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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Oct 26, 2020
- 1 min
Unclean Hands (Affirmative Defense)
The doctrine of unclean hands is an affirmative defense that “prevents one who has engaged in improper conduct regarding the subject matter
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 26, 2020
- 8 min
Litigation & Legal Risk Management Checklist
Vail Law's open-source Litigation and Legal Risk Management Checklist Tool.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 18, 2020
- 6 min
The 20 Maxims of Equity
This article is part of Vail Law’s open-source litigation and legal risk management checklist. Connect with me on LinkedIn. Equity is an ...
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 14, 2020
- 6 min
List of 230 Affirmative Defenses
The most complete list of affirmative defenses available in one place: currently 230 separate affirmative defenses. This is part of Vail ...
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 12, 2020
- 2 min
Franchise Litigation - Take on your Franchisor and Win
But a certain percentage of franchisees have horror stories to tell about their franchisor.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 11, 2020
- 1 min
Nuisance (and Judicial Clarity)
Nuisance law is not the model of clarity.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 11, 2020
- 2 min
Solatium (And Measuring 'Pain & Suffering' in Wrongful Death)
Wrongful death isn’t really a separate tort—in practice, it is normally an underlying negligence tort.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 10, 2020
- 1 min
Premises Liability (to a Trespasser)
Premises liability is a common-law tort, but in most states (including Colorado) it has been replaced by statute.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
Product Liability
Product liability is a complex area of law.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 10, 2020
- 1 min
Compose - AI-Driven Brief Automation
Vail Law is also now using Casetext's AI Brief Automation tool "Compose."
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Legal Technology, Research, and AI
At Vail Law, we maximize both effectiveness and efficiency for our clients through appropriate use of technology.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 1 min
Mayhem
Yes, mayhem is a tort, reaching back to the Coventry Act of seventeenth century England.
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