Fox Rothschild partners Daniel A. Schnapp and Ernest E. Badway discuss the methods of proving and obtaining monetary damages, as interpreted by the New York federal and state courts. They also examine a methodology in a recent case involving the loss of complex technology, including the court’s review of proffered expert testimony.

Dickstein Shapiro partner and arbitrator Victoria A. Kummer writes that delivering a barbed comment at the expense of your adversary might momentarily impress your client, and it can even feel pretty good at times, especially if the guy on the other side of the well has been delivering a few himself, but will that well-aimed bon mot actually help your client?