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Over the past few years, the use of extranets and intranets by law firms to share critical documents with co-workers, clients and co-counsel has been firmly established.

One area in which an extranet is particularly useful is in litigation, where a large number of parties require a massive...

• Date Added: 6/30/2006
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As more and more companies are seeking to distinguish their products and services in the marketplace by registering their names, slogans or designs as trade-marks, many companies which do not retain a Canadian lawyer or trade-mark agent often make fundamental mistakes. Among the most common...

• Date Added: 7/2/2008
• Views: 215

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Personal injury cases are brought about by physical injury or mental anguish caused by actions or negligence of another party.

Personal Injury cases can include Auto Accidents, Defamation of Character, Product Defects and Medical Malpractice to name just a few. In order to be sure if...

• Date Added: 7/19/2005
• Views: 751

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Nobody wants to be a criminal. Everyone knows it better that being a criminal will disturb one's personal life. A person is terminated from the job. The society will start looking at him with questionable eyes. US laws against crime are very strict. The punishment of any type of crime is very...

• Date Added: 6/25/2008
• Views: 239

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Today drug offenses are very common in United States. Drugs are being marketed in US with or without the approval of FDA. Common drugs which are marketed are cocaine, marijuana, Oxycodone, Roxycodone, and MDMA. Of all these MDMA is most commonly used drug and is supposed to be very strong. Drugs...

• Date Added: 6/25/2008
• Views: 231

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For most people understanding and filing claims can be frustrating and confusing, mainly because there not something we usually have to deal with in our day to day lives unless we are directly involved with a mishap like an auto accident or a job injury. While we may have heard about compensation...

• Date Added: 11/10/2006
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Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that affects the sac lining the chest (the pleura), the lining around the heart (the pericardium), or the lining of the abdominal cavity (the peritoneum). Studies have shown that people, who suffer from the disease mesothelioma, were exposed to an abundance of...

• Date Added: 8/24/2005
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The asbestos industry caused a great amount of pain to many families by ignoring the startling evidence that asbestos exposure is harmful and often deadly. All of the suffering could have been avoided because the asbestos companies knew a lot more than they informed the public about. The companies...

• Date Added: 11/5/2005
• Views: 699

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Mesothelioma, the deadly disease which has topped news headlines for the last decade, is contracted through exposure to airborne fibers of asbestos. Sadly, the under-regulation of asbestos usage in years past, and arguably still today, exposed millions to airborne fibers and as a result thousands...

• Date Added: 1/8/2006
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Food product labeling has significant implications for consumer protection and product promotion. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) require food product labels on almost all packaged foods that includes information like nutritional values,...

• Date Added: 11/24/2006
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Medical technology companies are making medical tools that help in improving health of millions of people across the globe. With a plethora of medical industries striving to make a name for themselves in this competitive marketplace, the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is placing a great...

• Date Added: 12/4/2006
• Views: 511

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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) helps safeguard the ability of the United States Food and Drug Administration to ensure food safety and quality within North America. NAFTA is an agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico that took effect on...

• Date Added: 3/13/2007
• Views: 468

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The US Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act 2002 (the Bioterrorism Act) requires domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States to receive a FDA registration number by December 12,...

• Date Added: 2/12/2007
• Views: 441

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Identity theft is a growing problem in the United States, occurring in small towns and cities alike. Identity theft, as defined by the federal government, refers to the use of another person's identity or identification to commit crime. Most often, the identity thief uses a person's identity to...

• Date Added: 2/2/2006
• Views: 713

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DUI, a drunk driving website that counsels those arrested driving under the influence (DUI) and driving while intoxicated (DWI), earlier conducted a survey about what would make them stop. The survey, which has 353 hardcore drunk drivers as respondents, reflects alarming results.

The survey...

• Date Added: 12/21/2006
• Views: 506

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So what is the big deal about sticking some pictures on a T-shirt, pair of skis, or a packet of cigarettes? Why do we hear about Maori up in arms because of the use of a few designs? What is the big deal? –These are questions I get often from friends and colleagues so I thought I would answer as...

• Date Added: 2/11/2007
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The corporate structure of your business will provide shelter for your personal assets. There are several events that will cause a judge to disregard the corporate entity or "pierce the corporate veil." There are several reasons why the corporate veil may be pierced. There are also several easy...

• Date Added: 11/12/2005
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The hallmark credentials that you want to see when hiring a San Diego criminal defense lawyer on a serious felony charge are pretty much the same for a criminal defense lawyer anywhere.  When you are charged with a serious felony in a state court system where your exposure is many years in prison...

• Date Added: 4/4/2006
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Forcible rape and attempted forcible rape between people who know each other, either casually or well, make up a sizeable percentage of the false accusations in the criminal justice system.  The cry of rape or abuse is a familiar cry when a relationship goes sour or when a woman has second...

• Date Added: 5/8/2006
• Views: 519

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Reducing murder to manslaughter is a task that presents itself in many murder cases.  Depending on your state or jurisdiction you may be able to reduce murder to manslaughter by eliminating the element of "malice."   Classically, this is where the defendant acts by being provoked into a sudden...

• Date Added: 5/8/2006
• Views: 446