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Discovery
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Pennsylvania Family Law
Twitter Download Makes Account Production Easy and Risky for Clients
By Aaron Weems
(Image: http://www.opencms.org/en/) The practice of family law has seen a shift in discovery in recent years with the increased use of social networking sites by clients. There are increasingly…
Delaware Chancery Law Blog
Amendments to Chancery Rules 26, 30, 34 and 45
Effective January 1, 2013, the Court of Chancery will amend its Rules regarding discovery. According to the Court of Chancery’s Press Release issued December 4, 2012, Rules 26, 30, 34…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
The EEOC Wins A Round In Its Discovery Tug-Of-War In EEOC v. Freeman
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Rebecca Bjork In EEOC v. Freeman, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 179183, at *6 (D. Md. Dec. 19, 2012), Magistrate Judge Day of the U.S.…
NJ Family Legal Blog
The Next Time the Judge Says You Can't Have More Discovery, Remind Her of This Case
Essentially, the Appellate Division confirmed that this is not a came and gamesmanship and playing hide the ball cannot be permitted. Most cases will settle but if a matter is…
Washington Energy Report
FERC Loses Attorney-Client Privilege Argument in District Court Concerning JP Morgan Emails
On November 29, 2012, U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson issued a memorandum order denying FERC’s request to compel production of certain portions of 25 email documents by J.P. Morgan…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Insurer Waives Privileges
Generally, any communication between an attorney and client is privileged. I often tell clients that when they want to talk about their claim by someone, they should talk to their…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Issacharoff & Miller on Rule 12(b)(6)
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Professors Samuel Issacharoff & Geoffrey Miller (NYU)have posted on SSRN a draft of their article, An Information-ForcingApproach to the Motion to Dismiss. Here’s the abstract:This article proposes a new approach…
Chicago IP Litigation
Limited Jurisdictional Discovery Ordered Despite Overbroad Requests
Addition & Detoxification Institute, LLC v. Rapid Drug Detox Center, No. 11 C 7992, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Oct. 11, 2012) (Coleman, J.). Judge Coleman granted in part plaintiff ADI’s…
The Trade Secret Litigator
AllianceBernstein, L.P. v. Atha: Ex-Employee Required to Turn Over iPhone for Inspection by Trial Court in Trade Secret Dispute
By John Marsh
AllianceBernstein, L.P. v. Atha: Ex-Employee Required to Turn Over iPhone for Inspection by Trial Court in Trade Secret Dispute
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Discovery and Privilege in Legal Malpractice Settings
In legal malpractice litigation there is always the "prior" or "defendant" attorney and usually a "successor" attorney. What discovery may entail between them, and what portion of the successor's file…