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Insurance Company, Defense Firm Sued over Facebook Hacking

This isn't a typical "dog bites girl" story.

Nevada Decision Highlights Text Message Authentication Issues

The decision notes the care that must be taken during pretrial discovery to ensure that text messages can be properly authenticated at trial.

Va. Court Gets Jump on Federal "Celebrity" Predictive Coding Cases

A Virginia circuit court is beating two others to the punch when it comes to cases involving predictive coding.

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When to Swear and When to Declare: Affidavit or Declaration?

By Matthew J. Bakota

In the "real world" practice of law, affidavits are used more than one might expect.

NY Appellate Court Adopts Federal E-Evidence Preservation Standard

By Yitzchak Fogel

The Appellate Division, First Department, has become the first New York appellate court to adopt the standard for spoliation originally established in Zubulake.

A Model Order Regarding E-Discovery in Patent (and Other?) Cases

By Steven R. Trybus and Sara Tonnies Horton

The model order from the Federal Circuit Advisory Council regarding e-discovery in patent cases includes proposals that are dramatically different from the majority of present e-discovery practices.

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Sound Advice: Advice for Young Lawyers

By Betsy Collins

Practicing law for 25 years has given this lawyer the experience necessary to advise young lawyers on what they should and should not be doing as they embark on their legal careers.

Announcements »

New Practice Pointers Page Launches

We are excited to launch our new column, Practice Pointers, in which we will address those hard-to-answer procedural questions that frequently arise in day-to-day practice.

Website Editorial Board

The Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee is seeking authors and editors to serve on its website editorial board.

Winter 2012 E-Newsletter

The latest edition of the committee e-newsletter is now available.