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By Allison Dunn | January 18, 2024
Attorneys representing a woman in an employment discrimination action against Norfolk State University asserted that sanctions are not warranted due to "a miscommunication between Plaintiff and her counsel."
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By ALM Staff | January 18, 2024
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors.
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By Colleen Murphy | January 17, 2024
"The panel now permits a firm who is seeking financial information to establish punitive damages to also represent the very person at the defendant who was the highest ranking financial officer who was charged with litigation strategy and the production of the financial documents," Counsel for Care One, Bruce H. Nagel of Nagel Rice said in an email to the Law Journal. "And to make matters worse, secretly emailed himself the same financial information that plaintiffs counsel has been seeking in the underlying case. The decision is simply inexplicable."
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By Stephanie Wilkins | January 16, 2024
Legal industry experts make their predictions for what we can expect to see in e-discovery in 2024.
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By Melissa Hazell Davis | January 16, 2024
Several efficient platforms are available for use that streamline the process, making the technology more accessible to lawyers on all matters (regardless of size) with any budget.
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By Allison Dunn | January 12, 2024
"Though I agree that Mr. Allen offers no good excuse for his non-compliance—and arguably digs a deeper hole through his attempts to deflect blame onto his counsel—I find that a less severe sanction than default judgment is initially warranted for Defendants' and Mr. Allen's misconduct," U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson for the District of Maryland wrote in an order Wednesday.
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By Patricia E. Antezana | January 12, 2024
While generative AI tools should be researched, studied, and ultimately embraced if proven for their ability to assist lawyers with legal tasks, they first must be properly and accurately trained, tested, and verified.
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By Amanda O'Brien | January 10, 2024
Broken down geographically, Miami had one of the highest percentages of female associates, making up 55% of the associate population, with Phoenix coming in at a close second, with 54% women associates, while St. Louis trailed behind in last place.
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By Colleen Murphy | January 3, 2024
"In our opinion on the first appeal, we declined defendants' request to adopt a rule where shareholders in closely held corporations are presumed to hold the privilege individually as distinct from the corporate entity," the opinion said. "We continue to decline to make that rule in this opinion."
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By Colleen Murphy | December 27, 2023
"Defendants contend the judge's order compelling Costa's appearance without compliance with Swiss law violates Swiss law and the Hague Convention," the per curiam opinion said. "The Hague Convention 'allows judicial authorities' in one signatory country to obtain evidence located in another signatory country 'for use in judicial proceedings, commenced or contemplated.'"
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