Sentences with phrase «litigation holds do»

It may be that Vaporstream's talk around spoliation is evolving, since I could not find within their current FAQs what was referenced by the Browning article, and what the Wayback Machine shows is a rather bold claim that preservation obligations and litigation holds do not apply.

Not exact matches

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The only way to hold automotive companies accountable is through aggressive litigation and we intend to do just that with this case.»

The categories that we were short - listed for this year were: · Property and Construction Team of the Year; and · Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year This year's official awards ceremony was held at The Westin Mina Seyahi, in Dubai on 15 May 2014 and although we did not win awards this time around, it was a privilege to be shortlisted for our role in some of the region's most prestigious work.

Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund, No. 15 - 1439, holding that the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 did not strip state courts of jurisdiction to adjudicate class actions alleging only violations of the Securities Act of 1933 or authorize removing such actions from state court.

The court held that a criminal investigation could not be considered litigation in this context, as a criminal investigation did not always result in a criminal prosecution.

Having contact in key departments so you can go — rather than, on a Friday afternoon, panicking — because you have to immediately put a litigation hold in place and you have no idea how to do it.

In subsequent litigation the judge held, inter alia, that the claimant was entitled to an indemnity from the defendant in respect of those sums properly sought by HSJ and that the notices served by NCP pursuant to s 17 (2) of LT (C) A 1995 did not comply with s 17.

Last week, the SCOTUS held that unions representing public employees can collect litigation costs as part of a compulsory fee authorized under state law, even if the litigation does not directly involve the collective bargaining unit.

Instituting a litigation hold at the outset of litigation (or even before) is one of the most important things an attorney can do for their clients, especially with the increase in spoliation motions in the last couple years, and after Zubulake.

It held that a litigation funding agreement did not violate the rule against champerty and maintenance and indeed helped to provide access to justice to the plaintiff.

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Civil litigation also helps victims and their families obtain and sense of justice and it gives them the satisfaction of having done their part to hold the wrongdoers accountable and ensure that others are not victimized in the same manner.

Our representation of the noteholders in bankruptcy court litigation led to a confirmed plan under which our clients received (i) the opportunity to buy Energy Future Holdings» regulated utility Oncor and convert its parent into a real estate investment trust (REIT), and (ii) a down - side recovery, along with other unsecured creditors, of US$ 550 million in the event the transaction did not close.

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It was held that the subject matter of the direction was covered by both litigation privilege and legal professional privilege, and the court did not have power to override them.

Well, lo and behold, I didn't get any DLA Piper bills, but I did recently get the next best thing — bills from a litigation case that involves the Big Law firm of Lowenstein & Sandler, in a no - holds - barred cage fight with none other than DLA Piper.

Looking more closely at billing rates for this firm size shows that this result is the effect of two factors: partners doing IP Litigation work have held their rates flat and that work has shifted to more junior partners from more senior partners (see Figure 6).

«Don't assume your outside counsel is fluent in social media,» said Michelle Sherman, senior corporate counsel for litigation at Farmers Group Inc., during a panel discussion about social media and the importance of including it in a litigation hold at the Association of Corporate Counsel's annual meeting in Boston yesterday.

Suppliers that don't can be held in contempt of court and possibly jailed, but that provision is difficult or in some cases, impossible to enforce abroad, according to Lou Brzezinski, a partner in Blaney McMurtry's commercial litigation group.

Korean law does not impose document - hold obligations on parties that may be facing litigation or prosecution.

The spate of U.S. litigation should prompt Canadian employers to mull over the following obvious questions: Do plan fees hold up against a benchmark of fees charged by other plans?

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.

If an injury does occur at your rented home, you might end up being held responsible for financial losses incurred by the victim, such as medical bills, lost wages, and even legal fees if the case goes into litigation.

By enacting the «gatekeeper» and venue provisions, the bill begins to address the flaws in the patent litigation system that allow patent abusers, companies that do not produce or invent anything, to force our country's most innovative companies to divert billions of dollars away from innovation and job creation into litigation costs and hold - up settlements.

Does your background screening program hold up against the threats of regulation, legislation, and litigation?

So the Buyer or Seller on the occasion of the agreement becoming null and void want to do one of two things in respect of deposits: return it or hold subject to possible litigation.