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Assessing Witness Credibility—Is it Really Just “Opinion”?

Five “credibility assessment factors” to help determine witness reliability, especially when one witness contradicts another, to help the investigator assess the degree to which a witness’s statement should be relied upon in reaching a conclusion.

Microsoft Loses Third Round Of Battle Against Extra-Territorial Warrants

If an appeals court upholds a closely-watched privacy case that ordered Microsoft to hand over e-mails stored in Ireland to the U.S. government, it could have significant implications for all U.S. businesses that store customer data overseas.

Five Tips For Minimizing The Risk Of Class Actions

Compliance is the standard and irrefutable advice for avoiding class action litigation, but ShepphardMullin attorneys have put a different slant […]

Tenth Circuit: “False” Disclosure Opinions Not Actionable

The Tenth Circuit has joined a number of other circuits in affirming that a false statement in an offering document […]

Mississippi AG Defends Hack Medical ‘Expert’

Medical examiner Steven Hayne has been called to testify in thousands of Mississippi cases, though legal groups have raised major […]

Lawyers Can Use Judicial Praise In Ads, Appeals Court Rules

If a judge has glowing praise for a lawyer, that lawyer has the First Amendment right to use the endorsement […]

Barneys To Pay $525K In Racial Profiling Case

Barney’s New York has agreed to pay $525,000 to end a nine-month New York State Attorney General investigation into allegations […]

Billionaire Suing Google, Claiming He’s Defamed By Autocomplete Results

A billionaire tycoon has been given the green light to sue Google for the autocomplete results that appear when searching […]

District Court Finds Coverage For Restitution Agreed-To In A Settlement

Insurers often deny coverage for restitution on the basis of a 2001 precedent that ruled they could do so on […]

Apple, Samsung Drop Foreign Patent Suits, But U.S. Litigation Will Continue

Apple and Samsung Electronics announced they were dropping patent litigation in Germany, Australia and Japan, but would continue litigation within […]

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