Slate’s Law Blog

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...

Anyone who owns property in New Mexico that is subject to an easement needs to understand their rights when it comes to maintaining gates or fences on the property. In these types of scenarios, you may be wondering: when property or a parcel of land is subject to an...

If you own property in New Mexico and you have neighbors with trees on their property that begin encroaching on your land, or that grow beyond the boundary line of the property, what rights do you have as a property owner? In other words, do the trees become your...

If you own a consumer product that was recently subject to a recall, or if you own a consumer product that caused injury to you or someone in your family, you could be eligible to file a product liability lawsuit. Yet product liability claims can be complicated, and...

Accidents in Santa Fe have many different causes, and liability will depend upon where and how the injury occurred. In order for a person in an accident to be eligible to file a claim after an accident, the accident must have caused an injury in which the person...

Patients in Santa Fe and across New Mexico should feel confident visiting a healthcare provider for a routine checkup or to seek a diagnosis without worrying that a medical error will result in a serious injury. Yet medical errors are in fact quite common, and...

Car accidents can happen almost anywhere in Santa Fe, from high-speed collisions on I-25 to fender-bender accidents in parking lots or neighborhood streets. When car accidents do happen in Santa Fe, they can have many different causes. In most cases, however, crashes...