Litigation

Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions for 'Crashed' Hard Drive
Court Issues Adverse Jury Instruction Where Plaintiff Disposed of Evidence

Recent court rulings in e-discovery.

With a growing number of criminal cases depending on forensic searches of computers, the direction courts ultimately take is likely to affect a wide array of cases, ranging from hacking and piracy to murder investigations.

Keyword-based automated search tools are not necessarily accurate, especially when the search terms are brainstormed by counsel in a vacuum. And new-age concept-based tools, while often quite effective at targeting documents based on subject matter or concept, are technologically hard to explain and, as a result, hard to defend. Data analytics adds testing and analysis to keyword-based search, providing litigators with more accuracy and defensibility ' often at a much lower cost.

A new department centering on key cases.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decided that a Florida federal district court, rather than a Mexican court, should hear a suit by one Spanish-language broadcaster against another for tortious interference with a soap-opera actor's contract.

Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.

Recent cases in e-commerce law and in the e-commerce industry.