Electronic Discovery Law

Posted at 9:24 AM on September 20, 2007 by K&L Gates

Qualcomm Firms Seek to Pierce Privilege

From The Recorder by Jessie Seyfer via Law.com:

"Attorneys who once represented Qualcomm Inc. in its ill-fated federal patent case against Broadcom Corp. have asked a judge to pierce their client's privileged communications.

With the threat of formal sanctions bearing down on them, lawyers at Heller Ehrman and Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder -- Qualcomm's former litigation counsel -- are asking for a rare exception to privilege so they can explain to the judge how their side failed to produce hundreds of thousands of relevant documents during discovery in the San Diego case. "

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Electronic Discovery Law - January 8, 2008 4:59 PM

Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp., No. 05-CV-1958-B (BLM), United States District Court for the Southern District of California On Monday, January 7, 2008, United States Magistrate Judge Barbara L. Major issued her Order on Broadcom’s Motion for Sa...

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