Guides to search evidence in litigation
An entry on this site answers one question about one rule or one kind of dispute. A guide runs the sequence you are actually in. The three pillars below track the order a search matter arrives in: whether the opinion will be heard at all, what has to survive before that question is even reached, and whether the loss can be proved once it is.
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Is Search Testimony Admissible?
4 guidesThe short answer, the questions a court actually decides, and where each part of the admissibility fight gets worked out.
The fact of damage against the amount, the three accepted damages approaches, and why search is harder than most valuation settings
Building the Evidentiary Record
3 guidesFour steps in one order — preserve, capture, authenticate, summarize — and the point in each where the search record is usually lost.
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Every rule, method and dispute type named in these guides has its own entry in the reference.