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Why Use Technology in Arbitration for Document Production & Expert Review

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Document production is becoming more common in arbitration today. Reliance on experts and other evidence to build and support a case has been and continues to be inevitable. Time and time again we see spiralling costs because...more

A&O Shearman

Changing expert witness only allowed on disclosure of previous expert’s views

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The English court does not like expert shopping. If a party seeks permission to change its expert, the court is likely to order disclosure of documents evidencing the previous expert’s views as the ‘price’ of the change, even...more

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New Federal Court Guidelines for Complex Proceedings consolidate and update previous guidelines

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Update: The Federal Court updated the Guidelines on May 18, 2021, which can be found here. The Federal Court has released a new consolidated practice direction, Case and Trial Management Guidelines for Complex...more

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Attorney Work-Product Protection for Taxpayer Information Used to Prepare an Expert Witness Report

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held that in-house counsel's legal memos used to prepare an expert witness were partially protected from disclosure as attorney work product. In the course of an income...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

PTAB Orders Production of Raw Data and Instructions Underlying Test Results

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently issued an Order that illustrates the circumstances in which a party may obtain additional discovery in an inter partes review (IPR). In Apple Inc. v. Singapore Asahi Chemical...more

White & Case LLP

The ADGM Arbitration Guidelines: bridging the procedural divide between civil and common law arbitrations

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On 17 September 2019, the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Arbitration Centre launched the ADGM Arbitration Guidelines. The ADGM Arbitration Guidelines have been developed to provide end-users of arbitration, practitioners, and...more

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Be Wary When Seeking to Protect Communications With the Work Product Privilege

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While the attorney-client privilege only protects confidential communications between an attorney and client that are for the purpose of giving or receiving legal advice, the work product doctrine, as codified in Fed. R. Civ....more

Carlton Fields

Court Rejects Defendant’s Objections To Subpoenas As Untimely And Baseless In Fraudulent Transfer Default Judgment Spat

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In a dispute previously reported on this blog, the Southern District of California overruled a defendant’s objections to subpoenas served on a former expert witness in defendant’s unrelated divorce case and to a bank for...more

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5 Tips to Avoid the In-House Expert Trap in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

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You are defending your client, a company engaged in complex scientific or technical work. As you head to trial, you have a tough decision to make. The client has employees and consultants with the knowledge and expertise to...more

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Ontario Court of Appeal Clarifies Parameters of Communications with Expert Witnesses

The Court of Appeal for Ontario’s January 29, 2015 decision in Moore v. Getahun (Moore) has confirmed that there is nothing improper in counsel reviewing a draft report with an expert witness, and that draft expert reports...more

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