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    This Week - Planning Underway for Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
    Kirk T. Hartley
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    This Week - Planning Underway for Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence

    Planning continues this week for the Fourth Edition of the federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The event is an open access...
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    Kirk T. Hartley
    • Jul 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Criminal Law Against Genetic Discrimination Upheld by Supreme Court of Canada

    The growing real world importance of genomics is illustrated by yet another ruling involving issues at an intersection between genomics...
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    Kirk T. Hartley
    • May 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Individual Genetic Variability Matters Greatly for Some Diseases in Some People

    The occasional importance of individual genetic variability in diseases continues to be highlighted by the wide range of outcomes in...
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    723 Open Access Virus Genomes Provide Real Time Genomic Tracking of the Spread of COVID19
    Kirk T. Hartley
    • Mar 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    723 Open Access Virus Genomes Provide Real Time Genomic Tracking of the Spread of COVID19

    Nextstrain.org is a valuable web site that illustrates the power and speed of using real time open access virus genomes to track and...
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    Kirk T. Hartley
    • Feb 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Expectations for More Genomic Testing in Medical Product Liability Cases

    It's always good to see more lawyers focusing on the use of genomics. In that vein, note a new February 20, 2020 blog post with a...
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    WSJ Notes More Specialized Legal Training Other Than Obtaining a JD
    Kirk Hartley
    • Dec 20, 2018
    • 1 min

    WSJ Notes More Specialized Legal Training Other Than Obtaining a JD

    “Nationwide, 14% of law-school enrollees are pursuing non-J.D. programs, newly released numbers from the American Bar Association show,...
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    Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”

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