How to discover/be aware of changes in law that might affect oneself personally?
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In Canada, notices of proposed regulations, the official regulations and orders, as well as Acts of Parliament are published weekly (with extra additions as needed) in the Canada Gazette.
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Is the ORGVSM f*ck tee legal?
"Commercial disparagement" is about statements that a person makes, knowing that they are false. The words on the T-shirt are neither true nor false. The T-shirt might be illegal in ...
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Why there isn't any law resulting from the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019?
The bill was never passed.
According to the list of all actions on Congress.gov, the bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce in April 2019. Evidently, that ...
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How can I gather data from past cases in the US? Is it possible?
While there may be others, the only nationwide court case aggregator that I am aware of is:
Lexis/Nexis
It's not a free service but if you need this information presumably you have a paying customer ...
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How do I interpret a court judgement? What does it mean?
Congratulations, intrepid legal enthusiast or learner!
What you'll need
A legal dictionary, especially if you're just getting started.
If you don't own one, you can try Black's Law Dictionary
A ...
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Do lawyers actually use big bookshelves filled with texts?
Why do attorneys have these?
Originally to use as references, although some kinds of books (e.g. case law reporters, Shepard's citations, Martindale Hubble directories, and serial analysis of case ...
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Motion or Demand for Discovery (NY) (Family Law)
To paraphrase the Princess Bride: "I don't think those words mean what you think they do".
The "truther-activist", "sovereign citizen", and "Citizen vs. Human Being" concepts will only hurt you. It ...
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Can a country ban oversea biotechnology research out of an endemic plant that is only found in its territory?
A government, in this case the Brazilian government, cannot effectively control what people, particularly people who are not its citizens, do in other countries. If people are able to obtain and ship ...
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During your trial, the Supreme Court of the US agrees to hear an appeal of a relevant precedent case. What is the law that you are presumed to know?
Why does someone need to know?
Supreme Court decisions are effective to all cases at trial or on direct appeal when decided, so long as the issue it resolves are raised in the trial court.
Judges ...
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How to discover/be aware of changes in law that might affect oneself personally?
united-states
The first requirement is to know what jurisdiction you "are" in. That would obviously include country and state, but you also have to consider county and municipality, since ...
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How to decode a citation to a case reporter
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The most comprehensive source of reporter abbreviation in the commonwealth and United States is found in the Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations, which should be ...
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How to verify a US based company?
As was mentioned in a comment, in the United States, businesses are generally registered at the state level. The information collected, and the extent to which or manner in which the public has access ...
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How can one validate an assertion that "X" is not legal?
Finding Certainty
There is only one way for certain:
Do the supposedly unlawful thing
Get sued (civil) or prosecuted (criminal)
Go to court - if you win it wan't illegal
If you lose, appeal to the ...
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Is email verification for account creation in violation of GDPR?
When someone registers at your website, they enter a contract with you. You need an email address, because you need to be able to contact them (at least for the password recovery). You probably want ...
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Correlation between wealth and win rate
The most on-point article I know of is Albert Yoon's The Importance of Litigant Wealth:
While proponents of tort reform have argued that the current legal system makes wealthy individuals vulnerable ...
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