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In-House Counsel: Privacy, Social Media Impact Litigation

Large numbers of in-house counsel report privacy or data protection disputes and others say they've had to preserve or collect data from the cloud.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Defendants Call For Equal Access to Steroid Bankruptcy Docs

A group of Tennessee healthcare defendants in a federal multidistrict litigation say that plaintiffs and defendants have disparate access to the discovery produced in the bankruptcy case of a compounding pharmacy that made steroids tainted with fungus and that led to an outbreak of fungal meningitis.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Litigant Can't Probe Adversary's Cloud Capability for E-Discovery

A federal judge blocks a party's effort to probe why its adversary has not made use of cloud-computing capabilities – affording enhanced ability to search, locate and retrieve emails and other information – to respond to discovery.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Destroying Evidence? There's No Clear State Law Against It

While it may not sit well with a judge, there's no state law prohibiting the destruction of evidence before a lawsuit is filed, says Gabriel Reynoso.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Offers Guidance on Transfers of Original Emails

A party asked to produce remotely stored emails in "native format" should do more than just forward them to preserve the original data, a federal judge has held, but declined to hold the party in contempt for failing to do so.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Starr Indemnity & Liability Co v. American Claims Management, Inc.

Attorney-Client Privilege, Work Product Doctrine Do Not Protect Letter, E-Mail Chain
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Finds Police Not Justified in Denying Records

The Nassau County Police Department's blanket assertion of an ongoing investigation falls far short of any justification for withholding records from the family of a college student inadvertently shot and killed by an officer, a judge has held.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Obtaining Evidence in England for U.S. Proceedings

James Drake, a barrister and examiner in London, and David Spears, a partner at Spears & Imes, write: A lawyer in legal proceedings in the United States can readily compel the production of evidence in England for use in U.S. proceedings, including both documents and sworn testimony. However, in keeping with the fact that the English rules governing civil litigation do not allow for U.S.-style pretrial discovery, there are important limitations on what a U.S. lawyer can seek and obtain in England.
16 minute read

National Law Journal

Zoloft Plaintiffs Argue Against Limiting Expert Testimony

A key causation witness for plaintiffs who allege Zoloft caused birth defects is not limited to testifying to the four corners of her expert report, plaintiffs attorneys argued in a court filing.
2 minute read

Legaltech News

Five Steps to Authentication

Vendor Voice: These five steps should be sufficient to authenticate social media and website content in any matter.
3 minute read

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