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Litigation

Apr. 3, 2014

Lawyer sleuthing uncovers copying in expert reports

Attorneys are undermining the testimony of expert witnesses by conducting simple Google searches.


By Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Los Angeles litigator Mark C. Scarsi was getting ready to take a deposition in a patent infringement case when he noticed something odd in an expert witness' report. Supplemental information had been filed, and it didn't look the same as the original report - it had a heightened degree of specificity and the sentences were written in a different style.


Scarsi, a partner at Milbank, Tweed, ...

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