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Litigation
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Employment & Labor
EEOC Hit With Spoliation Sanctions For Conduct Constituting “Negligence, If Not Gross Negligence”
By Gerald L. Maatman Jr. and Howard M. Wexler In employment litigation, like in any other lawsuit, the duty to preserve potentially relevant information and documents is an affirmative obligation…
Workforce Bulletin
Not in My Backyard: Bringing Claims Against Employees In the Corporate HQ’s Home State May Not Be as Easy As You Think
By Epstein Becker Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
By Nancy L. Gunzenhauser and Ian Carleton Schaefer How can an employee of a national employer not “work” where her employer works? How can such an employee not be subject…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
GUEST BLOG: eDiscovery Copying Costs Not Recovered
By Peter Vogel
BARRY BARNETT GUEST BLOGGER Barry Barnett has been a Guest Blogger in the past, his Blawgletter provides great thoughts, and insights. I read his blogs regularly. Over the years Barry…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Hubbard on A Theory of Pleading, Litigation, and Settlement
By Robin Effron
William H. J. Hubbard (University of Chicago) has posted A Theory of Pleading, Litigation, and Settlement to SSRN.Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal are the most important…
Law School: Success and Careers
Litigation: It Doesn't Always Go As Planned – Plan On It
By philipa-guzmanesq-lawschoolsuccessandcareers-blog
Jim Carrey in "Liar, Liar" When counseling law students about what areas of practice to enter, or at least consider, the conversation always leads to personality and whether or not…
Boom: The ERISA Law Blog
ERISA: Good News — Supreme Court Enforces Suit Limitations Provision
By Mike Reilly
Are those three year suit limitations provisions in ERISA-governed long term disability plans enforceable? YES! Here's today's case, Heimeshoff v Hartford Life & Accident Insurance Co., __ U.S. __ (December…
Law People
Sharpening Our Prediction Skills
By Ronda Muir
The Lawyer’s Global Litigation Top 50 2013 annual survey of senior in-house UK lawyers has found that projected litigation costs provided by counsel to their corporate clients were off by as much…
Food Poison Journal
E. coli Lawsuit Filed in San Francisco
By Bill Marler
As of November 19, 2013, a total of 32 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from four states. The number of ill persons…
PrawfsBlawg
JOTWELL: Erbsen on Kaplow on multistage adjudication
Main Wednesday, November 20, 2013JOTWELL: Erbsen on Kaplow on multistage adjudicationThe new essay on JOTWELL's Courts Law comes from Allan Erbsen (Minnesota), reviewing Louis Kaplow's Multistage Adjudication (Harv. L. Rev.).…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Commentary on Chair White’s Speech on “The Importance of Trials to the Law and Public Accountability”
Recently, I reported on Chair White's speech on “The Importance of Trials to the Law and Public Accountability.” Mike Koehler of the FCPA Professor Blog offers some interesting and thoughtful commentary.