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Corporate Counsel

Don't Forget to Archive Your Company's Social Media

Most companies are marketing via social media. But are they archiving what they post for e-discovery purposes?
2 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Challenges Denial of Search Warrant for Email Account

Federal prosecutors are pushing back against U.S. District Magistrate Judge John Facciola, who says the government has repeatedly filed search warrant applications for electronic information that run afoul of the Fourth Amendment.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Mississippi Supreme Court Reverses $1.7M Silica Verdict

The Mississippi Supreme Court has reversed a wrongful death verdict of $1.7 million in a silica case. The court concluded the plaintiffs had not shown sufficient evidence of Mississippi Valley Silica Co. Inc.'s liability.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Kim, PICS Case No. 14-0562 (C.P. Montgomery Oct. 8, 2013) Smyth, J. (25 pages).

By | April 22, 2014
Search and Seizure • Reasonable Suspicion • Consent
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

DeFrancesco v. Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg, Inc., PICS Case No. 14-0565 (C.P. Lehigh Jan. 31, 2014) Johnson, J. (13 pages).

By | April 22, 2014
Doctor's Failure to Document • Expert Testimony on Standard of Care • Learned Treatises as Authoritative in Practice Area • Scope of Expert Testimony
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Public Scrutiny Leads to Questions About Informant Usage

Determining when a case is strong enough to prosecute and when a confidential informant might be too compromised to take the witness stand are decisions typically made behind closed doors.
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Door Remains Open for Lay Testimony, Temporal Proximity in Establishing Causation in Personal Injury Cases

Temporal proximity coupled with lay testimony establishing a sequence of events which provides a strong, logically traceable connection between an event and the plaintiff's injury may be sufficient proof of causation in some cases.
6 minute read

Law.com

Lawyers Clash Over Steve Jobs in Valley 'No Poach' Case

Accounts that Apple's late cofounder, chairman and CEO was volatile are hardly revelations, but they have become a battleground in the class action over Silicon Valley's no-cold-call pacts.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Brooklyn DA Names Leaders of New Units

Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson has tapped the New York Attorney General's office and the Bronx District Attorney's office for prosecutors to lead a newly-formed frauds bureau and forensic science unit.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Split Court Faults Proof of Similar Ring Theft

A man accused of stealing a $30,000 diamond ring is entitled to a new trial because a judge allowed testimony from a woman who said that he stole rings from her as well under similar circumstances, a divided state appeals panel has ruled.
6 minute read

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