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Oct. 30, 2024

The value of knowing your local legal landscape

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Elizabeth Pipkin

Managing Partner, McManis Faulkner

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Harvard Univ Law School

As a lawyer, knowing how the law is applied in your jurisdiction is key.

Former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill famously titled his biography "All Politics Is Local." In some ways, all law is local too. Exercising the judgment required in our profession often requires deep knowledge of the local legal landscape.

Views on legal matters differ between judges in different states or counties - and sometimes even between judges in the same courthouse. This place...

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