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Editing Medical-Legal Reports: An Interview with Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa

October 19, 2021 by Merel Elsinga | Leave a Comment

Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa is a freelance writer and editor who specializes in editing medical-legal assessment reports. These reports comprise opinions of medical experts that are used in a legal claim context. At the Editors Canada conference on June 13, 2021, Jahleen presented “Editing Medical-Legal Reports: A Big Little Niche.” Recently, editor Merel Elsinga interviewed Jahleen to […]

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Know Your Legal Limits

February 26, 2013 by R. Franklin Carter | 3 Comments on Know Your Legal Limits

Let’s begin by sketching a fictional but plausible scenario. Dan Ascot is a librarian who works at the University of Western Nebraska. One day, in 2009, he posts a few remarks about a publisher on his blog. He says that Knightsbridge Press, a publisher of scholarly books in Massachusetts, produces “over-priced works of dubious scholarship.” […]

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