Edward M Spiro

February 28, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In their Southern District Civil Practice Roundup, Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul, principals of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, write that one of the biggest challenges facing potential plaintiffs in cyber tort cases often lies in identifying who the defendants are and where they are located.

By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul

11 minute read

October 24, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

When clients use their work emails, systems, or devices to communicate with their lawyers, they may, unwittingly, compromise the privileged nature of those communications, exposing those candid exchanges to their adversaries or to regulators and prosecutors.

By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul

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August 21, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In their Southern District Civil Practice Roundup, Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul, principals of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, discuss Southern District Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck's authority on an emerging method of computer-assisted electronic document review, and how plaintiffs in a case where he endorsed the use of that method sought his recusal based on his "advocacy" of it.

By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul

12 minute read

June 18, 2013 | New York Law Journal

In their Southern District Civil Practice Roundup, Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul, principals of Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello, discuss Southern District Judge Jed Rakoff's reversal of his own earlier decision upholding Edge Act jurisdiction after the Second Circuit called for a narrow reading of that statute's jurisdictional grant in its own recent decision.

By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul

12 minute read

June 19, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In their Southern District Civil Practice Roundup, Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul, principals of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, write that foreign litigants in U.S. courts can find themselves caught between discovery orders formulated under the broad disclosure principles animating the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and far more restrictive privacy-driven laws of other countries in which they are located, forbidding the very disclosures required by U.S. court order.

By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul

11 minute read

December 18, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In their Southern District Civil Practice Roundup, Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul, principals of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, write that while the promise of confidentiality for mediation materials is broad, it is not sacrosanct, and judges have struggled with defining when and under what circumstances a third party may obtain discovery of mediation materials.

By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul

12 minute read

April 03, 2002 | New York Law Journal

A mong the decisions handed down in January and February in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York were decisions by Judge John S. Martin Jr. sanctioning a law firm for closing its eyes to a client`s obviously false affidavit and by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin refusing to enforce an arbitration agreement that she determined was unconscionable in substance and in the manner of its execution.

By Michael C. Silberberg And Edward M. Spiro

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August 05, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Edward M. Spiro, principal of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, writes that sometimes referred to as a sub-species of the work-product privilege, the deliberative process privilege is intended to enhance the quality of agency decision-making.

By Edward M. Spiro

13 minute read

August 16, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In their Southern District Civil Practice Roundup, Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul, principals of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, discuss recent revisions to the Local Rules for the Southern and Eastern Districts that illustrate and harmonize two potentially competing approaches governing conferences between attorney and client during a deposition.

By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul

15 minute read

June 03, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In their Southern District Civil Practice Roundup, Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul, principals of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, write: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have charted a deliberate course toward a more flexible, cooperative system for service of process, reducing some of the gamesmanship that used to accompany the opening act of a lawsuit filed in federal court. But, as several recent cases from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York make clear, service of process must still be done very much by-the-book, and the flexibility embodied in the rules only goes so far.

By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul

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