It will expose Intellectual Ventures to massive legal discovery, which could potentially uncover the sensitive secrets of this highly secretive investment firm.
Today, however, computers are beginning to perform legal discovery, making medical diagnoses and even evaluating creative work such as music and screenplays.
Medical malpractice lawyers spare no effort trying to get the details of physician reviews, which in many states are protected from legal discovery under the theory that such discussions must be frank in order to improve medical care.
But a feature of the lawsuit is that even before there has been legal discovery, a process which normally allows a fuller reconstruction of what took place, Mr Bondi has shone light on areas of banking that normally remain obscure.
The power of the brand may well be evidenced by the fact that when I viewed the site within the past hour, a highly respected legal electronic discovery vendor was advertising in the headline banner.
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Legal Departments must adopt a coherent approach to e-Discovery such as a unified legal repository that meets its needs across the enterprise and under one umbrella.
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The rapidly changing e-Discovery landscape offers Legal Departments a wide variety of technology solutions to tackle the issues related thereto.
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The police probes and legal maneuvers responding to the discovery are quickly becoming a tangled web -- much like the complex supply chain of the meat products themselves.
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Because the volume of data stored by e-discovery vendors for a single legal matter is not the same as the value that the client derives.
But even after Eliot Spitzer brandished the chain of e-mails he dug up, corporations seem blithely unaware of the legal damage that can be wrought in electronic discovery.
All his Legal Aid cases were "emergencies, " with no discovery period to interview witnesses before their hearings.
Among other accusations, Neuheisel's attorney said the NCAA failed to provide Neuheisel's legal team with an updated version of its bylaws during discovery.
John Jessen, president of Seattle-based Electronic Evidence Discovery, says his business helping litigants discover legal evidence doubled in 1997, and doubled again in 1998.
The Eastern District's so-called rocket docket "gives defendants little opportunity to engage in discovery that might invalidate weak patents, " complains legal scholar Theodore Frank in an American Enterprise Institute paper.
Federal judges in several jurisdictions, including Kaplan, have indicated they agree with at least some of those arguments by ordering extensive discovery against the plaintiffs including the forced disclosure of legal documents that normally would be covered by the attorney-client privilege.
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First, can they leverage the efficiencies thereof while still meeting their legal obligations to conduct a reasonable search for responsive documents under the federal discovery rules?
The cases will go through a discovery process, evidence will be sifted, and objective long-standing legal standards will be applied as with any other non-sport case of nondisclosure in the employment context.
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