by Slate Stern | May 19, 2026 | Breach of Contract, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Civil courts and criminal courts have more differences than similarities. When you visit a personal injury attorney for a consultation, and you realize that your medical bills after an accidental injury are unaffordable, your lawyer will inevitably spend a lot of time...
by Slate Stern | Mar 24, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
New Mexico is one of only a few places in the world where, in the span of a brief road trip, you can see both snow-capped mountains and sandy deserts. The good news is that, when the temperature reaches the triple digits in some parts of the state in the summer, there...
by Slate Stern | Mar 10, 2026 | Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog, Slip-and-Fall Accidents and Premises Liability
In the first week of January 2026, a young boy was celebrating his birthday with his family at the Ski Apache resort in New Mexico. News sources, which did not indicate the child’s name or age, reported that Ski Apache staff responded to an accident at the resort and...
by Slate Stern | Feb 24, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Most people who file personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits do so shortly before the deadline for filing. Part of this delay is that they are spending time preparing documents to meet legal requirements so that the court will consider the lawsuit rather than...
by Slate Stern | Feb 17, 2026 | Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Not only do the laws vary from one state to another, but they also vary from one year to another. If you got injured in an accident in New Mexico, then the courts of New Mexico have jurisdiction to rule on any lawsuits arising from the accident, and they determine the...
by Slate Stern | Feb 10, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Laws are written so that they are sufficiently simple that they apply in all situations, and yet they are flexible enough to account for the variety among individual cases. For example, criminal laws have a range of sentences for people convicted of the offense. The...
