Slate’s Law Blog

When you enter a hospital as a patient, whether to receive outpatient care, for planned inpatient care, or for emergency treatment, you should be able to expect that you will receive a reasonable quality of care and that you will not suffer harm because of medical...

When your business enters into a contract with another party to provide services or goods for your company, the other party’s failure to perform can result in frustration, monetary loss, or even damage to your business’s reputation. If you are dealing with a breach of...

The summer months are a welcome respite from school and required activities for many kids, as well as for parents in the Santa Fe area. Yet summertime can also come with various personal injury risks, and many of those injuries result from the negligence of other...

When we think about defective products, we often think about dangerous automobile parts, hazardous home appliances, and defective medical devices that can result in serious and deadly injuries. Yet most of us are also quite familiar with food product recalls, and we...

Any patient in the Santa Fe area who is seeing a health care provider for an annual exam or routine care, or for a serious medical procedure, should be able to expect that the health care provider will perform any necessary medical tasks with care and skill. Yet...

Business litigation in New Mexico can involve a wide range of issues, including tortious interference claims. Generally speaking, tortious interference can involve a third party’s interference with a prospective or an existing contract, and it may be possible for your...

If you are injured in an accident or another incident resulting from someone else’s negligence, you should be thinking about your options for filing a personal injury claim. While there are different theories of liability in personal injury cases, most personal injury...

Medical malpractice, or medical negligence, can take many different forms in the Santa Fe area, and patients can suffer harm in a wide variety of ways. Most often, people think about medical malpractice as a mistake made when a patient is seeking a diagnosis or being...

Motor vehicle collisions can happen almost anywhere in Santa Fe and throughout New Mexico, from highways and interstates to neighborhood roads to parking lots. On some highways in the U.S., high rates of car crashes and traffic fatalities have led to traffic safety...

When you are dealing with a business dispute because an employee or a vendor has breached a contract, or because a member or partner in your business has taken a particular action that you believe could harm the company, you might be seeking methods of dispute...