Now this is one thing that you should be very careful about.

Real estate agents are in the game of buying and selling homes. At their core, they are sales people and rightly so. Given this fact, you need to be very leery of any real estate agent that offers legal advice. Why? They haven’t got a clue and are potentially breaking the law.

You go to view a home and notice the owner has done a lot of custom work. You love it. The home is unique and amazingly so. You put in an offer through your real estate agent. After some haggling, a deal is reached. Escrow gets underway and then a problem arises. The appraiser notes the home has more square footage than recorded in the county records. It becomes obvious the owner did the customization without getting permits. It also becomes obvious that some of the work is not up to code.

At this point, the deal should either die or the seller should be offering major financial concessions. You are not really sure what to do. Your real estate agent tells you to take the concessions. She has seen this before and knows that the building department will okay the home. If not, you can always come back and sue the owner for breach of warranty and contract. Taking this advice, you go ahead and buy the home.

After taking possession of the home, you are told by a building inspector half the home will need to be torn down and rebuilt to meet code. You are outrages and speak with an attorney about filing a lawsuit against the seller. The attorney looks at the deal, notes all the disclosure done by the seller and the concessions on price. Guess what, you have no legal remedy. Everything the real estate agent told you is wrong.

This type of scenario plays out repeatedly. Real estate agents are famous for giving out legal advice regarding issues they have no business discussing. They are versed in the practice of selling and buying real estate, not offering legal opinions. To this end, more than a few real estate agents have been sued for “the unauthorized practice of law”. In the scenario above, the buyer would in fact be able to sue the real estate agent and successfully so.

In truth, most real estate agents give legal advice without really thinking about it. They also do it without malice. They are just trying to make a sale. While they can incur liability for doing so, it is incumbent on you to realize that an agent is not a lawyer. If there are legal issues related to a real estate matter, you should speak with an attorney to get accurate advice. Otherwise, you are taking a huge risk.

Can we assume that international law supersedes the sovereign rights of a country?
This book provides dramatic evidence of the principle of legality at work in international human rights institutions during the past half-century. It brings together scattered legal opinions from the early years of the United Nations and renders a great service in chronicling the practice of international law in a vital domain. It is itself a labour of love, having been assembled piece-by-piece over several years. Legal advisers in international organizations and t… More >>

The Principle of Legality in International Human Rights Institutions:Selected Legal Opinions

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Legal Opinions Of Joseph M. White, Daniel Webster, And Edward Livingston: In Relation To The Title Of The Duke Of Alagon

Legal Opinions: The Impact of the Tribar Committee’s New Report on Legal Opinion Practice

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Making the most of your research time.

Is it possible with all the stuff that you get with google, well the answer is yet, it is possible.

By: Todd Spodek, Esq.: Google has recently launched Google Scholar, which is an amazing free resource for both lawyers and non-lawyers to research the law. Everyone can now read the full legal opinions of U.S. State, Federal and Appellate cases.

These cases can be searched by the case name, or topic. Further, one can now easily see how a legal opinion has influenced other Judges by reviewing the citing page, and related cases page.

For example if you wanted to read the famous NY Court of Appeals Case People v. Huntley which allows a defendant to challenge the voluntariness and lawful nature of any statement made to the police you could easily do that.

This is an important case to know about because if a defendant requests a Huntley hearing, and is successful at the hearing, any incriminating statements made will be precluded from trial. The hearing Judge will consider the following factors to determine if the statements were voluntary:

* Whether the defendant was in custody at the time of the statement. If so, whether the defendant waives hid Miranda rights.
* Whether the police used unfair coercion or violence
* Whether the police made promises to the defendant
* Whether the defendant mad ethe statement on his own free will
* Whether the statements were obtained as a result of an illegal arrest

The Judge must find that voluntariness beyond a reasonable doubt before the confession can be submitted to the trial jury.

Here’s how to use Google Scholar:

1. Start at Google Scholar
2. Click Google Advanced Scholar Search on the right side of the search box
3. Type Huntley into the “with all of the words” search box
4. Scroll down to Legal Opinions and Journals, Search only Court opinions from the following states, and check New York
5. Click Search Scholar
6. Once you pull up the case, if you click on the “How Cited” link you can see 1) How this document has been cited and 2) Related documents.

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Workmen’s Compensation: Legal Opinions on Various Phases of the Iowa Workmen’s Compensation Act

The concept of offshore outsourcing has gained immense popularity in the coming times. Businesses across the world have not only embraced offshore outsourcing but also integrated it as a key business strategy within their companies. The practice of transferring an existing business function to external service provider enables businesses to utilize outside resources to perform activities previously handled in-house, thus gaining a cost effectiveness.

Legal Process Outsourcing to India
Legal process outsourcing or LPO as its popularly called is increasingly gaining popularity in the offshore outsourcing world. And India is one of the major hubs for LPO services. In terms of brainpower, fluency in English language and knowledge of legal processes, Indian lawyers are well at par with the U.S. lawyers. Also, India’s legal system is based on English Common Law and Indian legal training is conducted solely in English. Not only this, Appellate and Supreme Court proceedings take place exclusively in English and legal opinions are also written in the same language. This is why Indian lawyers are so well-conversant with the UK legal system.

Benefits of Outsourcing to India
India is the world favorite destination for LPO services. Here are some reasons why it is so:

Time Differences – India and UK lie in different time zones which enables Indian lawyers to work overnight and complete the work before the official business day begins in the UK. Likewise, when it is day time in India, it is night in US. So, when Attorneys in US leave office for the day, they instruct their counterparts in India to do research on particular legal issues. In turn, Indian lawyers work all through their day and complete the work before the official business day begins in the US. And so, US Attorneys can have the complete research done on their table in the early morning.

Proficiency in English Language – India generates more than 200 million English-speaking, college-educated professionals every year. And since the medium of education is English, all of them are well adept at the language thereby ensuring no communication problems.

Lots of Talent – India has more than 500 law schools and about 200,000 law students graduating each year, thus a large pool of attorneys. Lawyers in India use the very same research tools and case summaries as associates in the U.S. do thereby ensuring a steady knowledge. In addition, India has a reputation of producing highly motivated, intelligent and extremely process-oriented professionals. And they have no qualms completing tasks such as poring over and coding thousands of documents in advance of a trial that foreign associates at law firms would look down upon.

Low Prices – One of the prime reasons why legal process outsourcing to India is on the rise is because of the sky high fees quoted by US attorney, even junior attorneys. This is why small law firms and single practitioners in US, who cannot afford to have large number of staff decide to hire legal officers from India to do their tasks while they can concentrate on their practice. Their work at the same time gets completed in India at a fraction of cost and without even having to invest in infrastructure and staff.

This is an interesting book and one that you would be well served with reading…

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To get client satisfaction, especially from legal firms, is a very difficult task. One of the most well trusted legal firms in Kenya and in Africa that have so far provided satisfaction for their clients is Daly and Figgis. Their main aim is to provide the following to their clients

Competence: The lawyers who represent you should be well experienced and should have vast knowledge on various aspects of law. They should have practiced for a while. As you may know, ‘practice makes perfect’ and in this way the lawyers gain experience. The lawyers should also qualify as Solicitors, Barristers or Attorneys. The lawyers should provide succinct advice, real solutions and thought out best options rather than lengthy legal opinions and voluminous advices.

Commercial outlook to legal problems: Another thing that law firms should do is to understand that clients expect them to do more than just quote the textbook to them. Clients want to know how the lawyers will argue out their cases in court by applying both book knowledge and wisdom. The legal experts should be mindful of the commercial aspects of a transaction and advise the clients accordingly.

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