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January 29, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Minimizing the Potential Risks of Multiparty Arbitration

For a variety of businesses, both large and small, arbitration is considered an attractive way to resolve disputes. Arbitration often is cheaper and faster than full-blown litigation, which

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January 28, 2014 | Legaltech News

New Standards Set for Credit Card Payments

You can take your credit cards out of the freezer, warm them up, and safely peruse your favorite online wares and retail shops, because the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council h

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January 27, 2014 | National Law Journal

Courts Struggle to Define Spoliation of Evidence

Many lessons can be taken away from the electronic data discovery (EDD) opinions handed down by the courts during 2013. First, be careful not to rely on the federal taxation-of-costs

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January 22, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Comdata Settles Antitrust Suit with Independent Truck Stops

Lawyers representing a proposed class of about 4,000 independent truck stops announced Tuesday that they've reach a settlement in their antitrust lawsuit against leading trucker fleet pa

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January 15, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

Reed Smith and Wilentz Goldman Sued For Allegedly Bungling Business Sale

Two prominent law firms—Reed Smith and Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer—are embroiled in New Jersey court litigation with a former client who accuses them of “a frenz

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Wellogix, Inc. v. Accenture, L.L.P.

Publication Date: 2014-01-15
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Date Filed: 2014-01-15
Court: 5th Cir.
Judge: HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge.
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Case Number: 11-20816

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Before DeMOSS,

January 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

More Women Partners at Pa. Firms, but Overall Ranks Stagnant

Even as the percentage of women partners has increased over the last decade, female lawyers continue to make up less than one-third of the attorney population at Pennsylvania's 100 large

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Shapiro v. Henson

Publication Date: 2014-01-09
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Date Filed: 2014-01-09
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Edward C. Reed, Jr., Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: N. Randy Smith and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges, and Gordon J. Quist, Senior District Judge.**
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tara Twomey, National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center, San Jose, California, for Amicus Curiae National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.
for defendant: Brian D. Shapiro, Law Office of Brian D. Shapiro, LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada, for Appellant.
Case Number: No. 11-16019

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 185 BRIAN DAVID SHAPIRO, Trustee of the bankruptcy estate of Barbara Melinda Henson, Appellant

January 8, 2014 | Legaltech News

2013 E-Discovery Case Highlights

Many lessons can be taken away from the 2013 electronic data discovery opinions. First, be careful not to rely on the federal taxation-of-costs statute to recoup all EDD expenditures.

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In re Garcia

Publication Date: 2014-01-02
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Date Filed: 2014-01-02
Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Starr Babcock, Lawrence C. Yee, Richard J. Zanassi, Rachel S. Grunberg; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Robert E. Palmer, Joshua A. Jessen, Drew A. Harbur; Mark A. Perry; Minami Tamaki, Donald K. Tamaki, Minette A. Kwok, Phillip M. Zackler; Kevin R. Johnson; Bill Onh Hing; Bryan Springmeyer; Kerr & Wagstaffe and James N. Wagstaffe for Respondent Committee of Bar Examiners of State Bar of California.
for defendant: Fishkin & Slatter, Jerome Fishkin, Lindsay K. Slatter, Samuel C. Bellicini; Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker and Robert Cooper for Petitioner Sergio C. Garcia. Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Sate Solicitor General, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jonathan Wolff, Acting Chief Assistant Attorney General, Douglas J. Woods, Assistant Attorney General, Rochelle C. East, Tamar Pachter, Daniel J. Powell and Ross C. Moody, Deputy Attorneys General, for California Attorney General as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner Sergio C. Garcia.
Case Number: No. S202512

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 62 In re SERGIO C. GARCIA on Admission. No. S202512 In the Supreme Court o