Earlier this month, a Pennsylvania federal court held that plaintiffs in a contractual-dispute matter must reimburse the defendants, who prevailed on summary judgment, for all costs that the defendants incurred in the production of e-discovery. Now that’s a hammer! More on this decision and how it might apply in an…
By now, hopefully, you’ve read my post “How Facebook Can Make Or Break Your Case.” I wrote it primarily for my fellow members of the defense bar. So, if you haven’t yet read it, and you generally represent employers, shame on you! Stop reading this and go read it now.…
I love the last week of the year. Most people take vacation. Not me. When work is slow, I like to be in the office. It’s when the office gets crazy that I take my vacation, because I know there is always someone else around to shoulder the burden. I’m…
I am not related to Carnac the Magnificent. Several months ago, when I posted How Facebook Can Make or Break Your Case, I offered a series of tips about how attorneys representing companies can use Facebook to sleuth out some A-1 information about employee-plaintiffs. Well, it seems attorneys…
Over at Texas Lawyer, Mike Maslanka has a short, but very important post about a recent case out of the