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5 Strategies to Strengthen Your Personal Injury Claim

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Whether you've been involved in a car accident, or had a fall at work, experiencing a personal injury can have a devastating effect on your health and well being. Accidents can and do occur when we least expect them, so should you find yourself a victim of one, it's important that you hire a persona...

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Common Defenses Argued in Criminal Cases

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Law is, as some of you may know, more than just someone being right and someone being wrong. In the middle of everything, you have facts and evidence that, ultimately, can change right into wrong and the other way around as well. This is why many areas of law, such as the one of criminal justice, lo...

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What Does an Animal Lawyer Do?

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No matter if you wish to become an animal lawyer or you wish to hire one's services, knowing the full length of their responsibilities might be of help. If you require the latter, here is what an animal lawyer should be able to do for you. Animal Lawyers – Their Overall Job Animal lawyers are tied t...

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8 Things Your Lawyer Won't Tell You

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 Your lawyer is the person that is supposed to tell you everything, right? Well, true enough. While they are still honest professionals at most, there are also some instances when the lawyer won't tell you everything. Here are the top things that your lawyer will probably keep a secret from you...

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How Do DUI Lawyers Defend a Guilty Client?

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Arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol are probably some of the most common ones. Even though people know the dangers of driving after drinking, some seem to not care, and still drive freely without thinking about the risks. That's how so many of them end up dealing with a DUI charge and...

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How to Seal Criminal Records

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According to a study carried out by the Department of Justice and an article by the Wall Street Journal, there are more than 100 million criminal records tied to more than 77 million Americans, since a person can have multiple records in multiple jurisdictions. A criminal record is a collection of d...

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What to Know When Hiring a Lawyer for a Federal Crime

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When should you hire a criminal defense lawyer? As soon as you suspect that the federal government is looking into you. The federal criminal court system is powerful, vast, and dangerous for numerous reasons. Nobody wants to be the target of a detailed-oriented federal agent, a trained officer, or a...

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Lawyer's Advice – What Should New Businesses Know About the IRS Tax?

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In their search for success, new businesses usually forget to address some of the more important things related to their activity. For example, although a business may forget online marketing, others may even forget why IRS tax matters and why you should have a lawyer available and ready to ask any ...

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DUI Police Report – What it Shows and How it Affects You

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Most of the time, a DUI attorney will only take a look at their client's police report in order to determine whether they'll be further charged, jailed, or penalized. This is because a police report can ruin one's defense case – even in situations when the one accused of DUI is innocent. As such, it...

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Here's Why Lawyers and Law Firms Need Brand Recognition

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Here's Why Lawyers and Law Firms Need Brand Recognition When searching for a lawyer or a law firm, we no longer grab our phone book, the newspaper, or attempt to find a shady lawyer's office throughout the town. Nowadays, we simply make a Google search, read some reviews, and determine if that's the...

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How Does the Pandemic Affect the Lives of Couples?

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As the social distancing and forced lockdown measures are obliging us to spend the majority, if not all of our time inside the house, couples are starting to see the effects of these implications in their love life. Whether this pandemic has found you and your significant other under the same roof o...

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5 Key Traits to Look for in a Personal Injury Lawyer

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No matter where you live or how careful you are in life, bad things sadly happen to good people. In a split second, your life as you know it can change. Whether you were injured by a drunk driver's actions or had a slip and fall accident at work, it's important that you file a personal injury claim ...

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4 reasons why your Facebook page is great for your law firm

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As a legal firm, you're probably aware of the importance of having a strong, fully optimized website. You have your contact details, your company information, details about cases and wins for your clients. Your website helps to demonstrate your success and helps to get your firm's ethos across effec...

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Questions to ask a lawyer before hiring them

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Most of us need the services of a lawyer, at least once in our lives. Perhaps to make a will, buy a house, get a divorce or claim compensation after an accident. The list of ways legal professionals can inform and guide you is a long one. But, you need to do your research before hiring a lawyer. Ask...

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7 Careers You Can Pursue with a Law Degree

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Even as a junior Law student, you'll have to think seriously about your future after you finish Law School. This is because, while other fields of study come with a certain flexibility, law requires you to have a decent plan in place – so that you know what to focus your studying on. It is recommend...

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Finding the Best Law Firm in Barrie

If you find yourself in any type of situation that requires the assistance of a legal expert, then it becomes essential that you find a law firm which provides not only competent, but also highly skilled and experienced legal specialists. The problem with this task is often times that potential clie...

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Helpful Notary Services in Barrie

There are few things in life more frustrating than when we could have saved ourselves so much effort, headache, and expense by just taking the time to perform a simple little task prior to dealing with the events that may come up later as a result of failing to do so. There is no better example of t...

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What are my sickness rights at work?

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When it comes to sickness, you have certain rights that are designed to protect you. One example is HIPAA. HIPAA is the Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act and was put in place in 1996 with the intention of protecting individuals' health information when moving from one place of work...

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Prenup Agreements in Barrie

Do you find yourself in the uncomfortable position of getting ready for marriage, but wanting to first set up a prenup between you and your fiancé? If so, you are most likely anxious and uncertain about how exactly to even bring it up to them. Well, let us help to put your mind at ease for the time ...

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How to Manage a Personal Injury Claim

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Whether you hire a lawyer or not, there are still some things that you have to do and take care of when it comes to dealing with a personal injury claim. As you may know, you can manage some types of claims alone, while you need a lawyer for the complicated ones. For example, a simple fender-bender ...

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