Deposition Tactics – Obstructionist Litigation
By Hayes Hunt and Arthur Fritzinger With fewer trials and an increasing focus on using the discovery process to leverage a favorable settlement or resolution, it is common for litigation counsel to be...
View ArticleLawyer’s Duty to Preserve Social Media Evidence
By Hayes Hunt and Jeffrey Monhait Lawyers must take “appropriate” steps to preserve their clients’ potentially relevant and discoverable social media evidence. That is the key take-away from an ethics...
View ArticleYour Client is Hacked and Personal Information is Leaked Online – Now What?
By Hayes Hunt and Jillian Thornton You are general counsel to a company, and your CEO steps into your office, clutching his iPhone in one hand and wiping sweat from his brow with the other, and tells...
View ArticleInvestigating Employee Wrongdoing
By Hayes Hunt and Arthur Fritzinger Companies in every industry—private and public—struggle with the difficult task of promptly identifying employee wrongdoing and responding appropriately. The...
View ArticleIf You Uncover Potential Juror Bias, Do You Tell The Court? Yes
By Hayes Hunt, Thomas G. Wilkinson & Thomas M. O’Rourke On the eve of a criminal trial, you decide to Google the names of a few prospective jurors. One appears to have been suspended from the...
View ArticleCrime-Fraud Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege – Facebook’s Lawsuit
Hayes Hunt and Michael Zabel The crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege: As an attorney, you may not anticipate it applying to your emails, your letters or your advice to your client. But...
View ArticleHow to Protect Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege – Defense Fails in Sex...
By Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr. and Alexa L. Sebia Last month, a Pennsylvania federal judge rejected a company’s claim to attorney-client privilege as an obstacle to pursuit of a sex discrimination suit...
View ArticleTicket to Sue – Pennsylvania’s Registration Requirement for Foreign Business...
By: Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr. and Thomas M. O’Rourke Consider the following scenario: You represent a foreign corporation in a breach of contract action in Pennsylvania state court. Your client is...
View ArticlePrivacy Breaches and Your Business
by Calli Padilla and Jason Bonk There is no more important time than now—perhaps even yesterday—to understand the critical importance of implementing, enforcing and training on policies reflecting best...
View ArticleThe Cuban Casualties Escaping Obama’s Notice
By Hayes Hunt and Tom Leonard Milagros Maria Del Pino Suarez has a request for President Obama: While you’re in Cuba, please ask Raul Castro where her father, Rafael Del Pino-who was hanged in a regime...
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