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Articles by Christa D. Wittenberg
Spring Cleaning for Your Business: Consider Your Document Retention Practices
Spring is the season for cleaning and organization—and it can also be a good time for businesses to revisit their document retention policies. For any combination of paper files, emails, and digital records, having a thoughtful business records management strategy can help reduce risk, control storage costs, and ensure compliance with legal requirements. As you review what to keep, archive, or dispose of, consider the following key issues.
Determining the Citizenship of Businesses
People forming a new business and selecting between the different entity types may be unaware of the impact the formation choice can have on future lawsuits. In particular, the citizenship of the business can be critical to determining whether a case belongs in state court or federal court when a dispute involves over $75,000.
A Litigation´s Reprise: Strategies for Requesting Attorney Fees
Attorney fee requests might seem to rest solely on each case's facts, but some unsettled legal considerations remain. Learn both the basics and possibilities for creative arguments here. After a trial is over, summary judgment awarded, or an appeal decided, the next battle looming on the horizon can sometimes be equally contentious.
Health Care Law Advisor Alert: Videoconferencing Considerations for Health Care Litigators
These days, litigators are routinely taking depositions and participating in hearings over Zoom or other videoconferencing apps and software. Frequently, these depositions and hearings are set up using videoconferencing systems chosen, hosted, and controlled by a court, an arbitrator, or a court reporter. There has been significant discussion and administrative guidance about the use of videoconferencing by health care providers since the pandemic began.
Final Thought: Check Assumptions at the Door
We all have implicit biases that influence our assumptions about the people we meet. With self-awareness and training, we can learn to keep our minds open and fight those assumptions. How can we tell whether someone who walks through the door is a lawyer, or a client, or a messenger, or someone who wandered into the wrong suite? We can’t. So let’s all stop assuming we can. Christa D. Wittenberg, Michigan 2012, practices with O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong & Laing S.C., Milwaukee.
Due Process in the Time of Coronavirus
A day does not go by without new, often menacing, developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. State and federal governments have strong tools to attempt to counter the pandemic, but individuals retain some due-process protections against potential overreach by elected and appointed officials. People around the world are in the midst of the most extreme public health emergency most of us have ever experienced.
When Measles Meets Due Process
An essential element of emergency preparedness is knowing the legality of possible responses. Learn here how governmental officials might legally respond if Wisconsin is hit with an outbreak of measles or another highly contagious disease.
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