Olson

August 24, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Without the use of appropriate demonstrative evidence, you run the risk of confusing a jury with unintelligible technical jargon. If you build the presentation logically, and mix tangible items with graphics and live demonstrations, you have a much better chance of persuading a jury to believe your expert.

By Bruce Olson

7 minute read

August 17, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Have you faced the challenge of presenting electronic evidence to a jury through the testimony of a computer forensic expert? If you have, you most likely relied on the talking head to present opinions to the jury. If you simply ask your expert, without more, to describe how the electronic information was secured and analyzed, attorney Bruce Olson says you are taking a big chance. Without demonstrative evidence, you run the risk of a bored jury sleeping through your expert's testimony.

By Bruce Olson

6 minute read

March 03, 2000 | Law.com

Bill and Hillary Clinton emerged from a Yale Law School milieu that admired litigation as the remedy for social ills. In office, they proceeded to lend a hand as their supporters in the plaintiffs bar established themselves as the most powerful lawyers in history, setting up as a "fourth branch" of government and recycling tobacco-fee fortunes into assaults on gunmakers, HMOs, Microsoft, and other targets. At the same time, the Clintons came to experience the miseries of destructive litigation.

By Walter Olson

5 minute read

July 29, 2010 | Law.com

If you lack the ability or budget to create load files suitable for e-discovery review, or the intended recipient does not have the facilities for document review, dtSearch Publish can create in five easy steps a production set that can be viewed by anyone, says consultant Bruce A. Olson.

By Bruce A. Olson

8 minute read

February 28, 2007 | Law.com

Since New York City's Health Department enacted the first ban on trans fats in restaurants last fall, lawmakers around the country have proposed a wide range of prohibitions, warnings, phase-outs and public education on trans fats. Sarah L. Olson of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon writes that while there's nothing wrong with encouraging healthier eating, the adoption of a patchwork of inconsistent food-related regulations can create a Pandora's box of legal and public policy issues.

By Sarah L. Olson

6 minute read