Early on May 1, 2012: Before the attacks of September 11, 2001, many Americans may have been willing to agree that one person’s terrorist was another person’s freedom fighter. Certainly, I remember being moved by the politics and the philosophy of the Irish Republican Army members accused of gun running during one of the first
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Read the original post on Baker Hostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog. As class certification hearings in labor and employment cases and other types of class action litigation have become more like mini-trials in the wake of recent case law, strategies that used to be applied at the jury trial phase have moved to the class
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We told our 23 mock jurors that they had participated in something historic and it was true. For the first time, DOAR conducted a client-free mock trial. Given our experience in intellectual property and patent disputes, we invented a patent case pertaining to a hypothetical time-release insulin product. The inventors were university-based researchers. The patent’s
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Financial institutions, health care providers and corporations have been mindful of data security and privacy regulations such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and US State Breach Laws for many years. When storage devices get to their end of life and upgrades are made, you can’t simply throw away
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We often hear social scientists – professional and amateur – suggest that today’s society of computer-addicted, gaming, texting, plugged-in citizens is more isolated and less social than our less technological and presumably more conversational predecessors. We hear about the lost art of conversation, and bemoan new skills deficits in interpersonal communication. Some of us have
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Apple and Samsung have quite a history of patent litigation across the globe and in a US case in the Northern District of California (CASE NO. 11-cv-01846-LHK-PSG), Apple’s counsel has recently filed a motion for adverse inference jury instructions due to alleged spoliation of evidence. The highly redacted motion states that Samsung failed to preserve large
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When I first heard about Twitter’s newly proposed patent plan, a few questions came to mind: Who would give up the chance to make significant profit from the creative minds of its employees? What is Twitter thinking? Do they want to just give up the kind of money that puts startups on the map? What
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Jurors in the John Edwards trial may have expected to be inundated with testimony about betrayal and disappointment, but they could hardly have predicted that they would be immersed in a love-drenched soap opera. Here, for instance, is a transcript of a voicemail from John Edwards to his campaign aide, Andrew Young, that was entered
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The cross-linking of trials and the Internet has been a topic of growing concern for some time. Not until now, though, have we seen a defense attorney in an upcoming case rev up social media conversations by being the first to speak. In what appears to be an unprecedented move, Mark O’Mara, attorney for George
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On behalf of DOAR Litigation Consulting, I would like to welcome you to our official blog, OpenDOAR. I very much look forward to sharing the company’s perspective on current legal issues. Experts at DOAR will be commenting and opining on issues as diverse as the current trends in the use of technology during discovery to
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