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Awhile back I gave a presentation called "Discovery Beyond Email: Your Future Headache," for best practices for preserving and collecting chat platform documents, like from Slack or Signal.

As we prepare to enter the holiday season, many of us are reflecting on the things we are most thankful for. I am thankful for my relatively sane friends, my rambunctious cats, and, of course, hyphenated noun phrases. What, you may ask, is a hyphenated noun phrase? It is a phrase consisting of hyphenated words that create an adjective, followed by a noun. For example: third-party defendant. A hyphen combines the words “third” and “party” to form an adjective (“third-party”) that describes the noun, “defendant.”

The Ninth Circuit Edition

Another banger summit from the Video Game Bar Association! It's tough to pick my favorite presentations, but:

The plaintiff in the case is Bizarre Academia, LLC.

By Chad Colton

Many mediators will tell you that the mediations most likely to fail to reach a settlement are those that are required by a contract. When the parties’ dispute is subject to a contractual condition that they must participate in mediation before commencing a formal lawsuit or arbitration, parties often treat the mediation as a necessary evil, as a box to check before getting serious.

During an election party last night, we discussed a topic that often divides Americans: the correct use of the adverb literally. Sadly, literally is one of our language’s most commonly misused words—and it is up to you, my fellow Americans, to help save it.

How is Roblox going to prosecute a suit against a bunch of unknown people?

Ordinarily, by the time parties show up for a mediation, they have already spent months or years developing and staking out their respective positions. There will have been proverbial chest pounding and other bombastic exchanges. Trust between the parties that might have existed before the dispute has completely eroded. Now, the parties hate not only their opponent but also their opponent’s lawyer.