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Choosing A Process Server

If you need to serve legal papers on someone, whether it's a summons, complaint, or subpoena, you'll need to use a process server. A process server is someone who delivers legal documents to the person they're intended for. You can't just use anyone ...

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How to Talk to the Police if Your Suspected of a Crime

How to Talk to the Police if Your Suspected of a Crime by: Susan Chana Lask, Esq. 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 cloth...

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Qualified Personal Residence Trust (QPRT) reeserves the use of a residence

A Qualified Personal Residence Trust (QPRT) is a trust in which the person establishing the trust, call the Grantor, reserves the use of a residence (either the Grantor¡¯s primary residence or a seasonal residence) for a specified term of years. In...

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Antidepressant Drugs Causing Severe Birth Injuries

Drugs and other medical products sometimes suffer from several defects, including design, manufacturing, problems with the testing of the drug or device, inadequate warnings or instructions for use, problem with the doctor's prescription or inco...

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Employers - How to Protect Your Employees from Hearing Damage

Loss of hearing is one of the largest occupational hazards suffered by employees. The Control of Noise at Work Regulations (2005) sought to reduce the risk of employees suffering damage to their hearing by providing directions regarding managing nois...

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Dishonest Litigants and Tainted Evidence

One of the consequences of the UK adversarial legal system is that parties are expected and encouraged to pursue their case as forcefully as is possible. There can be occasions however when either a claimant or defendant will overstep the boundary an...

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How Pre-Settlement Lawsuit Funding Works

How Pre-Settlement Lawsuit Funding Works by: Afra AmirSanjari An injured person contacts a company that offers pre-settlement lawsuit funding, sometimes at the suggestion of an attorney. The finance company contacts the lawyer who is handling th...

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Timeline of Merck's failure to act on removing Vioxx from the market

Based on an article by THE NEW YORK TIMES, by Alex Berenson, Gardiner Harris, Barry Meier and Andrew Pollack, "In May 2000, executives at Merck, the pharmaceutical giant under siege for its handling of the multibillion-dollar drug Vioxx, made a fatef...

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Reasons You May Need To HIre A Criminal Defense Attorney If You Are In Trouble

Are you facing criminal troubles and you don't know how to handle this situation on your own? Then you need to understand the many reasons why it is smart to hire a criminal defense attorney for help. Knowing these reasons will let you understa...

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Multiple Social Security Beneficiaries

Social Security is a federal program that provides retirement and disability benefits to individuals who have earned enough credits through working. However, it’s not just individuals who can be beneficiaries of Social Security. In some cases, mult...

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