Key Discovery Points: A Judicial Approach to Handling AI-Generated Evidence
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The Three C’s for Addressing Prior Inconsistent Statements
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Key Discovery Points: Navigating Clawbacks When In-House Counsel Are Included
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Key Discovery Points: If You Dispose of Relevant Hard Drives You Will Face (Some) Consequences
Key Discovery Point: Collecting Hyperlinked File Versions – Contemporaneous or “As Sent”?
eDiscovery Case Law Podcast: How Failing to Meet and Confer Effectively Can Lead to Sanctions
Podcast - The 3 Core Themes of Trial Law: Know Your Court
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 306: Spotlight on Civil Procedure (Part 3 – The Civil Lawsuit)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 305: Spotlight on Civil Procedure (Part 2 – Discovery)
A Less is More Strategy for Data Risk Mitigation
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 304: Spotlight on Civil Procedure (Part 1 – Jurisdiction)
All in the Family: What’s Next for Cloud Attachments in eDiscovery?
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 303: Listen and Learn -- Injunctions and Restraining Orders (Civ Pro)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 302: Listen and Learn -- More on Discovery (Civ Pro)
Requesting Cloud Data from Third Parties? Here’s What Every Litigator Needs to Know About the SCA
The 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, once told a captivated audience that ”Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”...more
Litigation against banks and other financial services firms is always evolving. This mid-year 2025 update discusses trends from recent case filings and decisions and highlights the importance of awareness of new legal...more
Are you feeling “left behind” or possibly irrelevant because you’ve yet to integrate artificial intelligence into your law firm’s operations? You could easily feel that way after reading the 2025 Future of Professionals...more
On May 23, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court redetermined the method for calculating the maximum allowable interest for commercial loans under Chapter 306 of the Texas Finance Code. The decision is a radical change in how...more
Two days apart, two judges in the Northern District of California decided on summary judgment that two examples of using copyrighted works to train AI models were transformative, and ultimately fair use under US copyright...more
In a closely watched decision issued on June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Trump v. CASA, Inc., No. 24A884, that federal district courts lacked authority to issue universal (nationwide) injunctions...more
Last week, the Court of Appeals of Virginia issued a significant 24-page opinion in David Tidwell, et al. v. Kenneth. M Goldsmith, et al., Record No. 0629-24-1 and Record No. 0666-24-1, in consolidated cases concerning the...more
On 1 July 2025, the Hague Convention of July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (the “Convention”) came into force in the UK. The Convention allows civil and commercial...more
Preparing for a deposition can be challenging whether it is a person’s first or hundredth time testifying under oath. Being questioned frequently causes anxiety. But the experience does not have to be so daunting with...more
Morrison Foerster partners Kate Driscoll and Nate Mendell, both former federal prosecutors and members of the firm’s Investigations + White Collar Defense Group, hosted the tenth episode of When Your Life Sciences Are on the...more
Case: Stenson Tamaddon LLC v. IRS, No. CV-24-01123-PHX-SPL, 2025 WL 1725942 (D. Ariz. June 20, 2025) On June 20, 2025, the US District Court for the District of Arizona denied a motion for summary judgment that was filed...more
A Florida Appeals court ruled that specific findings are required in mortgage foreclosure summary judgments – generic orders are not sufficient. Lenders and foreclosure attorneys must provide detailed, record-based...more
On Friday, June 27, the Supreme Court held that so-called universal injunctions (sometimes called nationwide injunctions) likely exceed federal courts’ equitable authority as granted by the Judiciary Act of 1789. The Court...more
Fresh off its April 17, 2025 decision in Cunningham v. Cornell University, the US Supreme Court is setting the stage to delve back into ERISA issues next Term. On Monday, the Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit...more
On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in a 6-3 decision in Trump v. Casa, that federal courts lack the authority to issue nationwide injunctions under the Judiciary Act of 1789 (Judiciary Act). In doing so, the Court...more
The Ninth Circuit has now joined a growing number of appellate courts holding that, in Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective actions, personal jurisdiction must be determined on a claim-by-claim basis when general...more
In the context of asset recovery, a successful outcome largely depends on the ability of a claimant to garner sufficient disclosure of assets that are amenable to enforcement. This, in turn, explains why the powerful...more
On June 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated a removal order, holding that a naturalized U.S. citizen could not be deported following denaturalization for fraud, where he failed to disclose a recent...more
On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court decided Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services and held that a "majority group" plaintiff in a Title VII case need not satisfy a heightened evidentiary burden to establish a prima-facie...more
The Supreme Court issued its landmark decision limiting the use of universal injunctions last month, with the majority relying largely on originalist principles to support its decision. Trump v. CASA, Inc., et al., No. 24A884...more
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has ruled that the Department of Homeland Security Secretary exceeded her authority when announcing the early termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for...more
A set of recently issued memoranda by United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) officials has re-energized the debate around discretionary denials in post-grant trials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”)....more
On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision on review of three federal court orders that have blocked—on a nationwide basis—implementation of President Trump’s executive order restricting so-called “birthright...more
In our previous article titled Fraud Cases: Hong Kong Court’s Jurisdiction on the Grant of Vesting Orders, our team discussed the remedy of vesting orders in providing relief to victims of internet fraud in recovering their...more
The 2025 biennial session of the Texas Legislature brought changes to the Texas Business Court that was created in 2023. With the passage of House Bill 40 (HB 40), the legislature expanded the Business Court’s jurisdiction to...more
