Posts Tagged ‘eDiscovery’
Four Best Practices for Remote Depositions
According to a recent Thomson Reuters report on trends and benchmarking, one of the highest priorities for firms and legal departments in 2018 was controlling litigation costs. Many organizations see remote depositions as a cost-effective, efficient strategy for achieving this objective and streamlining the discovery process. However, your task doesn’t end when you make the…
Read MoreDon’t Let the Clawback Bite Back: The Necessary Steps for Creating an Effective Clawback Agreement
Litigators construct clawback agreements that allow parties to retrieve important documents without having client-attorney privileges revoked. But the successful retrieval of documents is only possible when clawback agreements are prepared properly.
Read MoreWill AI Help or Hurt Legal Professionals?
When an industry is confronted with a new technology that seeks to improve the efficiency of tasks, the workers of that industry are naturally inclined to feel concerned about how that technology may disrupt the way the industry runs. Currently, artificial intelligence (AI) in litigation is transforming the profession through automation of such time-consuming tasks…
Read MoreU.S. IPR Patent Review Process Legality Has Been Upheld
Houston-based oilfield services company Oil States International, Inc. challenged the legality of inter partes review (IPR), a patent review process that allows the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to hold hearings with patent challengers and patent holders to determine the validity of a patent. The company argued that IPR violated the right of defendants…
Read MoreAOB lawsuits compound agony of Florida hurricanes
Assignment of benefits started out as a convenience for Florida residents [but]…has become a vehicle for fraud and claim build-up by some vendors.”
State Farm Florida spokesperson Michal Brower via Insurance Journal.
Read MoreSecurity perils continue to haunt law firms and clients
Law firms are investing more money in information security these days because their clients are effectively demanding it.
More than 2 in 5 lawyers (41 percent) recently interviewed by Robert Half Legal were planning to spend more on information security-related tools and services in the next 12 months.
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