Business Law
Dec. 5, 2025
Admitting records in business trials
Business cases turn on getting documents into evidence, so trial lawyers must beat hearsay objections by knowing what counts as operative documents, party admissions, or admissible business records -- and laying the foundation early.
Jay M. Spillane
Founder
Spillane Trial Group PLC
468 N Camden Dr # 2
Beverly Hills , CA 90210
Phone: (424) 217-5980
Fax: (888) 590-1683
Email: jspillane@spillaneplc.com
UC Hastings COL; San Francisco CA
A business trial lawyer's case lives and dies on getting
communications and records into evidence. While injury cases may focus on
accident or surgical reconstruction, photos and videos, medical records and
lost wages, business evidence weighs toward communications, contracts,
financial statements and expert damage calculations. The challenge is getting
those records into evidence over objections that they constitute inadmissible
hearsay.
Let'...
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