Litigation

Litigation

Miranda Schiller | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

The Supreme Court heard argument in Halliburton II last week.[1] At issue is whether the Court should overrule the fraud on the market presumption that it adopted in its 1988 decision, Basic Inc. v. Levinson,[2] which obviated the need for plaintiffs in securities fraud class actions to...

Litigation

Trent Livingston, Bobby R. Williams, Jr. | iDiscovery Solutions

Let’s face it – suggest a litigation readiness plan to any corporate officer and you might as well be trying to convince him of an impending zombie invasion. While many of us in the legal space understand the importance of such a plan, business generally does not respond to...

Litigation

Lauren Fox | Leader & Berkon, LLP

Spoliation motions, a common litigation strategy, are at “an all-time high,”[1] and corporate litigants are engaging in costly over-preservation of electronically stored information (“ESI”) to avoid the risk of sanctions. In Sekisui Am. Corp. v. Hart, 945 F.Supp.2d 494 (S....