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Want to obtain limited legal advice and consultation without paying thousands of dollars or more for drawn out legal representation?  A possible option, available in some but not all situations, is “unbundled” legal service.  Much is being written on the subject these days.  See, for instance, a wonderful piece written by North Carolina attorney Stephanie...
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This law office has commented in previous posts on financial abuse of the elderly and has recommended a few common sense steps to combat that threat, including financial powers of attorney [POA’s] so long as “well-drafted and responsibly used.” Recently, appellate courts in both Mississippi and Florida have rendered opinions underscoring both inherent issues with...
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Anyone who has bought or sold a house, applied for a credit card, opened a checking account, borrowed money, or purchased a new car is all too familiar with the accompanying flurry of paperwork. Within the assortment of forms and almost without exception, one will find a dispute resolution provision called an arbitration clause.  A...
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When Ben Rogers found his friend Tom Sawyer whitewashing Aunt Polly’s “thirty yards of board fence nine feet high,” he declared that he was going swimming and added, “Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther work, wouldn’t you?” “What do you call work?” Tom asked, not to be outdone and eager to...
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PIC Group v. Landcoast Insulation was a federal case in Mississippi arising out of the death of a worker and injuries to six others following the collapse of scaffolding.  Claims for insurance coverage and indemnity followed, during the course of which requests were made for electronic data or what the Federal Rules call electronically stored...
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My father Frank D. Montague, Jr. passed away December 22, 2013, peacefully and surrounded by family.  The son of Ida Lois Polk Montague and Frank D. Montague, Sr., he was born in Hattiesburg on August 26, 1925, and graduated with honors from Hattiesburg High School. He obtained his law degree in 1950 and then a...
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