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Summary Of Greenberg Traurig, Llp V. Frias Holding Company, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 67, Tom Stewart
Summary Of Greenberg Traurig, Llp V. Frias Holding Company, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 67, Tom Stewart
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
The Court adopted an exception to the common law litigation privilege for legal malpractice and professional negligence actions. A client can pursue malpractice and professional negligence actions against an attorney, and support those actions with communications made in the course of litigation.
Summary Of Imperial Credit V. Eighth Judicial District Court, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 59, Danielle Barraza
Summary Of Imperial Credit V. Eighth Judicial District Court, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 59, Danielle Barraza
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
The Court determined whether a district court may deny a motion to associate out-of-state counsel who satisfy all of requirements of Nevada Supreme Court Rule 42.
Writing (And Reading) Appellate Briefs In The Digital Age, Mary Beth Beazley
Writing (And Reading) Appellate Briefs In The Digital Age, Mary Beth Beazley
Scholarly Works
In this essay, Professor Beazley briefly reviews a slice of the voluminous research about how human beings read digital as opposed to paper text. In particular, she discusses studies of knowledge workers (defined to include those who use or generate knowledge in their work)4 and those who engage in active reading (defined as a reading process that includes nonsequential reading, searching a text, comparing texts, annotating, bookmarking, and the like).She concludes by making suggestions for legal readers, legal writers, courts, and database providers as to how best to accommodate the process of digital reading.
Student, Esquire?: The Practice Of Law In The Collaborative Classroom, Nantiya Ruan
Student, Esquire?: The Practice Of Law In The Collaborative Classroom, Nantiya Ruan
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Law faculty and non-profit lawyers are working together in a variety of partnerships to offer students exposure to "real life" clients in the first year of law school, as well as in advanced courses in substantive areas. Teachers engaged in this client-centered advocacy through experiential frameworks have broken out of their isolated silos in the law school (e.g., legal writing, clinical, externship, and doctrinal) and begun to work together. To help students develop a sense of professional identity, cultivate professional values, and tap into key intrinsic motivations for lawyering, such as serving the public good, collaborative classrooms have an important …