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What Recent Case Law Tells Us About the Importance of Consumer Surveys in Trademark Cases

IP Watchdog

In each of these opinions, the court noted the absence of survey evidence (or, in the Vital Pharmaceuticals case, the inadequacy of an “almost comically flawed” survey).

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Best Evidence Rule Requires Post-Level Collection for Social Media Evidence

Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

By John Patzakis The Best Evidence Rule, as codified in Federal Rule of Evidence 1002, provides that an original writing, recording, or photograph is required to prove the contents of the document. A case out of the federal courts in Texas addressed this issue head on.

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Westlaw Precision: Next-Generation Legal Research With a Human Touch

Attorney at Work

. “To enable more precision in search, we added more than 250 new attorney editors to mark up and classify case law in more useful ways for our customers.”

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“Boilerplate” Objections Are Generally Condemned; Except When They’re Not

E-Discovery LLC

Plaintiffs correctly note that this is a boilerplate objection, and that some case law discourages the use of boilerplate objections such as these. … It is replaced by the direct statement that “Information within this scope of discovery need not be admissible in evidence to be discoverable.” Mayflower Textile Servs.

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An Estimated 500,000 Litigation Matters Involved Social Media Evidence in the Past 12 Months

Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

By John Patzakis As we have mentioned many times, nearly every litigation matter involves social media evidence. If your case does not feature such important evidence, it is likely because you are not looking for it. Similarly, you have put some effort to tune into the torrential rivers of social media evidence.

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Why You Should Read the South Carolina Evidence Handbook Annotated

The Barrister

The average trial lawyer will deal with evidence. As sure as the sun will rise, water is wet, evidence will play an issue at least once in every trial lawyer’s life. After all, evidence is a brutal subject in law school. South Carolina Bar Law students can access South Carolina Evidence Handbook Annotated by two methods.

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Unprecedented Discovery Data Volume in FTX Case Highlights Growing Need for AI

Hanzo Blog

In the ongoing case of Sam Bankman-Fried and his failed crypto exchange FTX, the growing volume of evidence highlights the new landscape of ediscovery challenges when it comes to the breadth of new data sources showing up in corporate litigation.