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HSR Transactions Reach 218 in August 2024: What It Means for eDiscovery

Complex Discovery

For instance, the retail sector may scale back legal spending in response to declining consumer confidence, limiting their ability to manage compliance and litigation efficiently.

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June 2024 HSR Transactions, Economic Indicators, and Their Impact on eDiscovery

Complex Discovery

For example, the retail sector may face reduced legal spending during periods of declining consumer spending, impacting their ability to manage compliance and litigation effectively. Significant legal investments may be delayed or scaled back, directly affecting eDiscovery spending.

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4 Strategies for Preventing and Handling Frivolous Lawsuits

Lawmatics

Unlike the average small business, however, they are the world’s largest retailer and have the means to defend themselves. Walmart’s reputation has been notoriously tarnished as they receive an average of 20 whopping lawsuits a day, totaling about 5,000 a year.

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Strobel v. Johnson & Johnson: Got a Hearsay Problem? Don't Give Up.

Evidence at Trial

But with hearsay having so many exceptions, the most obvious objection may not be the most effective. But Strobel is important reading because it illustrates that even when Sanchez applies ( i.e. , a hearsay objection is sustained), you need to have a "Plan B" in mind. A sustained objection isn’t necessarily a dead end.

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Racing Against Winter: Russia’s Escalating Offensive in Kursk Oblast

Complex Discovery

Donetsk Focus: Impact of Kursk Offensive on Other Fronts The Russian military’s preoccupation with Kursk Oblast has affected its broader operational objectives, particularly in Donetsk Oblast. This lays the analytical foundation for understanding the reasons for particular developments and fulfilling their assigned research objectives.

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Litigators with a Data Fetish: Moneyballing Testimony

The Cloud Court Blog

Using tools such as AI and Machine Learning, among others, we can extract question and answer pairs, analyzing the questions asked, the answers provided, the objections made and not made, documents used and re-used and not used at all, and the types of witnesses those documents are put in front of. So would industrial espionage.

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The Legal Singularity and the Future of Legal Research – Benjamin Alarie and Abdi Aidid (TGIR Ep. 193)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Of course, I should add that there’s sort of long tail potential here, which is, you and I, in our sort of retail sense, having a real time sense of our legal rights and obligations. And then now it just actually expands the number of things that I could object to. And I think it’s going to be a feature of the system for a long time.