E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 16, 2025

It was great to hear that my friend, Phil Favro, recently opened his own law firm— Favro Law PLLC —where he offers a wide array of services, including as a Special Master, counselor on ESI and discovery issues, as well as mediation and expert witness services. Phil combines all of the attributes of someone you’d like to work with.

Discovery

Planet Depos

JULY 2, 2025

Large cases involve many moving parts – tight deadlines, fast-paced and ever-evolving schedules, seas of exhibits, rosters of witnesses, etc., Realtime Reporting Realtime court reporting is cool technology paired with awe-inducing skill.

Exhibits

Complex Discovery

JUNE 10, 2025

The early 2000s witnessed record highs, with 4,926 filings in 2000 during the dot-com boom, followed by a post-9/11 contraction to just over 1,000 filings by 2003. Investment in integration technologies for secure system consolidation and data migration will become increasingly valuable as transaction volumes stabilize.

Government and Public Sector

Complex Discovery

JUNE 8, 2025

This unique background positions ComplexDiscovery to provide valuable insights for conflict-related investigations and litigation, where understanding the interplay of technology, data, and geopolitical factors is crucial. The air and missile domain witnessed one of the heaviest assaults in recent months. strategic objectives.

Objections

E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 9, 2024

31, 2024), the intermediate appellate court addressed an important issue of authentication of surveillance video by a lay witness. That witness was permitted to authenticate a video under the silent witness theory. The Appeals Court disagreed and affirmed, applying the silent witness doctrine. State, 487 Md.

Witnesses

E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 6, 2025

In In Re: Uber Technologies, Inc. For some of the prior history of Uber Technologies , please see: ESI Protocol Dispute Modern Attachments and the Humpty Dumpty Issue (Apr. The Uber Technologies decision addressed three hyperlink issues and one email threading issue. Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation , 2025 WL 678543 (Mar.

Technology

Attorney at Work

JANUARY 4, 2022

In December 2021, Dave Ries, a frequent co-presenter with the authors, wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity portion of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report. We have borne witness to the chaos and panic that ensues after a cyber incident or a full-blown data breach, and it isn’t pretty. What We Learned in 2021.

Technology

Attorney at Work

MAY 9, 2024

With the shift toward remote collaboration, we're witnessing a significant shift from the traditional “pen-holder" approach to document management to a more dynamic and collaborative method of co-authoring legal documents.

Witnesses

Law Sites

JULY 9, 2024

A cardiologist with a background in medical technology, computer science and artificial intelligence has launched a product for legal professionals and physician expert witnesses that targets the tedious task of reviewing and analyzing thousands of pages of medical records.

Witnesses

Law Sites

MARCH 12, 2024

Proxiio says that it offers customers legal services delivered by a team of skilled lawyers with deep knowledge and experience in areas such as managed review, litigation and investigation, e-discovery, witness preparation, claims evaluation, data subject access requests (DSARs), contracts, and compliance management. Leading U.S.

Litigation

Attorney at Work

JULY 16, 2021

The videographer will not only manage the logistics of recording the proceeding, but will also “ensure that a video deposition is properly recorded with established procedures to go on or off the record, limit noise and interruptions, address technical glitches, and frame the camera view on the witness” (cited from decision above).

Depositions

IP Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2023

Innovation Over Assisting Foreign Adversaries,” which focused on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) agreement on a waiver of IP rights for COVID-19 vaccine technologies under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) last June.

Witnesses

IP Watchdog

JULY 23, 2024

International Trade Commission” (ITC), featuring four witnesses, most of whom were advocating for reforms to the current ITC process that many would characterize as anti-patent. The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet today held a hearing, titled “IP Litigation and the U.S.

Witnesses

IP Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2022

District Court for the Western District of Texas to transfer a case brought by CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd against Apple to the Northern District of California.

Witnesses

Attorney at Work

AUGUST 6, 2021

Technology Infrastructure and Security. To ensure that trainees don’t get left behind, law firms will again need to turn to technology — specifically, tools that make knowledge readily accessible despite a partially remote setup. Such recordings will allow them to witness how deals are made firsthand.

Legal Services

IP Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2023

On the same day, speakers on the final panel of IPWatchdog’s AI Masters discussed many of the same issues addressed in the hearing, with the overwhelming takeaway across both panels being that the United States needs a new plan when it comes to IP protection in cutting-edge technology sectors, where China is increasingly outpacing U.S.

Witnesses

IP Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Following United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal’s December 2022 precedential decision that Patent Quality Assurance (PQA) abused the inter partes review (IPR) process in its case against VLSI Technology, PQA has filed a petition seeking mandamus relief in the matter with the U.S.

Witnesses

IP Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Monday granted Patent Quality Assurance’s (PQA’s) motion to dismiss its January 24 petition for a writ of mandamus asking the CAFC to restore it as a party to its high-profile inter partes review (IPR) proceeding against VLSI Technology.

Witnesses

IP Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

The House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet met today to hear from a number of witnesses about the intersection of intellectual property rights and consumers’ right to repair products they own.

Witnesses

Attorney at Work

JUNE 22, 2022

If it is something that will need a witness signature or attestation, you have to build that into your timeline as well. Another pro tip: Make sure your client and/or their witnesses are available (i.e., not on vacation) around the deadline. If they are going to be out, consider getting an extension.

Witnesses

Expert Witness Blog

APRIL 24, 2025

Strategic Technology Institute, Inc. , 2023), the testimony of a Security Management Expert Witness was pivotal in addressing allegations of copyright infringement and breach of contract related to proprietary security software. The company entered into a distributor agreement with Strategic Technology Institute, Inc.

Witnesses

E-Discovery LLC

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

26(a) initial disclosures, “which do not identify a single corporate witness by name, much less the subject(s) of information possessed by each witness,” were inadequate. In my words, the Kinnee court denied a joint motion to approve an ESI Protocol because the defendants’ Fed.R.Civ.P. 5, 2024), where the court in Orlando Health, Inc.

Discovery

The Cloud Court Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Dear Litigation Friends: It is with regret that I write to inform you that you are a profoundly unreliable witness. You’re an unreliable witness to the depositions you took and you’re an unreliable witness to the depositions you defended. If you take or defend witnesses with any frequency, you know this to be true.

Witnesses

IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The panel began with a discussion of a law review article written by Baylor law student, Matthew Vitale, which analyzed the witness lists of tried cases that were transferred from Texas to either the Northern or Central District of California and the Western District of Washington.

Litigation

Complex Discovery

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Editor’s Note: As the Russo-Ukrainian Wars large-scale phase enters its 1,018th day, the battlefield remains a dynamic and unforgiving theater of strategic maneuvering and technological innovation. Ukrainian Resilience and Technological Innovations Ukrainian forces, however, have maintained their resilience.

Technology

E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 16, 2025

The Court entered one that would conditionally preclude defendants from calling certain witnesses unless they could demonstrate that the witness had not sent or received responsive emails. The history of e-discovery shows that applying traditional rules to emerging technological advances produces, at best, disparate results.

Discovery

WA Bar News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURE It was the Work Group’s impression that many litigants tactically withhold discovery of testifying expert witnesses on the ground that no disclosure is required until a case schedule deadline. To illustrate the proper use of a privilege objection, a request for witness statements might call for work product.

Depositions

IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2023

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held a hearing today featuring a panel of patent-savvy witnesses to underscore the crucial role intellectual property plays in the U.S. economy and to define the biggest threats to IP rights, both foreign and domestic.

Witnesses

IP Watchdog

MAY 17, 2023

The witnesses included three artists, a professor, and an attorney with varying perspectives on the matter, although the artists all expressed similar concerns about the potentially dire effects of generative AI (GAI) applications on their respective industries and careers.

Witnesses

The Cloud Court Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Are you dubiously intrigued by deposition services without stenographers who are just using digital court reporting technology? Examples abound: A sensitive case has a young child for a witness whose voice is too soft to pick up. But any human or technology purists , if they exist, are arguing the wrong question.

Technology

Complex Discovery

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Industry News – eDiscovery Beat From Evidence to Misinformation: Courts Brace for Deepfake Challenges ComplexDiscovery Staff As deepfake technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and accessible, courts are now facing unprecedented challenges in distinguishing authentic evidence from AI-generated fabrications.

Evidence

IP Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property met today to hear from six witnesses about a recently-proposed bill to curb unauthorized uses via artificial intelligence (AI) of an individual’s voice and likeness.

Witnesses

The Cloud Court Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

And back in the day, that was “gee-whiz” technology! Let alone identify testimony uttered by only adverse witnesses. Or only from an aligned witness or by witnesses of a specific type (fact, expert, corporate, etc.). Or only from an aligned witness or by witnesses of a specific type (fact, expert, corporate, etc.).

Depositions

Lawmatics

AUGUST 8, 2023

The AI Disclaimer The legal profession tends to resist technological advancements, such as generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard, with immediate talk of bans and warnings of ethical violations. Generative AI's application is no longer a technological novelty; it's a strategic game-changer. Similarly, Smith.ai

Legal Research

Complex Discovery

JULY 13, 2024

Helsing’s technology has already caught the attention of major defense players. Co-CEO and Co-Founder Gundbert Scherf emphasized the importance of technology in modern defense, particularly in light of current geopolitical tensions. ” This surge in funding reflects broader trends in the defense technology sector.

Technology

IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

AMD)’s motion to strike Realtek’s witness from testifying at an upcoming evidentiary hearing.

Witnesses

The Cloud Court Blog

JULY 11, 2023

Privacy and security enabled eDiscovery technology and services will play a central role in organizations as they strive to keep their data secure. Robust e-discovery technology, supported by expertise and services, helps organizations respond to litigation, compliance and investigation demands. Empower your own witnesses?

Discovery