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Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 514: Listen and Learn -- Discovery (Civ Pro)
Key Discovery Points: Be a Team Player When It Comes to Production
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All Things Investigation: Due Diligence and Drama: A Deep Dive into Art World with Daniel Weiner
Key Discovery Points: Don’t Get Caught with Your Hand in the Production Cookie Jar
Key Discovery Points: BYOD Case Law Covering Subpoenas and Employee Handbooks
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Understanding Discovery in Commercial Litigation
Key Discovery Points: Navigating Clawbacks When In-House Counsel Are Included
Key Discovery Points: Be Willing to Agree and Compromise When It Comes to Hyperlinks
Navigating the Maze: eDiscovery Essentials for Employers — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Key Discovery Points: Don’t Rush in as an AI Fool!
Key Discovery Points: If You Dispose of Relevant Hard Drives You Will Face (Some) Consequences
Key Discovery Point: Collecting Hyperlinked File Versions – Contemporaneous or “As Sent”?
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez – Innovative Approach to Safety
Key Discovery Points: Timing is Mostly Everything in eDiscovery
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 305: Spotlight on Civil Procedure (Part 2 – Discovery)
Key Discovery Points: Get Your Copy of the 2025 eDiscovery State of the Industry Report
A plaintiff’s obligation to establish “some basis in fact” for a common issue is acknowledged as a low bar. Several Canadian appellate courts have, however, confirmed a “two-step test” as the standard analytical framework....more
The Supreme Court of Louisiana this week recognized the dangers of AI manipulated video and ruled that defendants have the right to assess purported videos and photographs to assess authenticity and test for manipulation. ...more
Vandever v. Stair, 2025 WL 523863 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2025) - The Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld the dismissal of a medical negligence claim against a physician, finding that the plaintiff failed to present sufficient...more
ALIVECOR, INC. v. APPLE INC. Before Hughes, Linn, and Stark. Appeal from Patent Trial and Appeal Board - A party in a PTAB proceeding forfeits the ability to challenge an opposing party’s discovery obligation violation...more
A recent case out of Colorado highlights the continued attack on the attorney-client privilege during the claim adjustment process. In In re: Hill Hotel Owner, LLC v. Hanover Insurance Company, 557 P.3d 798 (Colo. Oct. 29,...more
On Feb. 7, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in In re Two Grand Jury Subpoenas Dated Sept. 13, 2023 affirmed the Southern District of New York’s order compelling a partner at a law firm and the firm to...more
The district court erred by admitting untimely expert testimony on noninfringement and by refusing to grant a new trial after the jury found noninfringement. Trudell Medical International (“Trudell”) sued D R Burton...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s decision to admit expert testimony and remanded the case to a different judge, noting that “from the moment this case fell in his lap, the trial...more
What's the difference? There are three main ways for a defendant to bring a lawsuit to an end. Each involves a different level of proof – and of expense and hassle. It's better to get a lawsuit “disposed of” as early as...more
Kilpatrick partners John Alemanni and Justin Krieger recently presented a CLE addressing “Building a Winning Evidentiary Record at the PTAB (and Surviving Appeal).”...more
On March 16, 2023, in a published decision in Norma Davis v. Disability Rights New Jersey, the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled that a former employee’s private social media accounts and personal cell phone records are...more
Trial attorneys in New Jersey commonly file motions to extend discovery when additional time is needed to prosecute or defend their cases. Over the past few years, a recent trend has emerged where cases are being scheduled...more
It is not uncommon for an opposing expert to opine that the existence of injury alone implies negligence, nor is it unusual to find that such opinions are supported only by general reliance on “literature” with no discernible...more
Kathryn Isted In Harbor Healthcare System, L.P. v. United States, 5 F.4th 593 (5th Cir. 2021), the court of appeals ruled that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to exercise its equitable jurisdiction over a...more
What is the role of the court where expert evidence is “uncontroverted”, but appears not to prove the claimant’s case to the requisite standard? The Court of Appeal had to contend with that issue recently in Griffiths v TUI,...more
Whether it’s during a deposition or during trial, the job of preserving errors for judicial review is a vital part of the litigator’s professional obligation to his or her client. Many trial outcomes turn on evidentiary...more
Precedential Opinions of Note - Evidence from Outside Limitations Period Permissible to Prove Ongoing Scheme to Defraud - United States v. James (April 3, 2020), No. 19-1250...more
Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. Marbury v. Madison (circa 1803) is perhaps the most famous example of this principle. But the limits of federal jurisdiction are regularly tested in our courts today. One...more
HVLPO2, LLC v. OXYGEN FROG, LLC - Before Newman, Moore, and Chen. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Summary: It is an abuse of discretion to permit a witness to testify...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (“Sixth Circuit”) has ruled that federal courts in the United States may order parties to produce documents and testimony in support of private commercial arbitrations...more
In its recent decision, Flock Estate v Flock, 2019 ABCA 194, the Alberta Court of Appeal considered the extent to which evidence and submissions proffered in an arbitration might be admissible in a related court proceeding....more
Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal has ruled that Florida law does not impose an obligation on a nonparty to preserve evidence based solely on the foreseeability of litigation. Shamrock-Shamrock, Inc. v. Remark involved...more
The internet, and especially social media, represents a rich reservoir of potential evidence for use in litigation. That reservoir grows broader and deeper every day—and sometimes, litigants underestimate how much of that...more
In a matter of first impression, the South Carolina Court of Appeals recently put the brakes on a successful trial strategy increasingly employed by the plaintiff’s bar. In the case of Gary Nestler and Julie Nestler v. Joseph...more
On a motion to compel that remarkably made its way all the way to the Court of Appeals, New York’s high court holds that even materials deemed “private” by a Facebook user are subject to discovery, if relevant....more