By: Lenor Marquis Segal Congratulations: you have a new job with a new firm and your client with the “e-Discovery case” wants to come with you, the only “e-Discovery” expert lawyer that it trusts to represent it. But it may not be as simple as throwing the case in your pack […]
Stephen D. Feldman By: Stephen Feldman and Erin Blondel In commercial contracts, forum-selection clauses have become ubiquitous. Those clauses, after all, bring certainty. When litigation actually ensues, however, a party might regret agreeing to the forum in the clause. Imagine if that litigant files suit in a different forum. Can the other party enforce […]
Matthew W. Sawchak Ellis & Winters partner Matt Sawchak was recently interviewed by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly as an expert on civil procedure. The article, “Court of Appeals Takes Up Issue of Collateral Estoppel,” addresses a new decision in which the North Carolina Court of Appeals chose a test to govern one element of issue preclusion (which […]
By Lenor Marquis Segal, Scott Meyers, and Diane Rupprecht In cases involving large amounts of electronically stored information (ESI), those of us at mid-sized or smaller firms may sometimes feel a little out-gunned when the requests for production and documents start flying. While David beat Goliath with just one stone, supposedly he […]