Objections Are Gifts: Don’t Try to Crush Them - Cerebral Selling
Top reps don't see objections as obstacles to be crushed but rather gifts, providing valuable opportunities to move deals forward. Here's how.| Cerebral Selling
After in camera review of 46 documents, the court in Burge v. Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, Ltd., 2025 WL 2846688 (D. Kans. Oct. 7, 2025), defined and applied the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege and required production of previously-redacted information. Under the crime-fraud exception, communications with counsel in furtherance of a crime […]| E-Discovery LLC
Top reps don't see objections as obstacles to be crushed but rather gifts, providing valuable opportunities to move deals forward. Here's how.| Cerebral Selling
Deamonte Spencer was convicted of murder and handgun charges. Among the evidentiary errors alleged on appeal was a challenge to authentication of printouts of profiles of Instagram pages. The Appellate Court of Maryland rejected the challenges and affirmed. Spencer v. State, 2025 WL 2741459 (Apl. Ct. Md. Sep. 26, 2025)(unreported). A local […]| E-Discovery LLC
Singleton v. Mazhari, 2025 WL 2736530 (D. Md. Sep. 29, 2025)(Austin, J.), covers a lot of ground. This blog addresses only two of the covered issues: (1) when is a motion for protective order untimely; and, (2) when is the requirement to meet and confer before filing such a motion waived as […]| E-Discovery LLC
In Rutherford v. Central Bank of Kansas City, 2025 WL 2432218, at *6-7 (W.D. Wash. Aug. 21, 2025), one of several issues was whether a litigant must produce information that was already in possession of the opponent’s counsel from other litigation. The court held that duplicative production was unn| E-Discovery LLC
In Singleton v. Mazhari, 2024 WL 4644644 (D. Md. Oct. 30, 2024)(Austin, J.), non-party TEDCO’s blanket privilege and work product objections to a subpoena were denied; however, it lived to fight another day because the denial was without prejudice to file supported objections after a “meet and confe| E-Discovery LLC
In 1968, the movie “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave” was released. Like Dracula, despite being long since buried, boilerplate “general objections” keep popping up in what sometimes looks like the children’s game of “Whac a Mole.” It is difficult to understand why the message about boilerplate “| E-Discovery LLC
