2025

AI Blog: Pros of Trusting AI Cons of Trusting AI For instance, if you ask a language model to summarize a news article and it provides information not present in the article, that’s a hallucination. It’s a situation where the AI thinks something would please the user and it ‘fills

  Understanding Cease and Desist Letters A cease and desist letter is a formal document that demands an individual or organization stop engaging in a specific activity or behavior. This letter is often used to address intellectual property infringement, defamation, harassment, or other unlawful actions. In this blog, we’ll delve

  I have handled several cases in which the evidence seems lacking, especially at first. Sometimes all that is needed is for the attorney or client or other professional to write a narrative. This can get linked to evidence ‘dumps’, as having tens of thousands of pages of bank statements

When one starts an expert engagement the attorneys typically send a case file to the expert. Usually the file contains some pleadings, various discovery and other items. Hopefully the complaint, a reply (though these are sometimes very bare-bones) and a case status report are present. Later, a trial brief or

So why did I chose to go to law school in recent years? Some was personal-concern over my career, and the state of affairs in the US and the world. And some was business-I thought I had already learned a lot about the law as a result of being an expert

Law blog: Depending on the company, the officers and directors can comprise the same people who serve in both capacities. However, there is often confusion about the differences between officers and directors and the responsibilities they each perform. It is because they often work closely together. But they have different

Lately I’ve had 3 cases move forward to trial without a deposition of my expert opinions/reports. This is an interesting trend so I thought I’d examine it further. Typically I do work on a case, write a report, with either a damage calculation or valuation, if appropriate. Then I’m deposed

Bates Law Firm is pleased to announce that Robert Bates has passed the California Bar exam and as of May 12 is now a licensed Attorney. Mr. Bates will continue to provide financial expert witness services. He will also work part-time in the legal area on areas of lower complexity.

Litigation  Litigation is any proceeding in which two opposing parties initiated to defend or enforce a legal right. And this involves every activity before, during, and after legal action. Business litigation is a specialization of law that is used to resolve business disputes when negotiation and arbitration proceedings can’t solve

In many disputes, the clients have lived with their dispute/issue for a long time- sometimes years. They know the ins and outs of the facts and the party they are opposed to. It is important for lawyers (and experts) to try to get as much information from the parties as