OPINION: Via Duke, Companies Are Shaping Discovery

Law360, New York (November 4, 2015, 2:41 PM EST) -- Recently, the New York Times reported that corporations in the food industry have paid academics to lobby for and against genetically modified food. A similar phenomenon is happening in our legal system in the battleground around controlling litigation costs.

A recent example involves a new change to the scope of discovery — in other words, the information that is exchanged between parties in a case. Parties can win or lose based on the information that is disclosed. This issue has become hot as corporations argue that...
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