brAttorney General Eric Holder Jr. said Tuesday he would require additional training for prosecutors to reinforce their understanding of rules that govern discovery in criminal cases, following the advice of a federal judge who recently dismissed the government’s indictment against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. Holder said the DOJ will also create a working group [...]

brFailure to prepare for the meet-and-confer conference to deal with ESI is a lost opportunity to negotiate a discovery plan that allows flexibility in the form of production, says attorney Jeffrey A. Adams. An unprepared attorney may incur unnecessary expenses and possible sanctions. a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=’http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202429798084rss=newswire’Read more…/abr

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brThe 1st Circuit expects a big crowd today for arguments in a suit involving a student accused of illegally downloading songs. The case’s merits will not be at issue; instead, lawyers will be arguing about whether a federal judge overstepped her authority when she granted Courtroom View Network permission to webcast proceedings in the case. [...]

brData-mining pioneer Henry Asher is being sued by a Florida-based arm of database operator LexisNexis for allegedly reneging on a noncompete agreement as part of his 2004 sale of Seisint Technologies for $775 million. LexisNexis Risk and Information Analytics Group is seeking an injunction against Asher and his companies and demanding about $300 million in [...]

brWhen the CEO of Monte Carlo Productions in Atlanta got a letter from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences demanding that he stop throwing parties that included giant replicas of the Academy’s famous Oscar statuette as props, he thought it was the biggest joke that ever was. But the Academy wasn’t amused, and [...]