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

E-Discovery LLC

27, 2024), “boilerplate” objections were sustained on the specific facts presented. BOILERPLATE OBJECTIONS HAVE GENERALLY BEEN CONDEMNED Boilerplate objections have generally been condemned. See General Objections, Dracula, and “Whac a Mole” (Apr. In Jacobs v. The Journal Publishing Co., 2024 WL 4333199 (D. at 190, 192.

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Patent Damages Laws Regarding Apportionment are Inapplicable to Breach of Contract (FRAND) Claims

IP Watchdog

In a previous article, we discussed the difference between a reasonable royalty for patent infringement and a FRAND licensing rate, both in terms of their origins and objectives: the former being a creature of statute and case law that seeks to compensate a patent owner for infringement, whereas the latter is rooted in contract and seeks, amongst other (..)

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What Judges are really saying about Technology Assisted Review

Discovery Advocate

But while courts would not force parties to utilize TAR, at least one court noted that TAR was a proven option that “should be seriously considered for use in large-data volume cases where it may save the producing party (or both parties) significant amounts of legal fees in document review.”

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Project Management Tools for Attorneys

Attorney at Work

Offering a legal service is, of course, quite different from developing a new disinfectant, or building a software application or a material object. In contrast, when I was in practice we would print all of our cases, annotate them at the top, throw them in a folder and look through all these files.”

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Another Approach to Drafting and Discovery of Litigation Hold Notices

E-Discovery LLC

Defendants objected. Renewed Motion Gets Court to Grant Request for Defendant to Produce Hold Letters: eDiscovery Case Law – eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin (Mar. 23, 2020)(discussing Radiation Oncology ).

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Possession, Custody, or Control of Responsive Information by States Suing Meta

E-Discovery LLC

1] The States and State Attorneys General “object[ed] to treating their respective state agencies as being subject to party discovery and insist[ed] that all of these agencies are third parties from whom Meta should seek documents by subpoenas under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45.”

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Does Every “Hit” on a “Hit Report” Have to be Produced?

E-Discovery LLC

9, 2024); eDiscovery Assistant’s 2022 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review Report (Mar. Privilege Objections Denied Without Prejudice (Nov. . _ [1] For additional information related to these issues, see How to Avoid Contentious “Hit Report” Problems (Jan. 4, 2023); How to Avoid Contentious “Hit Report” Problems – Part III (Nov.

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