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by Mark Adams Download the PDF: Orange County Business Journal: Employers (and Employees) Beware: Defamatory statements on the internet can be actionable in a court of law Social media is big and getting bigger by the minute. Although this form of communication is new, the risk of defamation liability to employers and employees is as old […]
The director’s friend: The business judgment rule By Mark Adams Reprinted with permission, Orange County Business Journal, August 27, 2012 A corporate director is entrusted to act for and on behalf of the corporation and its shareholders in managing the corporation’s affairs. A director assumes fiduciary duties and is expected to act with honesty, loyalty, […]
Losing the expectation of privacy bit by bit, byte by byte By Mark Adams Published in The Bottom Line, the State Bar of California’s law Practice Management and Technology Section, as well as Hospitality Net, Hotel Online and ehotelier.com. Download a PDF of the article: Losing the expectation of privacy bit by bit, byte by byte […]
Mark Adams is a contributing author to the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s publication, Witness Preparation (PBI No. 2011 – 6846). Mark contributed the Section, "Expert Testimony, A Trial Lawyer’s Checklist" which covers selecting an expert, engaging an expert, preparing for testifying, direct examination at trial, and cross examination at trial. See the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s publications […]
U.S. Supreme Court Limits Class Action Lawsuits The heavy hand of litigation v. the invisible hand of the marketplace This article by Mark Adams was originally published in the Orange County Business Journal. Download the PDF: Orange County Business Journal–US Supreme Court Limits Class Action Lawsuits On April 27, 2011, the United States Supreme Court […]
JMBM OC Litigation Newsletter Spring 2011 Expert Testimony: A Trial Lawyer’s Checklist How to ensure your expert is a gold mine, not a land mine Download the PDF: JMBM OC Litigation Newsletter–Expert Testimony Winning or losing your case can pivot on expert testimony. Experts can also have a huge impact on a settlement. So why […]
An article by Mark Adams titled "Preparing Your Witness" on how to prepare an expert witness for testimony, was published in The Recorder’s special report on Litigation. This article was also featured in Law Technology News.
An article by Mark Adams on jury selection, "The Science and Art of Advocacy," was published as a special feature in the April 2011 edition of Orange County Lawyer. In the article, Mark details successful strategies for choosing members of a jury and discusses why jury selection is an important part of trying a case […]
Orange County Litigation Newsletter, Fall 2010 Size Them Up: Picking – or Rather, “Excluding” – a Jury Clarence Darrow, one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians, wrote in “How to Pick A Jury,” Esquire, May 1936: “It is obvious that if a litigant discovered one of his dearest friends in the jury […]
Pause Before Sending: Using Unenforceable Non-Competes can be Very Costly Had STAAR Surgical Company (Nasdaq: STAA) (“STAAR”) obtained sound legal advice before it sent three letters to its competitors, STAAR might have saved itself $11.4 million. In separate, two-month long jury trials, our trial team including myself, Eudeen Chang and Monica Vu of Jeffer Mangels, […]
