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There are some potential resources that may be available to you other than a public defender. For example, law schools often run legal clinics in which students studying to become lawyers can handle cases under the supervision of a professor who is licensed to practice law and is an expert in...

Even LexisNexis and Westlaw (by far the two biggest legal information services used by lawyers) don't have much state trial court information. Also, neither of those services are cheap, and without a subscription to the relevant database(s) searching these services on demand is particularly...

I think you are unlikely to find anything close to a complete database with the kind of information you seek. State trial court records are not usually incorporated into national legal databases because (1) they'd not be of interest to most lawyers, let alone the general public and (2) it would...

Well, let's start here. Perjury and defamation are NOT the same thing. One cannot successfully sue a court witness on a claim of defamation for testimony given in that court. But if the witness commits perjury, the state may bring criminal charges for that. Part of understanding the law is...

This forum addresses questions about law in the U.S. You'll need to find one that deals with UK criminal law. I will say this much though: in the U.S. putting your case documents online for the whole world to see is not a good idea, and that's likely true in the U.K. too. It exposes your...

That's overly simplistic, Jack. Whether a deal is offered and the exact details of any offer depends on a lot of factors. But receiving discovery requests is not one of them. Handling evidence requests is a routine part of the job and in every case where an attorney is representing the defendant...

Your options are pleading guilty, pleading not guilty if you have not yet entered a plea, coming up with money to pay a lawyer to represent you, ask for a public defender (PD), or represent yourself. By far the worst of those is the last one: representing yourself. You aren't an attorney and you...

You are union member. If the union has a collective bargaining agreement with the employer then that will play a big part in the outcome. The first things I suggest you do is: (1) inform your shop steward (or whatever name your union calls the person who deals directly with the union members...

Not if the lawyer is willing to make the changes she wants. But to answer your question asked in the title of your thread her poor understanding of English is not a reason the law recognizes for voiding a contract. If one doesn't have a good grasp of English and is presented with a contract...

Her benefits will get offset by the amount of the annuity and any noncountable income she receives. What this means is that by taking the annuity she won't be any worse off in terms of gross income than she is on only SSI. If the annuity is large enough she might not get any SSI benefits at all...

The regulation of banking is detailed and rather more complex than most people realize. There are generally at least two regulators for most banks: the primary regulator (which would be one of several federal agencies or the state) and the FDIC, which insures the deposits held at most banking...

Why did you wait so long to go to start enforcing the judgment. In the world of collecting, one of the common things I see is that the longer a creditor lets it sit, the less likely that creditor is to get anything because other creditors will have already beat the creditor to grab whatever...

Sure. In some states it may be a county office that is charged with task, or it may be the city. Or, as my state, a little mix of the two.For example, I seem to recall that some dates have the cities do it if the city is a home rule city, and the county does it for any part of the county that is...

I agree that determining where the marriage and divorce took place may be quite a challenge unless you know more than just the names of the married couple unless their names are incredibly unusual. What that means is that if you go this route, expect to pay the PI a lot in fees to track down...

If she was injured while working for the district then she should be eligible for worker's comp. If she is eligible for worker's comp then that's the route she needs to go as she would not be able to file a lawsuit instead of taking the worker's comp. She may want to discuss this with an...

Were you injured at all in the collision? Do you have any medical bills from the accident? If you do you may want to talk to a personal injury lawyer before you file your claim to be sure you get fully compensated for your injuries. If the long board destruction was the only loss you had as a...

That's certainly a possibility. I wouldn't think all three would be that stubborn, but perhaps they were. Or the one or two who weren't so stubborn were prodded by the true believer to stay and make a go of it with what they had. Any way I look at, there's a lot of stupidity involved in this...

I had read about this unfortunate find a few days ago. The Rocky Mountain wilderness is a dangerous place for anyone who does not have any knowledge of how to survive in those kinds of elements. It's especially dangerous in the the winter, and it's unfortunate they chose to stay there after the...

How many defendants are you suing in this case? Are you using a court form for the filing or are you drafting an original submission to the court? If it's a court form, which form is it?

First observation, nothing in that handbook that you didn't know about until today certainly is not a contract that would obligate you for those things done/not done prior to today. Second, in most circumstances an employee handbook is not a contract even though it may look like one...