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Angelo Spinola | Littler Mendelson P.C.

Editor: Why are wage and hour class actions so prevalent? Spinola: The FLSA was enacted in 1938, but there wasn’t much litigation until about 15 years ago, after which the number of class action cases just exploded. In fact, 91 percent of today’s labor and employment class action...

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Laura A. Zubulake, Jay Brudz | FRONTEO (FKA UBIC NA)

Background Ms. Zubulake presented first. She was the plaintiff in the groundbreaking Zubulake case (dated from 2002 to 2005) that resulted in several legal opinions concerning electronic discovery (collectively “Zubulake”). Zubulake transformed the legal industry, established...

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Sasha L. Hefler, Chris Dale | FRONTEO (FKA UBIC NA)

Hefler: What is the problem as between U.S. and EU jurisdictions (and other global jurisdictions) when cross-border discovery is required? Dale: Put as briefly as possible, U.S. discovery is extremely broad compared with that of any other jurisdiction. Other common law countries which require...