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Corporate Counsel

Counsel's Privilege Ends After the Company's Sold

Attorney-client privilege may endure until death—but not upon sale of a company.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Oddone' and Experience-Based Expert Opinion

In his Evidence column, Michael J. Hutter, a professor at Albany Law School, writes that a threshold question in applying 'Frye' is whether the principle or procedure that would be the subject of an expert's testimony is "scientific" and if so, whether it is "novel." In 'People v. Oddone,' the Court of Appeals addressed the first part of this question in the context of an expert opinion based on the expert's personal experience.
14 minute read

The Recorder

The Utility Reform Network v. Public Utilities Commission (Pacific Gas and Electric Company)

By | February 06, 2014
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Company's Patent Office Filing Held To Void Attorney-Client Privilege

A federal judge, finding a hip-replacement device manufacturer waived attorney-client privilege on communications with its patent counsel, has compelled the disclosure of documents and oral statements in an infringement suit.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Bellwether Trial Opening in Vaginal Mesh MDL

The first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation over the Ethicon vaginal mesh pelvic repair system is slated to open next Monday in the Southern District of West Virginia.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Declines to Ban Teen's Tape of Alleged Rape Apology

In an era when teens routinely record their musings and post them online for the world to see and hear, it makes little sense to bar prosecutors from using a minor's recorded conversation with her father in a rape case, a judge in Brooklyn has held.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Plaintiffs Said To Be Failing to Prosecute Their Claims in Nexium MDL

Lawyers for defendant drug makers in litigation over the heartburn drug Nexium say that more than 730 plaintiffs have failed to get done the paperwork necessary to their claims of bone damage and fractures.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Newman, PICS Case No. 14-0037 (Pa. Super. Jan. 6, 2014) Bender, J. (15 pages).

By | February 04, 2014
Admissibility of Evidence
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Harmer v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, PICS Case No. 14-0026 (Pa. Commonw. Jan. 7, 2014) Simpson, J. (18 pages).

By | February 04, 2014
Prior Bad Acts
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Antidormi, PICS Case No. 14-0129 (Pa. Super. Jan. 23, 2014) Wecht, J. (40 pages).

By | February 04, 2014
Trial Administration • Motion for Mistrial • Exculpatory Evidence • Inconclusive Fingerprint Report
3 minute read

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