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Choate, Hall & Stewart was founded in 1899 by Charles F. Choate Jr. and John L. Hall, later joined by Ralph A. Stewart. Choate was the nephew of William Gardner Choate, the founder of the Connecticut school Choate Rosemary Hall, and the grand-nephew of lawyer Rufus Choate, whose statue appears in the Suffolk County Courthouse in downtown Boston.
The Federal Public Defender's Office represents individuals who cannot afford to hire a lawyer in federal criminal cases and related matters. The office is assigned to cases by the district courts in three districts (New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts), and by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Choate was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on January 24, 1832. [1] He was the son of Margaret Manning (née Hodges) Choate and physician George Choate.Among his siblings were William Gardner Choate, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck Choate, [3] and a sister, Caroline Choate [4] (von Gersdorff).
That exchange—between Dr. Joseph Biederman and a Houston plaintiffs lawyer whose firm had teamed up with Sheller in still more damage suits against Johnson & Johnson—was hardly the most combative or petty during one and a half days of a deposition that began on February 26, 2009. That morning, Biederman sat at a Boston law firm in front of ...
Under U.S. law, in order to rise to an actionable level of negligence (an actual breach of a legal duty of care), the injured party must show that the attorney's acts were not merely the result of poor strategy, but that they were the result of errors that no reasonably prudent attorney would make.
Andrew Meyer, of Lubin & Meyer, P.C., a Boston law firm specializing in medical malpractice, previously told the Daily News that his firm is moving forward with six cases, although calls keep ...
Texas passed a "tort reform" law taking effect on September 1, 2003. [43] The act limited non-economic damages (e.g., damages for pain and suffering) in most malpractice cases to $250,000 across all healthcare providers and $250,000 for healthcare facilities, with a limit of two facilities per claim.
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