Sentences with phrase «decisions about their litigation»

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(2) Bringing this case into court for litigation may be unusual but is not surprising; and (3) The concern about political influence in making this decision is an unfortunate cost of candidate and President Trump's disregard for the institutions of justice.

In light of this increasingly complex litigation, questions have been raised about the ability of judges or juries to make reasoned decisions.

Chicago, IL About Blog Patent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued patents.

Chicago, IL About Blog Patent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued patents.

Video: Eric Hanushek talks with Education Next about the recent Supreme Court decision on school spending in Arizona, and considers the ruling's impact on state school finance litigation.

Chicago, IL About Blog Patent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued patents.

Chicago, IL About Blog Patent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued patents.

Shareholders should grill company decision - makers about the implications of the newly - released internal documents for current and potential litigation against Shell.

It thereby (1) raises questions about reliability, cost, and stranded assets, (2) will lead to an increased deployment of natural gas plants that will freeze out renewables for a decade or more, and (3) imposes legal uncertainty that will cause resistance, litigation, and bad short term decisions.

Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision.

Taylor Wessing has been ordered to disclose information it held about parties involved in litigation, in a landmark Court of Appeal decision on legal professional privilege under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998).

It will be interesting to see what the Supreme Court of Canada says about deference on questions of constitutional law in its decision, expected next year, in the Trinity Western University litigation.

I hope you will still find this blog a useful, interesting source of information and opinion even as I discontinue my high - frequency, granular litigation (and litigation - related antitrust) coverage and focus on select issues, which I'll mostly be able to write about at a time of my choosing, except for some key appellate decisions.

For example, law firm marketing professionals can quickly identify broad litigation trends to inform decisions about where to invest business development resources.

Ten Things about Litigation that Arbitration Critics Won't Tell You by George H. Friedman * The recent uproar over General Mills» decision to adopt and later retract a new policy by which consumers, by engaging in activities such as downloading a recipe, or participating in a contest, or «liking» the firm on Facebook, would unwittingly be...

The entire trajectory of litigation I've followed — except for the first decision — is about one provision of one provincial statute.

«Daily posting of interesting developments about new and pending Section 337 ITC investigations, litigation trends, statistics, practical insights into the Administrative Law Judges, and commentary on important ITC decisions.»

Neither will automation mean an end to litigation, Sir Geoffrey Vos, chancellor of the High Court, said: predictions will never be 100 % correct — and in any case decisions about whether to pursue a case are not always taken by entirely rational people.

The claimant does not have the mental capacity to make his own decision about settlement and should have been represented though a responsible person, acting in the Client's best interests called a «litigation friend».

Our goal is to make the litigation process as easy on our clients as possible so that they can make a rational decision about whether to settle their case or try it, rather than one made solely out of fear.

«Given the charged emotional dynamics of most pieces of estates litigation, an even greater need exists to impose the discipline of the general costs principle of «loser pays» in order to inject some modicum of reasonableness into decisions about whether to litigate estate - related disputes.»

Boards care about the legal implications of major decisions to be made, and they care about material litigation, but as to the internal workings of the law department, they are probably unconcerned.»

One commentator cited an impressive study that shows lawyers tend to be over confident about their positions in litigation and as a result clients can make poor decisions based on lawyers» unrealistic case assessment.

Clients are also getting savvy about the data they have in their systems on past litigation matters and they want to use it in the decision - making process and risk assessment process, says Gordon.

Sam Glover: So we need to take a quick break to hear from our sponsors and when we come back I wan na talk about what happened to HyperLaw after that and maybe spend a little time talking about the impact of that decision, that ordeal, that litigation today.

Jasper takes us through the decision, in particular the way in which the Court dealt with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR, and also puts the Court's reasoning in the context of the overall «Inuit Saga» which brought about already five years of litigation.

CAMPBELL: The difficulty in talking about the big cases, I look at the little cases, and part of my concern is that where you may see some of the court decisions that become problematic for the areas in which you are involved because, think of the companies, and they may be reasonable size but not huge, that don't have an in - house IT person, don't have an in - house counsel and maybe cloud computing for servers, and they have got a major piece of litigation and they don't have a policy.

Mr. White was also recently quoted in an article written about the FDA's decision to review guidelines pertaining to evaporated cane juice and the impact it may have on «all natural» litigation.

We'll still hear a lot from and about the ITC in 2012 (complaints, hearings, recommendations and decisions), but I wouldn't be surprised if some major patent holders now adjusted their litigation strategies and deemphasized ITC complaints in favor of actions in United States district courts as well as foreign courts.

Several years before this litigation ensued, the Corporation's legal counsel published a newsletter about two Ontario Court of Appeal decisions (Nippissing Condominium Corporation No. 4 v. Kilfoyl and Chan v. Toronto Standard Condominium Corporation No. 1834) which clarified the meaning «single family» in the condominium context.

We've barely scratched the surface in terms of statistical and theoretical techniques which can uncover new insights about litigation and judicial decision making.

It concludes by identifying some of the important issues that the Court does not talk about before turning to consider the relevance of these decisions for the ongoing litigation involving Kinder Morgan's TransMountain expansion project (TMX).

Many law firms and corporate legal departments alike are wrestling with the decision about whether to partner with an outside service provider to host their litigation data and litigation software applications or to stick with internal resources for this important litigation support.

Specifically, we now have software tools available that can empower litigators to make better decisions about their cases by having more useful insights at earlier stages in the development of litigation strategy.

Aim: For litigation teams to be able to make informed decisions about strategy and scope through reliable methods based on verified data.

Gain insights about judicial decision - making, law firm performance, strategy outcomes, historic litigation behavior, and more.

In the 2016 costs decision in the case of Jackson v. Mayerle, Justice Pazaratz of the Superior Court of Ontario makes stinging comments about the impact of high conflict litigation on a family of modest means.

In the article entitled, «Take caution with pension committee email ``, Dan and Terra discuss the implications of a recent decision by the Nova Scotia Supreme Court which provides an important reminder to employers and pension plan administrators about the costs and burdens associated with email communications in the context of pension plan litigation.

BENEFITS: • Achievement of 17 % cost savings in their legal department spending since implementing CounselLink ® • Ability to make smarter decisions about how they assign matters to outside counsel, with the use of valuable data for tracking and analyzing the performance of Fred Loya's law firms • Delivery of reports that keep everyone accountable for litigation vs. settlement decisions, time management and other legal spending considerations • Outstanding, ongoing technical support and customer service from LexisNexis • Reliance on this central matter management system for the legal department provides a hub for tracking all matters throughout their lifecycle • Use of the Law Firm Registry feature has become a powerful tool for helping Fred Loya quickly establish working relationships with qualified law firms in particular venues where they have specific needs

It's important to have as much information about the arbitrators» pool as possible when making the decision between arbitration and litigation.

Lex Machina's Legal Analytics for Trademark Litigation enables attorneys and mark owners for the first time to make data - driven decisions about federal trademark case strategy and tactics.

«The knowledge of a fixed fee would provide clarity and reassurance within the litigation and dispute resolution process, enabling them to make a decision about the best way ahead from the outset.»

In the midst of all the prognostications about machine learning and the discovery process, New York - based litigation support provider Empire Discovery announced its adoption of OrcaTec's Document Decision Suite, highlighting its predictive coding capabilities.

Rochester commercial litigation partner and co-chair of the firm's Indian Law and Gaming team David Tennant is quoted in this article about the Justice Department's delay in deciding whether to appeal a decision in a case regarding Mashpee Wampanoag tribal land.

Rochester commercial litigation partner Chris Thomas is quoted in this article about the Monroe County Bar Association's decision to do away with judicial candidate ratings.

The sorts of judicial policies I am thinking about are access to justice, judicial economy and minimization of litigation expense, as explained in leading decisions such as Hryniak, Danyluk and Housen.

Boston Commercial Litigation partners Greg Deschenes and Kurt Mullen, and Boston Government Investigations & White Collar Defense associate Charles Dell «Anno are mentioned as counsel successfully representing the Massachusetts Insurers Insolvency Fund in this article about a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision regarding whether the fund can recover workers» compensation claims.

As a result, in addition to posts about recent and noteworthy legal decisions, this blog will also speak to practical litigation issues that frequently accompany trade secret litigation, consider larger societal and technological trends that affect this area, and, finally and perhaps most importantly, speak to administrative and human resources issues that also arise in this context and that need to be considered to protect trade secrets.

If there is any doubt about which side of the line to fall on when faced with disclosing litigation agreements the outcome in this case (which to some might appear Draconian) should make that decision an easy one.

While there may be debate about the practice of an outside investor covering costs awards, experts» fees, disbursements or even the full expense of the litigation, the relatively few decisions in Canada in this area have all said that there is no prohibition against it.