Litigation

Healthcare

Eric G. Lasker | Hollingsworth LLP

On January 8, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Milward v. Acuity Specialty Prods. Grp., Inc., 639 F.3d 11 (1st Cir. 2011) and let stand a First Circuit holding admitting a plaintiff expert’s causation opinion resting solely on his self-proclaimed “weight of the...

Technology

Joey Seeber, Shaun Yeh | Level 2 Review

In early June, the eyebrows of the e-discovery world were raised when J-M Manufacturing Company filed a legal malpractice suit in California state court against a premier international law firm, McDermott Will & Emery. Widely dubbed as the "world's first e-discovery malpractice...

Technology

Theodore C. Max | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

What Is Reality? In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel, Snow Crash,[1] humans battle each other as avatars in the “Metaverse,” the collective product of online shared three‑dimensional space.[2] While Stephenson's “Metaverse,” created by all...